Among the reasons to go up the hill from Valle dei Templi to the modern city is the opportunity to eat a more-local, less-overpriced meal or to stay at an inexpensive hotel; another is to ring the doorbell at the Monastero di Santo Spirito and try the kus-kus (sweet cake), made of pistachio nuts and chocolate, that the nuns prepare.
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