i wandered around the hilltop old city of ragusa in southern sicily for a few hours. it was the day after we had experienced the hottest day ever recorded in european history, so ann needed to get some ac at a mall. ragusa was an interesting place to explore mostly because of its hilltop topography and viewpoints – it is also famous for its church and for being completely destroyed by an earthquake in the late 1600s, and subsequently rebuilt.