Avola (Italian: [ˈaːvola]; Sicilian: Àvula/Àula, becoming Ràvula/Ràula if preceded by vowel;[citation needed] Latin: Abola) is a city and comune in the province of Syracuse, Sicily (southern Italy).

Estimated to date between 370 and 300 BC, the extant items of ornate jewellery are now housed in the British Museum and comprise a pair of bracelets with double snake-heads, a finger-ring and an ear-ring with the figure of Eros.

[6] Like much of south-eastern Sicily, Avola was destroyed by an earthquake in 1693, and was refounded in a new location of the coast, under the design of friar architect Angelo Italia, having a geometric and regular plan.

Along the main road that goes to Syracuse is situated a megalithic monument, so-called "pseudo-dolmen" because of natural origin but adapted, in the prehistory, to experimental architectural elaboration.

[9] When British and American forces arrived in Sicily the Sicilians did not regard them as conquering invaders but rather greeted them as "emancipators come to lift the evil burden of fascism from their shoulders.

The American GIs were over fifty miles away from their intended landing zone and decided to improvise, which in this case meant attempting to take the town by force on their own.

[17] On December 3, 1968, during the time period known as the Hot Autumn,[18] Avola was the scene of an infamous massacre, when police opened fire on demonstrating day-labourers demanding the renewal of their contract.

In its hilly territory there is one of the largest canyons in Europe: Cavagrande del Cassibile oriented nature reserve, where it is possible to visit enchanting small lakes.