Description
Palazzo Reburdone is a large 18th-century noble palace on Via Vittorio Emanuele II, in Catania, at the corner of Piazza dei Martiri: built to show the whole city how high a provincial family had risen.
Its heart is the main courtyard, one of the largest in Catania, closed at the far end by a pincer-shaped staircase inside a double portico. On the piano nobile, two twin halls have vaults so tall that they break through into the floor above: the balconies up there cannot be used.
Francesco Battaglia designed it between 1776 and 1785 for the Guttadauro, who came from Mineo and became Princes of Emmanuel in 1787. It was meant to house the two sons of Prince Enrico, but the brothers quarreled and the younger one had a palace of his own built, the nearby Palazzo Pedagaggi. Today it houses the university and the Accademia Gioenia.
Its heart is the main courtyard, one of the largest in Catania, closed at the far end by a pincer-shaped staircase inside a double portico. On the piano nobile, two twin halls have vaults so tall that they break through into the floor above: the balconies up there cannot be used.
Francesco Battaglia designed it between 1776 and 1785 for the Guttadauro, who came from Mineo and became Princes of Emmanuel in 1787. It was meant to house the two sons of Prince Enrico, but the brothers quarreled and the younger one had a palace of his own built, the nearby Palazzo Pedagaggi. Today it houses the university and the Accademia Gioenia.