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Architectural Building Attractions In Province of Catania

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The Province of Catania was a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in southern Italy. Its capital was the city of Catania. It was replaced by the Metropolitan City of Catania starting from 4 August 2015.
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  • 3. Monastero Santa Lucia Adrano
    Monastero di Santa Lucia is an architectural complex in the city of Adrano, near Catania, Italy. The former monastery currently serves as an elementary school. Attached to it is the high school, Giovanni Verga. An eastward extending piazza faces the garden of the Villa Comunale, which fronts the Church and Monastery of Santa Lucia.The monastery of Santa Lucia was founded in 1157 and was rebuilt in the 15th and 17th centuries. The church adjoining the monastery was erected in 1596 and was rebuilt in the late 18th century. The façade has three orders. Two bell towers rise on the sides with quadrangular domes. Inside, the choir is in the Rococo style, and continues to the first altar. A painting depicting Saint Lucy is attributed to Giuseppe Rapisardi. The apse paintings, the decorations of ...
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  • 4. 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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  • 5. Palazzo Biscari Catania
    Palazzo Biscari is a private palace in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It was built by will of the Paternò Castello family, the princes of Biscari, starting from the late 17th century, lasting for much of the following century, after the devastations of the 11 January 1693 earthquake. The new palace was built directly against the city walls , which had partially withstood the earthquake. The oldest section was built under Ignazio, third prince of Biscari, who entrusted the project to architect Alonzo Di Benedetto. Ignazio's son, Vincenzo, commissioned the decoration of the seven large windows facing the seaside, by the Messinese sculptor Antonino Amato. Later the palace was modified under the fourth Prince, Ignazio Paternò Castello, who had it enlarged eastwards under design by Giuseppe...
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  • 13. Palazzo Rosa di Catania Catania
    Palazzo Falson, formerly known as Palazzo Cumbo-Navarra, Casa dei Castelletti, and the Norman House, is a medieval townhouse in Mdina, Malta. It was purposely built as a family residence by the Maltese nobility, and it is named after the Falson family. It is presently open to the public as a house-museum with seventeen rooms of historic domestic belongings and a number of antique collections. The building is believed to have been built in around 1495, probably incorporating parts of a 13th-century building. This makes it the second oldest building in Mdina, after the ground floor of Palazzo Santa Sofia. During the rule of the Order of St. John, the building might have received Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, the first Grand Master in Malta. The building was further enlarged in the mid-16...
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  • 15. Porta Garibaldi Catania
    Milano Porta Garibaldi is a major railway station in the Italian city of Milan, located just to the north of the neighbourhood known as Porta Garibaldi. Porta Garibaldi is the city's main station for commuter traffic with 25 million passengers annually, although it is second to Centrale station considering total passenger traffic. The station is located on Piazza Sigmund Freud.
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