Noto is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and it's a beautiful, idyllic town, which there is little notes, that it was built on schedule, strictly on a rectangular grid and everything with light travertine. That they start the 18. Century was built, is evident from the baroque construction. It is to me personally almost too smart and too straight, than that it affects me personally. Fast so, as if the architects have deliberately put the city in the most beautiful clothes, without regard to character or personality.

Hingegen Noto Antica, the city proper was 1693 destroyed by an earthquake and thus built up again elsewhere. It is located a few kilometers away and wants to get you drive at a monastery “Santa Maria Arch” past, that since the 18 Century is no longer used as a monastery. The monastery acts, like an old 2nd world war film from the ride there and the panoramic views you get the feeling, that equal a few German SUVs could come around the corner and the monastery would be the scene of a liberation of.

Noto Antica also ideal for climbing and exploring. A watchtower seems to be still recognizable and compared with a necropolis was found, a city of the dead in the Middle Ages. In summer, this place seems to be a popular destination for Sicilians, because open grills available. Something macabre, considering, where eaten.

If out of season so we are also driven to the beach and Lido di Noto is probably one of the few sandy beaches (Vulkaninsel!). With 20 Degrees and sunshine can not go into the sea to, but sitting in the sand and enjoy the sun.