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Name: Casa natale di Salvatore Quasimodo
Type: Museums
Classification: Museum type: house museum, Ownership: municipal
Salvatore Quasimodo's Birthplace is located in Modica, in the province of Ragusa, where the celebrated Sicilian poet, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in 1901. The house preserves testimonies, photographs, documents, and objects related to Quasimodo's life and literary work. The museum offers insights into the poet and his connection to Sicily, which played a key role in his development and poetic production. Today, the house represents an important site of Sicilian literary and cultural memory.