Metropolitan City of Palermo Metropolitan City of Palermo The Metropolitan City of Palermo () is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy. Its capital is the city of Palermo. It replaced the Province of Palermo and comprises the city of Palermo and other 82 municipalities ("comuni"). It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by regional law on 15 August 2015.. The Metropolitan City faces the Tyrrhenian Sea on the north, it while on the west it is bordered by the province of Trapani, on the south by the province of Agrigento and by that of Caltanissetta, to
Ragusa, Sicily Ragusa, Sicily Ragusa (, ; Sicilian: "Rausa"; Latin: "Ragusia") is a city and "comune" in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Ragusa, on the island of Sicily, with 73,288 inhabitants in 2016. It is built on a wide limestone hill between two deep valleys, Cava San Leonardo and Cava Santa Domenica. Together with seven other cities in the Val di Noto, it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The origins of Ragusa can be traced back to the 2nd millennium BC, when there were several Sicel settlements in the area. The current district of