The square - the centre of the city designed by Vaccarini - has a harmonious Baroque appearance. The elephant fountain , symbol of Catania, stands opposite the 19C Amenano Fountain , set back on the southern side in front of the Palazzo dei Chieric..

This palazzo is the city's most handsome civic building. It is the work of Ignazio Biscari, an art, literature and archaeology enthusiast who financed numerous digs and set up an archaeology museum here (collections temporarily at San Francesco Bor..

Via Crociferi is the street that best illustrates the Catania Baroque style. The buildings that line it, especially in the first stretch, lend it a unique beauty and harmony. You get here via the Arco di San Benedetto , flanked by the Badia Grande a..

This beautiful, richly decorated palace is where a few scenes of Visconti film, the Leopard , based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, were shot.

Cet opéra porte tout naturellement le nom de Bellini, auteur de La Norma , oeuvre qui inaugura le théâtre en 1890. La salle est réputée pour son acoustique, une des meilleures au monde.

In the Ursino castle, its collections mainly group together works by southern artists, from the 15C to the 19C. You will thus find the triptych of the Virgin in majesty, Saint Anthony and Saint Francis by Antonello de Saliba . The Caravaggio schoo..