Malavoglia Fountain
Church of the Minorites
Palazzo Reburdone
Palazzo del Toscano
Piazza Stesicoro
Palazzo Bruca
Palazzo Bruca is an ancient palace in Catania, located in the historic center at 201 Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 200 meters from Piazza del Duomo.
Built in the 18th century, it belonged to the Princes Scammacca della Bruca. It encloses a...
Toy Museum
Emilio Greco Museum
The museum contains the greatest part of the artist’s graphic production, 159 works among lithographs and etchings. The heirs are ready to offer other Greco’s works to the museum. They are above all sculptures and drawings. It is placed in the...
Church of San Domenico
Church of San Francesco d'Assisi all'Immacolata
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Church of Sant'Agata la Vetere
Church of San Biagio
The church of S. Biagio is located in Piazza Stesicoro, directly across from the large trench with the ruins of the amphitheater.
The facade, preceded by a staircase, dates back to the late 18th century. The origins of this church date...
Villa Cerami
Monastery of the Benedictines
Quattro Canti
The Quattro Canti (Four Corners) are formed by the intersection of Via Etnea with Via di Sangiuliano.
The four palaces, built in the same architectural style, have chamfered corners, creating an octagonal plaza.
The four palaces are...
Exhibition Center Le Ciminiere
Zoological Museum
Founded in 1853 as department of Zoology of the University, the museum stands today near the "Dipartimento di Biologia Animale". It contains the collections of the professors and of the members of the "Associazione Gioenia di Scienze Naturali";...
Teatro Angelo Musco
Palazzo Platamone
Piazza San Francesco d'Assisi
Enter via dei Crociferi, at the intersection with the western part of via Vittorio Emanuele, through the arch of San Benedetto.
On the small square, the imposing church of San Francesco d'Assisi all'Immacolata stands. At the center, a...
Via Vittorio Emanuele II
Palazzo Gravina Cruyllas
Votive Deposit of Piazza San Francesco
Church of San Gaetano alle Grotte
The Church of San Gaetano alle Grotte is a late-18th-century church in Piazza Carlo Alberto in Catania, on the square of the historic Fera ô luni market. The surprise lies beneath it: a lava cave that was first a Roman cistern, then a burial...
Walls of Charles V
Palazzo del Seminario dei Chierici
The first Seminary of the Clergy was founded in 1572 and was located in the ancient Platea Magna, which today corresponds to Piazza Duomo.
After the earthquake of 1693 it was rebuilt in part on the ancient walls and in part on an area...
Monastery of the Holy Trinity
The Monastery of the Santissima Trinità is a large 18th-century building on Via Vittorio Emanuele II, in the center of Catania. It was a cloistered convent for nuns; today it houses a high school and a Carabinieri barracks, but its church, built...
Monument to Vincenzo Bellini
Piazza Giovanni Verga
Palace of Justice
The Palace of Justice, whose construction began in 1937 and was inaugurated in 1953, is the work of architect Francesco Fichera and stands in the central Piazza Verga.
The facade of the building is reminiscent of architectural motifs of...
Palazzo Fassari Pace
Palazzo Fassari Pace is a late Baroque palace in the upper part of Via Vittorio Emanuele II in Catania, next to the monastery of the Santissima Trinità. Built in the early 18th century, in a city rising again after the earthquake of 1693, it is...
National Boarding School Mario Cutelli
Piazza I Viceré
Palazzo San Giuliano
Gioeni Park
Civic and Ursino Recupero Libraries
The Civic Library originated in 1868 from the seizure by the State Treasury - which later ceded it to the Municipality of Catania - of the ancient Library of the Monastery of San Nicolò l’Arena from the first half of the 18th century and from the...