The Arab period was its golden age and Scicli was the royal capital of the Normans and a feud with the Aragones as part of the County of Modica. The destruction caused by the 1693 earthquake changed it and some roads and numerous baroque settings have today a different look.
Among the main monuments: the former monastery of Carmelites, rebuilt between 1775 and 1778; the palace Beneventano of the 18th century with an refined decoration of the corbels on the balconies; the Mother Church, formerly the church of the Jesuit College, founded in 1629, it preserves the papier-mache statue of the Madonna on horseback which gives the name to the feast; the Church of St. Bartolomeo, built in the 15th century and enlarged in the 16th century is one of the few buildings survived to the 1693 earthquake; the Church of St. John is a precious example of the baroque style.