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Encyclopedia Britannica



MODICA

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 642 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MODICA , a town of Sicily, in the province of Syracuse, 57 M. W.S.W. of Syracuse by
rail
  and 33 M. direct. Pop. (1901), 48,962. It lies on a hill between two valleys; the hill, crowned by the
church
  of S. Giorgio, reconstructed in the 17th
century
 , was the site of the Sicel town of Motyca, while the
modern
 
part
  of the town extends along the river Mauro, an inundation of which did much damage in September 1902. Remains of megalithic buildings, apparently, however, houses of the
Byzantine
  period, are described in Notizie degli Scavi, 1896, 242 seq. Six miles to the
south
 -
east
  is the valley known as the Cava d'Ispica. with hundreds of grottoes cut in its rocky sides; of these only
few are Sicel tombs, the
majority
  being catacombs or open tombs of the early Christian and
Byzantine
  periods, or even cave-dwellings of the latter age.
See P. Orsi in Notizie degli Scavi (1905), 431.


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