La Torre Scalambri è una torre di difesa costiera e si trova nella località di Punta Secca in provincia di Ragusa sulla costa del mediterraneo. È composta da tre piani e scarpa ridotta e si erge all'estremità ad ovest del porto.
La torre fu costruita nel 1593-1594 da Giovanni Cosimo Bellomo, nobile di Siracusa, ed armata nel 1595 a difesa dell'approdo (scaro) di Punta Secca, frazione balneare del comune di Santa Croce Camerina. Nel 1747 fu totalmente ristrutturata ed assunse l'attuale fisionomia. Dopo il 1908 pervenne a privati cittadini che trasformarono le originarie finestre feritoie in comode porte con relativi balconi. Dall'autunno del 2013 è stata sottoposta a restauro conservativo che le ha reso l'antico volto. Oggi la torre ospita un caffè al piano terra.

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The Torre Cabrera, also known as Torre Mazzarelli, Torre della Dogana or Torre di Gaddimeli, is a 16th-century tower in Marina di Ragusa, a frazione of Ragusa, Sicily.

History
In the 16th century, various Viceroys of Sicily began to build a series of coastal watchtowers around Sicily's coastline in order to protect the island from Ottoman or Barbary raids. In 1584, the Florentine architect Camillo Camilliani published a report called Descrittione delle marine di tutto il regno di Sicilia con le guardie necessarie da cavallo e da piedi che vi si tengono about the state of Sicily's coastline. In this report, he mentioned that at Marina there was a small tonnara with warehouses. He did not believe that constructing a tower in the area was necessary, since its shallow waters and swamp acted as natural barriers preventing corsairs from landing there.

The tower was eventually built sometime between 1584 and 1596, at the expense of Don Ludovico or Luigi Enriquez-Cabrera, Count of Modica. It was built in the same style as the towers designed by Camillani, perhaps in deference to the parliamentary decision of 9 April 1579 that was providing ten thousand scudi to repair the existing towers and build others, at the request of the Viceroy Don Marcantonio Colonna.

The tower, which was smaller than the tower of the same name in Pozzallo, was garrisoned by a few soldiers and was equipped with six cannons.

On 14 June 1606, Barbary pirates attacked three Sicilian ships near the island of Porri. Three days later, these pirates disguised themselves as Christians and landed at Marina, attacking a ship docked in the harbour. They also took the warden of the Torre Cabrera as a prisoner.

Torre Cabrera (Marina di Ragusa)

Donnafugata Castle (Italian: Castello di Donnafugata [kaˈstɛllo di ˌdɔnnafuˈɡaːta]) is 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from Ragusa in Sicily, Italy.

Although the origins of Donnafugata Castle can be traced to the 14th-century most of its current Neo-Classical and Neo-Gothic appearance belongs to the 19th.
Loggia of the castle.

Detail of the stone labyrinth.
The name is the possibly the result of a linguistic corruption of the Arabic toponym عين الصحة ('Ayn al-Ṣiḥḥat, i.e. Source of Health). In Sicilian it turns into Ronnafuata.[citation needed]

Alternatively, Donnafugata could translate from Italian as approximately "fugitive woman" or "woman who fled". Based on this interpretation, one legend claims that Queen Blanche of Navarre, widow of King Martin I of Aragon, was in hiding from Count Bernardo Cabrera [it], who wanted to marry her and assume leadership over Sicily. She hid in Donnafugata Castle until it was taken under siege by Cabrera, during which Giovanni Moncada helped her flee and hide again in the Steri Palace in Palermo. While this story may be true, it is not from whence the castle's name originates