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Could you recommend sites and monuments that tourists should visit in the town of Punta Secca.

UNESCO
The eight towns of south-eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli were rebuilt after 1693, in the same place or near the towns existing at the time of the earthquake of that 'year. They represent a considerable collective undertaking, successfully brought to a high level of architectural and artistic fulfillment. Kept inside of the late Baroque, also describe specific innovations in urban planning and construction of cities.

Monuments reported for inclusion in the list of UNESCO heritage are:
A Ragusa Palazzo Bertini - Bishop's Palace - Church of St. John the Baptist - Palazzo Zacco.
A Ragusa: Church S. Maria delle Scale, Church S. Maria Idria, Chancellery Palace, Church SS souls in purgatory, the Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, St. Joseph's Church, the Cathedral of St. George, Church S. Filippo Blacks, Church S. Maria del Gesù, Palazzo La Rocca, Palazzo Sortino Trono, Battle Palace, Palazzo Cosentini.

In Modica: Church of St. George and St. Peter's Church.

A Scicli Palazzo Beneventano, via Mormino Pen, Church of St. Teresa, St. John the Evangelist Church of St. Michael the Archangel.

A Noto Church of St. Clare, the Church of the Holy Cross, Church of St. Dominic, Montevergine Church, Church St. Mary of Carmel, church and convent of St. Francis immaculate, St. Nicolo Church, Church and convent of SS. Salvatore, the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, a former Jesuit College, Church S. Maria Arch, Ducezio Palace, Palazzo Impellizzeri, Palazzo Landolina, Rau Palazzo della Ferla, Palace Trigona, Palazzo Battaglia.

In Catania: Piazza Duomo, Via dei Crociferi, the Abbey of St. Agatha, Collegiate, Benedictine Monastery of St. Nicholas Rena, Palazzo Biscari.

A Caltagirone Chiesa Santa Maria del Monte, Church of S. Giuliano Apostle, St. Joseph's Church, Church of S. Domenico, the Church of SS. Salvatore and Benedictine Monastery, St. Clare and Santa Rita Church and Monastery of the Poor Clares, the Church of Jesus and former Jesuit College, Church of St Stephen, the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Capitanale Court, Municipal Museum, Tondo Vecchio, bridge St. Francis.

A Palazzolo Acreide: St. Sebastian's Church, Church of St. Peter and Paul.

A Militello Val Di Catania Church of St. Nicholas and St. Saviour Church of St. Mary of the Star.

Could you recommend less renowned places, in the town of Punta Secca and in its surroundings?

Pantalica and Anapo Valley
Built in the thirteenth century. B. C. by the Sicilians as a cemetery, Pantalica reached so much splendor to be the object of desire of the Greeks who, after having conquered, expanded the existing caves with new buildings. After dark the Roman period, Pantalica resources thanks to the Byzantine Empire and its glorious history continued until the advent of the Arabs who, after helping to strengthen it economically, attended the last breaths of life of the people allocated. From the eleventh century. A. D. the place he earned the nickname "City of the Dead", epithet, this, justified by the presence of 5000 artificial cave tombs dug in deep rocky ridges. The brilliant Byzantine period remain four villages and three rock churches. Overlooking the valley the Anaktoron, the Mycenaean palace ncora now under study.
Along the old railway line Siracusa - Vizzini, is in Sortino - Cassaro, extends the Natural Reserve of Valle Orienteta dell'Anapo. The name of the valley is given by the river that runs through it, the Anapo precisely (the word, according to some archaic Greek means invisible) and is one of the largest nurseries Platani Eastern Sicily.
Sortino
Arranged on the hill Moncaita (or Aita), surrounded by Vallati leading to the necropolis of Pantalica, lies the charming town of Sortino, treasure chest of art, beauty and traditions unchanged over time. .
  Ferla
Lying on the slopes of Monte Lauro, Ferla (from "ferrule" a plant widespread in the place) is the door to Pantalica, also because it has the only way forward in the car leading all'Anaktoron. According to the sources still uncertain the place was inhabited as early as the first Greek (VIII BC), then Saracen, Lombard and Norman (IX - XII century AD.). Official testimony of the place make it traces the origin to 1269. Like the other towns was destroyed in 1693 and rebuilt in the flat area of the existing village, becoming a small jewel of the Baroque of the Val di Noto.

Which is the most suitable means of transport to travel in the town of Punta Secca and surrounding areas?.

Is definitely the machine.

>Which is the most traditional food in Punta Secca? What are the traditional foods of Christmas, Easter and Carnival?.

The province of Ragusa, Sicily as a whole, has been a meeting place of different cultures such as the Greek and Arab and Italic and Norman.
This has a great influence in the culture of Ragusa and, in particular, the food culture of Ragusa.
Even for this province, local products handed down by tradition are really countless, preparations based on fish, typical of all Sicily, focus mostly on the coast of the district Ragusa, while inland there are numerous recipes meat, cheese and vegetables.
Preparations more details and characteristics of this area are concentrated in the hinterland where also focuses a certain richness and variety of raw materials, from the meat of the farms, cheese made from the milk of the same leaders, grain up to the vegetables.