Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Catania, Italy

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Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 7.9 km
Ascend 189 m
Descend 166 m

Explore Catania in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in CataniaIndividual Sights in Catania

Sight 1: Parrocchia Santa Maria della Guardia

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Parrocchia Santa Maria della Guardia SconosciutoUnknown author / CC BY 4.0

The church of Santa Maria della Guardia is one of the religious centers of Catania, located in the square of the same name in the Guardia district, and the main seat of the parish of the same name.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Guardia (IT), Website

1490 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 2: Fontana dei Malavoglia

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The Malavoglia Fountain is a monumental fountain in the city of Catania, located in Piazza Giovanni Verga, which includes an artistic sculptural group that stylizes an episode of Verghi's famous opera I Malavoglia (1881).

Wikipedia: Fontana dei Malavoglia (IT)

775 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 3: Basilica Santuario di Maria Santissima Annunziata al Carmine

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Basilica Santuario di Maria Santissima Annunziata al Carmine The original uploader was Triquetra at Italian Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 2.5

The Santuario della Madonna del Carmine also called Basilica di Maria Santissima Annunziata al Carmine, is a Roman Catholic minor basilica church and Marian sanctuary located on Piazza Carlo Alberto, in the town of Catania, Sicily.

Wikipedia: Santuario della Madonna del Carmine, Catania (EN)

234 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa San Gaetano alle Grotte

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San Gaetano alle Grotte is a church in Catania, region of Sicily, southern Italy. The flank of this small church faces Piazza Carlo Alberto where the minor basilica church of the Santuario della Madonna del Carmine is located. ,

Wikipedia: San Gaetano alle Grotte, Catania (EN)

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Monumento a Vincenzo Bellini

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The Monument to Vincenzo Bellini is an outdoor monument located on Piazza Stesicoro, in the city of Catania, Sicily, Italy. Grandbeggers place

Wikipedia: Monument to Vincenzo Bellini, Catania (EN)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Roman Amphitheater

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The Amphitheatre of Catania is a Roman amphitheatre in Catania, Sicily, Southern Italy, built in the Roman Imperial period, probably in the 2nd century AD, on the northern edge of the ancient city at the base of the Montevergine hill. Only a small section of the structure is now visible, below ground level, to the north of Piazza Stesicoro. This area is now the historic centre of the city, but was then on the outskirts of the ancient town and also occupied by the necropolis of Catania. The structure is part of the Parco archeologico greco-romano di Catania.

Wikipedia: Amphitheatre of Catania (EN)

403 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Ipogeo di Sant'Euplio

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Ipogeo di Sant'Euplio

The Church of Sant'Euplio was a place of worship in Catania in the "Porta di Aci" district, opposite that of "Sant'Euplio ad Martyres", destroyed by bombing during World War II. Today, the transept and the right wall of the single nave of the old building, which was rebuilt and inaugurated around 1964 in another area of the city, in the "Petriera" district, remain standing.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Euplio (IT)

567 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 8: Villa Bellini

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The Giardino Bellini is the oldest urban park of Catania.

Wikipedia: Giardino Bellini (EN), Website

181 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Teatro Metropolitan

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The Metropolitan cine-theater is a cinema and a theater in Catania.

Wikipedia: Teatro Metropolitan (Catania) (IT)

286 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Chiesa di San Domenico

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San Domenico, also called Santa Maria la Grande is a Roman Catholic church and active convent located on piazza San Domenico in the quartiere di Santa Maria la Grande, in Catania, region of Sicily, Italy. The church stands about two blocks north of the church of Sant'Agata la Vetere on via Santa Maddalena. The neoclassical-style, late 17th-century church houses a few prominent altarpieces that survived the 1693 catastrophe in Catania.

Wikipedia: San Domenico, Catania (EN)

589 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 11: Museo di Zoologia

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The Museum of Zoology in Catania is a conservation and research centre. Born in 1853, it is the oldest Sicilian scientific museum. The museum is now directed by the pro-tempore Director of the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Catania.

Wikipedia: Museo di zoologia di Catania (IT)

509 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: Santa Maria di Gesù

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Santa Maria di Gesù is a Roman Catholic parish church located on #18 of the piazza of the same name, near its intersection with Viale Regina Margherita, just northwest of Villa Bellini park, in the city of Catania, Region of Sicily, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria di Gesù, Catania (EN)

738 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 13: Teatro Giovanni Verga

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The Giovanni Verga Theatre is the main venue of the Teatro Stabile di Catania and is located in Via Giuseppe Fava.

Wikipedia: Teatro Verga (IT)

1502 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 14: Fontana di Cerere

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Fontana di Cerere

The Fountain of Ceres, also known as the "fountain of the Borgo" or in the local language Matapallara dô Buŗgu or Ma'pallara dô Buŗgu or Tapallara dô Buŗgu, is a hydraulic and sculptural work of the city of Catania, today located in the center of Piazza Cavour, popularly known as "Piazza Borgo", from the district of the same name.

Wikipedia: Fontana di Cerere (IT)

105 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa di Sant'Agata al Borgo

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Sant’Agata al Borgo is a Roman Catholic church in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The church rises alongside via Etna. In front of the church is the tree-lined Piazza Cavour with its fountain of Cerere, while south across the piazza rises the church of the Consolazione. The Borgo is one of the original four districts (quartieri) of Catania.

Wikipedia: Sant'Agata al Borgo, Catania (EN), Website

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