The man was immortalized on one of the light holders located in Piazza Università by the sculptors Mimì Maria Lazzaro and Domenico Tudisco “The man, who once was considered wise, went mad because of love” (Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto). Almost everyone focused on words like that during school time feeling love or hate...
Beyond the cries of traders and the crowd of people, the so-called ‘caves’ are hidden within the Church of St. Gaetano, where once martyrs such as Saint Agatha were buried Piazza Carlo Alberto has long been the stage of one of the largest city markets in Sicily. Situated in the town-center of Catania, it...
The site, owned by a noble family from Catania, is one of the rare examples of Byzantine architecture in town. Together with the heir and owner Salvatore Bonajuto, we retraced the most significant moments of this place, from Bianca di Navarra’s concession to the studies on its dating Among the most fascinating places in...
Hidden between a fish restaurant and a store of local stuff in Catania, after centuries the Fonte Lanaria still reminds everyone of one of the most significant moment linked to St. Agatha’s cult: the removal of her remains by the Byzantine commander Giorgio Maniace and the legendary origin of the traditional white habit worn...
January 23rd, 1387: an adventurous and fairy liberation plan involved Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada and the daughter of King Federico IV, Maria. She was been imprisoned at the Ursino Castle by the greedy vicar Artale, who did not accept her as the legitimate heir to the throne. Centuries later, we retrace the story of this...
They say it was a lovely spot, with a depth of 50 feet and a width of 4 miles, and that it was the place where high-society villa appeared and boat races used to take place Did you know that Catania was surrounded by a lake? They say it was a lovely spot, with...
About the Church of Blessed Savior, nowadays there is just a chapel where the wooden bust figuring Jesus Christ the Redeemer of the World, made in 1532 according to tradition, is preserved. The holy building, that overlooked the sea, was destroyed during the Unity of Italy after the construction of rail axis «The church...
