Ragusa
Ragusa is a former province in Sicily, Italy, that shares the southeastern tip of the triangular island with Syracuse. Its Baroque towns are a World Heritage Site, and it offers coastal resorts, too.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Ragusa and Modica.
Ragusa
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Ragusa is a city in Sicily, Italy. It's the provincial capital, with some 73,000 inhabitants. Along with 7 other nearby cities, it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Modica
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Modica is a city and municipality in the Province of Ragusa, Sicily, southern Italy. The city is situated in the Hyblaean Mountains. It has 53,413 inhabitants.
Scicli
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Scicli is a small town among the Iblei hills in the Ragusa province on the southeast of Sicily. It is one of the "Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto" listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Pozzallo and Chiaramonte Gulfi.
Pozzallo
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Pozzallo is a city near the southern tip of Sicily in Italy. It's the port for ferries to Malta. Pozzallo is a major summer tourist destination, with two beaches holding a Blue Flag award, as of Apr 2023, for water quality, environmental education and information, environmental management, and safety and other services.
Chiaramonte Gulfi
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Chiaramonte Gulfi is a hilltop town in the province of Ragusa, in southeastern Sicily. Known as the "Balcony of Sicily", it offers sweeping views over the Ippari Valley, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, Mount Etna to the north, and even the distant Erei Mountains to the west.
Kamarina
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Kamarina is an ancient archaeological site on the southern coast of Sicily, near modern-day Scoglitti. Once a powerful Greek colony, it was founded by Syracuse in 599 BC and played a key role in the island's turbulent classical history.
Marina di Ragusa
Marina di Ragusa, also known as Mazzarelli, is a southern Italian village and hamlet of Ragusa, a municipality seat of the homonym province, Sicily. In 2025 it had a population of 7,000 which during the summer rises to more than 60,000.
Ragusa
- Type: former province of Italy with 321,000 residents
- Description: former province of Italy
- Also known as: “Province of Ragusa”, “provincia di Ragusa”, “Provincia Regionale di Ragusa”, and “Ragusa province”
- Neighbors: Caltanissetta, Catania, and Syracuse
- Location: Sicily, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Ragusa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة راغوزا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة رغوس”
- Aragonese: “Provincia de Rausa”
- Armenian: “Ռագուզա”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Ragusa”
- Azerbaijani: “Raquza əyaləti”
- Azerbaijani: “Raquza”
- Basque: “Ragusako probintzia”
- Bavarian: “Provinz Ragusa”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Рагуза”
- Belarusian: “Рагуза (правінцыя)”
- Belarusian: “Рагуза”
- Belarusian: “Рагуса”
- Bengali: “রাগুসা-এর প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “proviñs Ragusa”
- Breton: “Proviñs Ragusa”
- Bulgarian: “Рагуза”
- Catalan: “província de Ragusa”
- Catalan: “Província de Ragusa”
- Cebuano: “Ragusa”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای راگوزا”
- Chinese: “Ragusa Séng”
- Chinese: “拉古萨省”
- Chinese: “拉古薩省”
- Croatian: “Ragusa”
- Czech: “Provincie Ragusa”
- Danish: “Province of Ragusa”
- Danish: “Ragusa”
- Dutch: “Ragusa”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Ragusa”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Raguzo”
- Estonian: “Ragusa provints”
- Finnish: “Ragusan maakunta”
- French: “Province de Raguse”
- French: “Raguse”
- Galician: “Provincia de Ragusa”
- Georgian: “რაგუზის პროვინცია”
- German: “IT-RG”
- German: “Provinz Ragusa”
- German: “Ragusa (Provinz)”
- German: “Ragusa”
- Greek: “Επαρχία της Ραγκούζας”
- Greek: “Ραγκούζα”
- Gujarati: “રેગુસા પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “רגוזה”
- Hindi: “रागुसा के प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Ragusa megye”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Ragusa”
- Interlingua: “Provincia de Ragusa”
- Interlingua: “provincia Ragusa”
- Irish: “Cúige Ragusa”
- Italian: “Libero Consorzio Comunale di Ragusa”
- Italian: “provincia di Ragusa”
- Italian: “Provincia di Ragusa” (historical)
- Italian: “Ragusano”
- Japanese: “ラグーザ県”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Ragusa”
- Kannada: “ರಗುಸಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kirghiz: “Рагуза”
- Korean: “라구사 현”
- Korean: “라구사도”
- Ladin: “Provinzia de Ragusa”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Raguza”
- Latin: “Consortium Liberum Municipale Ragusiense”
- Latin: “Provincia Ragusiensis”
- Latin: “Provincia Regionalis Ragusina”
- Latvian: “Raguzas province”
- Ligurian: “provinsa de Ragusa”
- Lithuanian: “Ragūzos provincija”
- Lombard: “Provincia de Ragusa”
- Lombard: “Pruvincia de Ragusa”
- Macedonian: “Рагуза”
- Malay: “Wilayah Ragusa”
- Maltese: “Provinċja ta‘ Ragusa”
- Maltese: “Provinċja ta’ Ragusa”
- Marathi: “रागुसाचे प्रांत”
- Mazanderani: “وربانو-کوزیو-اوسولا اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ragusa Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ragusa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Ragusa”
- Norwegian: “Provinsen Ragusa”
- Norwegian: “Ragusa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Ragusa”
- Persian: “استان راگوسا”
- Piemontese: “Provincia ëd Ragusa”
- Polish: “Prowincja Ragusa”
- Portuguese: “Ragusa”
- Romanian: “Provincia Ragusa”
- Russian: “Рагуза”
- Scots: “Province o Ragusa”
- Serbian: “Рагуза”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ragusa”
- Sicilian: “Pruvincia di Rausa”
- Sinhala: “රගුසා පළාත”
- Slovenian: “IT-RG”
- Slovenian: “Pokrajina Ragusa”
- Slovenian: “provincia di Ragusa”
- South Azerbaijani: “راقوسا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Ragusa”
- Spanish: “Ragusa”
- Swedish: “Ragusa”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Ragusa”
- Tagalog: “Ragusa”
- Tamil: “ரகுசா மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “రగూసా ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “రగూసా రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดรากูซา”
- Turkish: “Ragusa ili”
- Turkish: “Ragusa”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Рагуза”
- Ukrainian: “Рагуза”
- Urdu: “صوبہ راگوزا”
- Uzbek: “Ragusa”
- Venetian: “Provincia de Raguxa”
- Vietnamese: “Ragusa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ragusa”
- Welsh: “Talaith Ragusa”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع ریگوسا”
- Wu Chinese: “拉古萨省”
- “Provinge de Ragusa”
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