In Ragusa’s Baroque Piazza Duomo you will probably find the city’s most beautiful church: the Duomo di San Giorgio. Between 1739 and 1775, immediately after the 1963 earthquake that destroyed the old city district, the cathedral was rebuilt on the ruins of the Church of San Nicola. All that remains of the old cathedral structure is the Gothic-Catalan portal from the 15th century.
The current elegant Baroque structure is characterised by the church’s splendid façade, one of the best examples of Sicilian Baroque. Inside, there are three naves divided by stone pillars and important paintings. At the junction between the transept and the nave is the double dome. Also visible in the nave is the 3368-pipe organ, Organum Maximum, which represents one of the finest works of organ-building art.