Main sights Modica has maintained some of the most beautiful architecture in Sicily, in the Sicilian Baroque style. The city possesses a large Baroque Cathedral dedicated to San Giorgio. There is another church dedicated to San Pietro in Modica Bassa, featuring a principal façade crowned by a typical Sicilian Baroque belltower, 49 metres Economy The economy of the area once principally agricultural producing olives, carobs,legumes, cereals, and cattle; The city has now been joined by factories producing textiles, furniture and cars. Tourism is also an important industry to the area, since Modica entered the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002. Culture The eighteenth century saw Modica in the role of art and culture town In the nineteenth century, feudalism was abolished and Modica became a "bourgeois" town peopled by notables such as the writer and anthropologist Serafino Amabile Guastella Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea; along with surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, Sicily has a rich and unique culture, The terrain of inland Sicily is mostly hilly and intensively cultivated wherever it was possible.
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