With an area of 1614 square kilometers and a population of nearly 300,000 inhabitants, the province of Ragusa is the smallest of Sicily. It occupies the south-eastern and largely directed towards the channel of Malta. Its territory has a hilly aspect: the mountainous and very sweet and always lower than the heights of 1,000 meters (the Iblei with 986 meters of Mount Lauro is the highest), the fertile lowland areas slope gently toward the coast low, sand and uniform, consisting of alluvial soil. There are many dry stone walls that articulated in the field of web love, bordering fields and pastures. Flora, with the resulting differences related to altimetry, and mainly Mediterranean oaks, plane trees, olive and carob are flanked to oleanders, figs, acanti and reeds. The plateau Ibleo, usually barren, buys into the beautiful spring colors in a scene from the wild beauty and severe. Very characteristic are the so-called "cave" or "canyon", deep ravines and small streams have carved into the limestone of the plateau, mainly format.
