Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Catania, Italy

The Civic Museum of Catania has been located inside the Ursino Castle since October 20, 1934.

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The Well of Gammazita is a site located in the historic center of Catania, in the south-west area of the city adjacent to the ancient city walls called the curtain wall of Gamma Zita near the courtyard of the same name, and refers to a legendary tale that took place at the time of the Angevin domination in Sicily, during the War of the Vespers.

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The Terme dell'Indirizzo (Baths of the Address), together with the Baths of the Rotonda, the Achilliane Baths, the Baths of Piazza Dante and the Baths of Sant'Antonio, are one of the many Roman thermal complexes in the city of Catania. Located in Piazza Currò a short distance from the Cathedral and Ursino Castle, they probably date back to the late imperial age, and are often referred to as one of the best preserved Roman baths in Europe.

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The Amenano fountain is located in Catania, on the south side of Piazza del Duomo, in front of the Palazzo degli Elefanti and next to the palace 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 Giardino Pacini, also known as Villa Pacini or the Villa Varagghi, is a small circular urban park located just south of the Porta Uzeda, on the seaward side of the elevated railway viaduct, in Catania, region of Sicily, Italy. It is partially encircled by Via Lavandaie and Via Jonica.

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By Achillian baths we mean thermal structures now underground dating back to the IV-V century located in Catania of which a small portion remains visible under Piazza del Duomo.

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The diocesan museum of Catania is located in the Palazzo del Seminario dei Chierici adjacent to the cathedral of Sant'Agata. From the museum you can access both the terraces of the aforementioned palace and Porta Uzeda, from which you can admire two views: on one side Piazza del Duomo in Catania with the Elephant Fountain and Via Etnea with the Etna volcano in the background; on the other, the walls of Charles V, the Port of Catania with the Arches of the Marina up to the Ursino Castle. Also from the museum you can also access the underground complex of the Achillian Baths, a journey into the bowels of the city, where the Amenano river flows, whose waters rise to the surface in the nearby Fontana dell'Amenano between the aforementioned Piazza del Duomo and Piazza Alonzo di Benedetto, where there is the fish market.

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The Uzeda gate connects Piazza Duomo to Via Dusmet, in the heart of eighteenth-century Catania.

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The fountain of Sant'Agata, the second oldest 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 left when it was transported, in 1040, by the Byzantine general Giorgio Maniace, to Constantinople.

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The Coppola Theater was the first municipal theater in Catania, inaugurated in 1821. Destroyed by a bombing on 8 July 1943 and then transformed into a scenographic laboratory of the Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini, it was later abandoned. It was then reopened, following the occupation by volunteer citizens, on December 16, 2011.

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The so-called Bonajuto or Salvaterello chapel is an archaeological site in the Civita district of Catania. Its religious function and foundation in Byzantine times has been suggested.

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

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The Emilio Greco Museum in Catania is located in the Palazzo Gravina Cruyllas of the Princes of Palagonia, also home to the Bellini Civic Museum.

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The Vincenzo Bellini Civic Museum is a museum based in Catania, housed in the rooms on the first floor of the Palazzo Gravina Cruyllas, one of the many noble residences of the Princes of Palagonia, in Piazza San Francesco, in front of the church of the same name.

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The Regional Antiquarium of the Roman Theatre is located in the Greek-Roman archaeological park of Catania.

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The Roman Theatre of Catania consists of the ruins of two open-air semicircular ancient Roman theatres, located between Piazza San Francesco, via Vittorio Emanuele, via Timeo, and via Teatro Greco in the center of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The site consists of a larger theatre and a smaller semicircular theatre, an Odeon. The structure is part of the Parco archeologico greco-romano di 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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The Odéon in Catania is located in the historic center of the city of Etna, next to the Greek Theater. Dating back to the second century AD, musical and dance performances were performed there, as well as rehearsals for the shows held in the nearby theater. It is still used today for summer shows.

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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 Porta Garibaldi, originally built as the Porta Ferdinandea or Porta Ferdinanda, is a triumphal arch, built in 1768, located at the end of Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, between the Piazza Palestro and Piazza Crocifisso in the quartiere Fortino of Catania, region of Sicily, Italy. It was built to celebrate the marriage of the Bourbon king Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies to the Austrian princess Maria Carolina d'Asburgo-Lorena.

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