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The Best Attractions In Catania

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Catania is the second largest city of Sicily after Palermo located on the east coast facing the Ionian Sea. It is the capital of the Metropolitan City of Catania, one of the ten biggest cities in Italy, and the seventh largest metropolitan area in Italy. The population of the city proper is 320,000 while the population of the city's metropolitan area, Metropolitan City of Catania, stood at 1,116,168 inhabitants. Catania was destroyed by catastrophic earthquakes in 1169 and 1693, and by several volcanic eruptions from the neighbouring Mount Etna, the most violent of which was in 1669.Catania was founded in the 8th century BC by Chalcidians. In 1434, the...
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  • 1. Mount Etna Catania
    Mount Etna, or Etna , is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania. It lies above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. It is the highest active volcano in Europe outside the Caucasus. It is currently 3,329 m high, though this varies with summit eruptions. It is the highest peak in Italy south of the Alps. Etna covers an area of 1,190 km2 with a basal circumference of 140 km . This makes it by far the largest of the three active volcanoes in Italy, being about two and a half times the height of the next largest, Mount Vesuvius. Only Mount Teide on Tenerife surpasses it in the whole of the European–North-African region west of the Black Sea. In Greek Myt...
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  • 2. Piazza Duomo Catania
    Piazza del Duomo is a city square in Catania, Italy.
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  • 5. Giardino Bellini Catania
    The Giardino Bellini is the oldest urban park of Catania. It occupies 70.942 m².
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  • 7. Duomo di Catania Catania
    The Cathedral of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto or Duomo of Saint Sebastian or Duomo of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, exact full name Minor Basilica of Saint Sebastian, is in Piazza Duomo and the main façade faces in Roma Street. It is the largest of the churches of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Italy and in the province, second only to the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta Messina. The engineer Barbaro nephew of Monsignor Barbaro directs the work performed by the firm Fratelli Cardillo, collaborated in the construction of the Shrine of Christ the King, a contemporary work of the Cathedral of Saint Sebastian.
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  • 8. Aci Castello Catania
    Aci Castello is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania in Sicily, Italy. The city is located 9 kilometres north of Catania on the Mediterranean coast. The primary economic sectors are agriculture and industry . The city is neighbored by Aci Catena, Acireale, Catania, San Gregorio di Catania and Valverde.
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  • 15. Teatro Massimo Bellini Catania
    The Teatro Massimo Bellini is an opera house in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. Named after the local-born composer Vincenzo Bellini, it was inaugurated on 31 May 1890 with a performance of the composer's masterwork, Norma. It seats 1,200.
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