Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Catania, Italy
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Experience Catania in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in CataniaIndividual Sights in CataniaSight 1: Museo Civico Castello Ursino
The Civic Museum of Catania has been located inside the Ursino Castle since October 20, 1934.
Sight 2: Pozzo di Gammazita
The Pozzo di 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 of Gamma Zita near the courtyard of the same name, and refers to a legendary story that took place at the time of the Angevin domination in Sicily, during the War of the Vespers.
Sight 3: Terme dell'Indirizzo
The Terme dell'Indirizzo (Baths of the Address), together with the Terme della Rotonda, the Terme Achilliane, the Terme di Piazza Dante and the Terme di 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.
Sight 4: Amenano Fountain
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.
Sight 5: Fontana dei Sette Canali
The Fountain of the "Seven Canals" is the oldest fountain in Catania, surrounded by an iron gate.
Sight 6: Villa Pacini
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.
Sight 7: Terme Achilliane
By Achillian baths we mean the 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.
Sight 8: Museo Diocesano
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 di Catania with the Elephant Fountain and Via Etnea with the volcano Etna 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 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 Amenano Fountain between the aforementioned Piazza del Duomo and Piazza Alonzo di Benedetto, where there is a fish market.
Sight 9: Porta Uzeda
The Uzeda gate connects Piazza Duomo to Via Dusmet, in the heart of eighteenth-century Catania.
Sight 10: Fontana di Sant'Agata
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.
Sight 11: Teatro Coppola
The Teatro Coppola was the first municipal theatre in Catania, inaugurated in 1821. Destroyed by bombing on 8 July 1943 and then transformed into the scenographic laboratory of the Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini, it was later abandoned. It was then reopened, following the occupation by citizen volunteers, on December 16, 2011.
Sight 12: Cappella Bonajuto
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.
Sight 13: Chiesa di San Placido
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.
Sight 14: Catania Cathedral
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.
Sight 15: Badia di Sant'Agata
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.
Sight 16: Fontana dell'Elefante
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.
Sight 17: Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi all'Immacolata
San Francesco d'Assisi all'Immacolata is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy.
Wikipedia: San Francesco d'Assisi all'Immacolata, Catania (EN)
Sight 18: Museo Emilio Greco
The Emilio Greco Museum in Catania is located in the Palazzo Gravina Cruyllas dei Principi di Palagonia, which is also home to the Bellini Civic Museum.
Sight 19: Museo Civico Belliniano
The Vincenzo Bellini Civic Museum is a museum based in Catania, housed in the rooms on the first floor of 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.
Sight 20: Antiquarium regionale al Teatro Romano
The Regional Antiquarium of the Roman Theatre is located in the Greek-Roman archaeological park of Catania.
Sight 21: Teatro Greco Romano
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.
Sight 22: Casa Museo Giovanni Verga
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
Sight 23: Odeon
The Odéon of Catania is located in the historic center of the Etna city, next to the Greek Theater. Dating back to the second century A.D., musical and dance performances were performed there, as well as rehearsals for the shows held in the nearby theater. It is still used for summer shows today.
Sight 24: Chiesa della Santissima Trinità
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.
Sight 25: Foro Romano
At the Courtyard of San Pantaleone in Catania there are the remains of what was identified as the Roman Forum of Catania.
Sight 26: Porta Garibaldi
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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