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Catania is the second largest city Siziliens and capital of the province Catania in Italy.

Situation and data

Catania is located at the east coast Siziliens at the foot to approx. 30 km removed the largest and most active volcano of Europe. The city has 305,430 inhabitants, of it is 144,203 men and 161,227 Mrs. (conditions to 31. March 2005).

The neighbour municipalities are: Aci Castello, Belpasso, Carlentini, Gravina di Catania, Lentini, Mascalucia, Misterbianco, Motta Sant'Anastasia, San Gregorio di Catania, San Pietro Clarenza, Sant'Agata left Battiati and Tremestieri Etneo.

History

Catania became in 8. Century v.Chr of Greek settlers from based. At 1071 one with the building of the cathedral and it began developed further settlements around Catania. The city was destroyed 1169 and 1693 to large parts of earthquakes and of lava stream, which penetrated at that time up to the sea. After the destruction 1693 the city in today still the baroque architectural style evident in the townscape was again developed. In 19. Century became Catania province capital of the province of the same name.

Economics

Catania is the most important restaurant region Siziliens with different branches of industry, among other things important enterprises of the semiconductor industry are settled and from the IT-industry into and around Catania. Largest industrieller employer is the electronics company STMicroelectronics with approximately 4,600 coworkers. Further important industries are the foodstuffs industry, plastic industry and the tourism.

Education and science

The degli Studi di Catania was created in the year 1434 and is thereby the oldest university on Sicily international admits is also the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania.

Objects of interest

Churches

The old part of town stands together with other baroque cities in the Val di Noto on the UNESCO list of the world cultural heritage. The city is coined/shaped after the destruction by the lava of the strongly from the baroque and under the most important objects of interest is many buildings and monuments from this epoch

Elephant well, the symbol Catanias, in the center of the city in the center of the Piazza Duomo. The elephant is from lava, on it stands a Obelisk from granite.
The cathedral of Catania is the Hl. Agata is geweiht. He was built between 1078 and 1093. Today is received little from the original building. Thus the front was again created after the devastating earthquake of 1669 by Gian Battista Vaccarini in the baroque style. In the cathedral the grave of the composer born in Catania is Vincenzo Bellini.
Badia di Sant'Agata, former abbey with a baroque church.
the church of the San Benedetto in via dei Crociferi, the church of San Benedetto in Catania is decorated a beautiful example of the Barocco Siciliano, between 1726 and 1762, with Fresken by Giovanni Tuccari from Messina.
The former Benediktinerkloster San Nicola, accommodates today the University of Catania. It received a front from Vaccarini 1752. The building is a large building of baroque, the church has a not completed front.
the Colleggiata (royal chapel), of Stefano Ittar, 1768.

Palazzi

Palazzo Biscari is the most important Palazzo of Catania. On behalf the family Castello prince von Biscari built.
The Palazzo degli elefanti because of the Piazza del Duomo is been the seat of the city hall (Palazzo Municipale).
Palazzo Valle of Vaccarini around 1740-50.
Palazzo di Giustizia (Law Courts) between 1937 and 1953 of the architect Francesco Fichera builds. The Law Courts stand to the Piazza Verga in Catania. The front is late baroque (Settecento catanese). In the entrance is a bronze statue of the Justizia, work M.M. Lazzaro
Palazzo Reburdone late work of the Vaccarini for the family Guttadauro di Reburdone builds. The aristocracy palace belongs to the catanesischen late baroque. There are there two large one with Fresken of the Sebastiano Lo Monaco in the the other one neoklassizistisch.
Palazzo del Toscano, 1870 of the architect Enrico Alvino builds. The Palazzo served del Toscano as city residence for the aristocracy family of the marchesi to piazza the Stesicoro in Catania.

Other

The Amphitheater was today partly covered by baroque buildings one the largest antique ones. On the Piazza Stesicoro still visibly.
Bellini museum to the Piazza Franceso, birth house and museum of the composer Vincenzo Bellini.
Via Etnea, the main street Catanias with many business and places.
Mansion Bellini, a park beautifully put on in the heart of the city with panorama.
Birth house of Giovanni Verga
Castello Ursino with the Museo Civico, around 1240 built, in 14. Century residence of the aragonischen kings, today seat of the Museo Civico. Here Greek sculptures are shown.
At the Porta Judicello one still arrives at the existing Cemetery of the Giudecca and still existing existing ritual Baths, which rank among the most beautiful objects of interest of the city Catania.

Culture

Culturally Catania cannot only back-look on its baroque architecture. The opera composers Bellini and Pacini belong ebeneso to the sons of the city like the writer Verga. Bellini, the probably most well-known Catanesen is dedicated the Teatro Massimo Bellini and the park mansion Bellini.

One of the wichtigesten religious and cultural events of the city represents the annual celebration of the holy Agatha of the Schutzpatronin of the city.

In more recent time Catania brought artists out such as Fiorello and Carmen Consoli.

Traffic

The airport of Catania (Fontanarossa) is based on the traffic volume the fourth largest of Italy. The motorway A18/E45 and the A19 lead after Catania. The course of Catania drives 1 hour to Syrakus, to Messina 1 hour 20 minutes and to Enna 1 hour and 15 minutes (fastest connection). To Palermo the travel time amounts to at least 3 hours 30 minutes.

Sport

The most popular kind of sport of the city is the soccer game. Calcio Catania, up-to-date (season 2005/2006) in the series of B, was created in the year 1946 and in the last years ascended it from the series of C2 up to the series of B. The stadium Angelo Massimino seizes 21,000 places.

</b>Daneben give it further popular kinds of sport. In the Wasserball the ladies of the club Orizzonte Geymonat Catania are very successful with 14 Italian championships and 6 national master cups.

Catania was three time destination of a stage of the giro d'Italia:

   * 1989 (21 May): 1. Stage, winner was the dutchman Jean Paul Van Poppel. * 1999 (16 May): 2. Stage, winner was the Italian Mario Cipollini. * 2003 (14 May): 5. Stage, winner was the Italian Alessandro Petacchi.

Beside the water ball ladies there are crews, which attained Italian championship honour in other kinds of sport: Volleyball of the gentlemen by Paoletti Catania, Volleyball of the ladies by Torre Tabita Catania, woman football by Jolly Componibili Catania and in the Hockey of the gentlemen by Cus Catania Catania.