Modica, the famous city of the Shire, it is divided into neighborhoods that are well distinguishable orographically.
The best known – Modica Bassa – is the one born on the sides of the streams that run through it and on the related ridges.
Historically the first settlement was born in the upper part which today lies in a state of abandonment and marginalization especially with regards to the economic activities of the city.

Today the high City it is at the same time the popular and noble soul of the city. Walking through its streets and its numerous alleys you can still see life pulsating but above all a sense of deprivation of this neighborhood from its essence, the cultural one.
Modica Alta has two dimensions: the human one and the architectural one. To perceive the gems, the gaze often has to climb the walls until it reaches unlikely and hidden unmarked baroque decorations accessible only to the elite of romantic, melancholic scholars… like a family jewel uselessly and unconsciously locked in an unknown trunk in the attic that only that crazy uncle knows who no one listens to. Furthermore, it will not be possible to avoid encountering human presence in the alleys, now sad and subdued of an elderly man bent by the fatigue of working in the countryside or in the craft shop, now instead colored by the shouts of children.

Modica Alta dies to the extent that "its vileness" blinds it, Deaf Modica, grow up.
Without the contribution of the brick mafia, Modica Alta would still be the residential center of the city today and would most likely have kept alive and intact the historical-architectural heritage that the new neighborhoods will never be able to have.

However, something is moving, there are several signs that open a window for this splendid part of the city, unknown to tourists and their guides: the former church of San Nicolò and Erasmo is now home to the Clarence Theater Academy, the low cost of rent brings someone back to these parts, the Borgo Degli Artisti association was created to redevelop it urbanistically… the first tourist flyers begin to report more than one destination in Modica Alta.

Her Highness the Countess it is an exhibition of 20 33x48cm panels printed on plain paper and applied on cardboard. The work is permanently exhibited at Pizza Smile, a well-known pizzeria in Modica Alta. The result is definitely worth seeing for yourself.