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This small village has a 14th-century castle of the Spanish Counts of Modica, who once ruled much of the region. It is best known for Bianco d’Alcamo, a white wine with DOC protection.
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Eastern Sicily is known for its production of these high-quality and richly flavoured nuts.
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Fig-filled nucatoli and citrus and honey torrone are displayed in a small, elegant shop located off Modica’s Corso. Their chocolate is still made using the ancient Aztec method of working the cocoa with sugar and spices.
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A classic pastry shop and bar offering a wide range of sweets, biscuits, breads, gelato and arancini (see Arancini). Sit in the elegant tearoom or on the pedestrianized street.
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A Sicilian fast-food treat, available in bars and from street vendors. Balls of rice are stuffed with a meaty tomato ragout, rolled in breadcrumbs, and fried. Their round, golden shapes resemble oranges (aranci ), hence their name.
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This village east of Palermo is now rather built up, but you can still see the elaborate Baroque villas built by Palermo’s nobility, when it was all citrus groves and orchards.
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Wear the latest fashions including high, spiked heels for girls and high, spiked hair for guys.
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Eighty per cent Catarratto with a dash of Damaschino, Grecanico and Trebbiano make up this dry and fruity white. Abundant production (more grapes are grown in Trapani than any other Sicilian province) made this the classic Sicilian white. The area from San Vito Lo Capo to Castellammare and inland to Alcamo and Calatafimi is under DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata ) protection.
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A snow-white pudding from Arab and Spanish days made with almond milk or cow’s milk and thickened with rice starch.
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Hard biscuits rolled in sesame seeds.
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