Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Catania, Italy

San Nicolò l'Arena is the title of both the Roman Catholic church and its adjacent and enormous Benedictine monastery in the city of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The facade of the church faces Piazza Dante.

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Santissima Trinità is a late-Baroque architecture, Roman Catholic church and former monastery (Badia) located on Via Vittorio Emanuele, corner of Via Santissima Trinità in the city Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The monastery is now a science high school.

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At the Courtyard of San Pantaleone in Catania there are the remains of what was identified as the Roman Forum of Catania.

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The Giovanni Verga house museum in Catania was the birthplace of the famous Italian writer, the greatest exponent of the literary current of verismo and one of the great protagonists of Italian literature

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San Francesco d'Assisi all'Immacolata is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy.

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The Elephant Fountain is a monument located in the center of Piazza del Duomo in the Sicilian city of Catania, designed by architect Giovanni Battista Vaccarini between 1735 and 1737. Its main element is a black basalt statue of an elephant, commonly called u Liotru, which has become the emblem of the city of Catania.

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Badia di Sant'Agata or Abbey of St Agatha refers to an 18th-century Roman Catholic church and attached female convent located on Via Vittorio Emanuele #182 in the center of Catania, region of Sicily, southern Italy. The Baroque style church facade is across the street from the left transept of the Cathedral of Catania.

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The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Agatha, usually known as the Catania Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It was the seat of the Bishops of Catania until 1859, when the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese, and since then has been the seat of the Archbishops of Catania.

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The fountain of Amenano, in Catania, is located on the south side of Piazza del Duomo, in front of the Palazzo degli Elefanti, and next to the building of the Seminary of the Clerics.

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The Fountain of the "Seven Canals" is the oldest fountain in Catania, surrounded by an iron gate.

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The fountain of Sant'Agata, second in order of antiquity in Catania, almost hidden in the walls of Via Dusmet, under the Archbishopric, is located near Porta Uzeda, in front of the arches of the railway viaduct. The people of Catania simply call it the Fontanella. According to popular traditions, the fountain was built in memory of the point from which the body of St. Agatha had departed when it was transported, in 1040, by the Byzantine general Giorgio Maniace, to Constantinople.

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San Placido is a Roman Catholic church and former-Benedictine monastery located on the piazza of the same name in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The complex, two blocks east of the Catania Cathedral, spans a polygonal block encompassed by the Via Vittorio Emanuele II on the north, the via Landolina to the east, the via Museo Biscari on a south diagonal, and to the west the piazza San Placido and Via Porticello. Part of the convent is occupied by the Palazzo della Cultura, used for cultural activities and exhibitions. The Monastero di San Placido also serves presently as the Archivio di Stato di Catania.

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The so-called Bonajuto or Salvaterello chapel is an archaeological site in the Civita district of Catania. It has been suggested that it was a religious function and that it was founded in the Byzantine era.

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The Fountain of the Shells is located in the center of Piazza Mario Cutelli in Catania.

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The Fountain of the Dolphins is located in Catania in Piazza Vincenzo Bellini in front of the Teatro Massimo.

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The Ancient Royal and Eminent Basilica Collegiate of Our Lady of the Alms, better known as Basilica della Colleggiata, is a church in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. Finished in 1794, it is an example of Sicilian Baroque.

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San Benedetto is a late-Baroque architecture, Roman Catholic church and former Benedictine monastery in the city Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The church facade faces Via Crociferi, parallels across via San Benedetto the former-Jesuit church of San Francesco Borgia, and both are about a block south along Crociferi from the church and convent of San Giuliano. Entrance to church and monastery appear to be through Piazza Asmundo #9 near the apse of the church.

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San Francesco Borgia is a Roman Catholic church located on Via Crociferi #7, adjacent to the former Collegio Gesuita, and parallel to San Benedetto, and about a block south on Crociferi of the church and convent of San Giuliano, in the city of Catania, region of Sicily, southern Italy. The church is mainly used for exhibits, but still holds much of the original Jesuit artwork.

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San Giuliano is a Roman Catholic church and attached convent located on Via Crocifero #36 of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It stands across from the Collegio dei Gesuiti, whose church of San Francesco Borgia also faces Crociferi. Two blocks north on Crociferi is the baroque church of San Camillo de Lellis.

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San Michele Arcangelo ai Minoriti is a Roman Catholic parish church and attached monastery in the city center of Catania, region of Sicily, Italy. The former monastery, to the left of the facade, now houses shops on the ground-floor, and above are the offices of the Provincial government and the Prefettura or Prefecture.

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