This is the most beautiful place I have ever stayed, ever. It would be worth visiting Modica simply to spend a few days in this incredible apartment, with its beautiful garden, its incredibly lovely views, its sense of history, or beauty, of tranquility... oh goodness I could go on. The pictures are accurate but they don't really do this place justice. The apartment doesn't have a road outside, but wide steps leading downhill into the old part of Modica, and uphill towards the incredibly beautiful S. Georgio Chiesa (in our opinion lovelier than the cathedral in Ragusa). It is reached via a door that opens into a kind of communal outdoor hallway (if you've watched Montalbano you'll know the kind of thing) then up a few steps and through its own front door. The rooms are glorious, sparsely but beautifully furnished, with vaulted ceilings hung with incredible lights. The two main rooms have large, shuttered windows opening onto small balconies. The kitchen area is fabulously equipped, everything is exactly how you would want it to be. Caterina had kindly left us a bottle of delicious wine and some of the chocolate for which Modica is famous. We poured a glass of wine each, took it outside, looked at evening descending over the city below us, watched the lights coming on, it was a kind of Heaven. I can not recommend this place highly enough. It will break my heart if we don't go back. * I should also add that it's very easy to find the place where we were asked to meet Peppe, who couldn't have been more helpful. There is excellent wifi but it would be a crime to look at a computer when you could be looking at the view. And loads of wonderful art and history books. And lovely music. All in all a wonderful experience.