The high point of a trip to Modica – quite literally as it's up in Modica Alta – is the Chiesa di San Giorgio, one of Sicily's most extraordinary baroque churches. Considered Rosario Gagliardi's great masterpiece, it stands in isolated splendour at the top of a majestic 250-step staircase, its sumptuous three-tiered facade towering above the medieval alleyways of the historic centre.
The glitzy interior, a sunlit kaleidoscope of silvers, golds and egg-shell blues, displays all the hallmarks of early-18th-century Sicilian baroque.
