Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Catania, Italy

The Fountain of the Rape of Proserpina is a monumental sculptural and hydraulic work of the city of Catania, built in 1904 and placed at the end of Via VI Aprile in a lateral position to the main building of the central station of Catania.

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The City of Science, also known as the City of Science of Catania to distinguish it from the Neapolitan structure of the same name, is an initiative for the promotion and dissemination of science managed by volunteers mainly from the University of Catania and located in an old sulfur refinery located in Via Simeto in Catania, not far from the central station. It consists of an interactive science museum consisting of five sections called islands, an exhibition area distributed along a suspended corridor, an auditorium, some laboratories and a refreshment area.

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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. ,

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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.

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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

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San Biagio, previously called Sant'Agata alla Fornace or La Fornace or Carcara is a Neoclassical architecture, Roman Catholic parish church located at the western edge of the Piazza Stesicoro in the quartiere San Biagio della Calcarella, of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The church overlooks a portion of the ruins of the former Ancient Roman amphitheater, while behind the apse in succession are two other churches dedicated in honor of St Agatha of Sicily: the church of Sant'Agata al Carcere and two blocks west facing the opposite direction is Sant'Agata la Vetere.

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Santa Agata al Carcere, sometimes called Santo Carcere or the Carcere church is a Roman Catholic church located on Piazza Santo Carcere #7, in the city of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It is one of three nearly adjacent churches dedicated in honor of St Agatha of Sicily in this neighborhood, the other two being Sant'Agata alla Fornace and Sant'Agata la Vetere.

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San Michele Arcangelo ai Minoriti is a Roman Catholic parish church and attached monastery in the city center of Catania, region of Sicily, Italy. The former monastery, to the left of the facade, now houses shops on the ground-floor, and above are the offices of the Provincial government and the Prefettura or Prefecture.

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The Ancient Royal and Eminent Basilica Collegiate of Our Lady of the Alms, better known as Basilica della Colleggiata, is a church in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. Finished in 1794, it is an example of Sicilian Baroque.

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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 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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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.

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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.

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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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The Fountain of the "Seven Canals" is the oldest fountain in Catania, surrounded by an iron gate.

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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.

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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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San Benedetto is a late-Baroque architecture, Roman Catholic church and former Benedictine monastery in the city Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The church facade faces Via Crociferi, parallels across via San Benedetto the former-Jesuit church of San Francesco Borgia, and both are about a block south along Crociferi from the church and convent of San Giuliano. Entrance to church and monastery appear to be through Piazza Asmundo #9 near the apse of the church.

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San Francesco Borgia is a Roman Catholic church located on Via Crociferi #7, adjacent to the former Collegio Gesuita, and parallel to San Benedetto, and about a block south on Crociferi of the church and convent of San Giuliano, in the city of Catania, region of Sicily, southern Italy. The church is mainly used for exhibits, but still holds much of the original Jesuit artwork.

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San Giuliano is a Roman Catholic church and attached convent located on Via Crocifero #36 of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It stands across from the Collegio dei Gesuiti, whose church of San Francesco Borgia also faces Crociferi. Two blocks north on Crociferi is the baroque church of San Camillo de Lellis.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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San Nicolò l'Arena is the title of both the Roman Catholic church and its adjacent and enormous Benedictine monastery in the city of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The facade of the church faces Piazza Dante.

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Sant’Agata la Vetere is a Roman Catholic church located in the piazza of the same name in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. East of church and nearby, but facing in the other direction, are two other churches dedicated in honor of St Agatha of Sicily: the church of Sant'Agata al Carcere and two blocks east on Piazza Stesicoro is Sant'Agata alla Fornace, now known San Biagio.

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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.

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The Giardino Bellini is the oldest urban park of Catania.

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