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Culture and History / Travel to Noto, visa requirements / Get around / Noto attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Noto souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Noto nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get out- You may be looking for the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa, Japan.
Culture and History
Noto was once situated on Mount Alveria but destroyed by an earthquake in Val di Noto in 1693 and was rebuilt in another site in Baroque style.
Travel to Noto - Visa Requirements
Get there as a daytrip from Syracuse (1h15min by bus) or a stopover from Syracuse to Ragusa (1.5 hour), Gela, or Enna.
Tours and Getting around Noto
Noto tourist attractions and sightseeing
Noto is a world heritage site and billed as the most attractive of the Baroque towns in south east Sicily. In reality its a bit of a disappointment. Most of the significant buildings are closed and being restored (or not). It feels like there is not enough money available to bring Noto back to what it once was.
- Cathedral of Noto. [virtual tourThe Basilica stands on the summit of a magniloquent staircase consisting in three flights of steps dating back to the eighteenth century but restored at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The facade is closed off by two imposing bell towers and it is topped by two late eighteenth-century statues
- Via Nicolaci Infiorata of Noto. virtual tourExhibition which attracts thousands of tourists every year, the third Sunday of May. A street covered with splendid mosaics made with flower petals, in a corner dream. The event was founded twenty-eight years ago, this new painting technique allows teachers infioratori to make a flowered carpet along the way Nicolaci
Noto city tours
Noto souvenirs and shopping
- Caffè Sicilia Corso Vittorio Emanuele,125 Closed on Mondays (exept August and holidays)
marmelades, jams, honeys, biscotti, granite
Noto Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive
- Trattoria del Crocifisso, via Principe Umberto, 48. Tel: +39 0931 571151. Very good small restaurant of famiglia Baglieri. Very honest prices.
- Neas Ristorante, via Rocco Pirri, 30. Tel: +39 0931 573538. Nice restaurant and outdoor serving in little courtyard. Local seafood.
Noto nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs
Noto cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels and lodging
Get out
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