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The Cathedral: Norman-Baroque style, has been repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt after the earthquakes that have taken place over time. The first building dates back to the period and was built on the ruins of the Baths Achilliane dating back to the Romans. Catania is one of the few cities in Italy to offer such different landscapes concentrated in a single site. Located on the east coast, at the foot of Mount Etna.

At the center of the Cathedral square is what is the Symbol of Catania, or "u Liotru", a lava stone statue depicting an elephant surmounted by a obelisco, at the center of a marble fountain.

Ursino Castle Ursino Castle was founded by Frederick II in the thirteenth century. The manor had a certain visibility during the Sicilian Vespers, as the seat of Parliament, and later, residence of the kings of Aragon including Frederick III. Today it’s house to the Civic Museum.

Saint Agata, Catania Patron Saint Agatha of Sicily is a Christian saint and virgin martyress. Her memorial is on 5 February. Agatha was born in Catania, 231 AC, Sicily, and she was martyred in approximately 251 AC. She is one of seven women, who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. She is the patron saint of Catania and she is also the patron saint of breast cancer patients, martyrs, wet nurses, bell-founders, bakers, fire, earthquakes, and eruptions of Mount Etna.

Sicilian art handmade

Carretti Siciliani They were the ancient Greeks who brought the concept of a simple rectangular cart with two wheels for Sicily and carts of this type can be seen in Roman mosaics of Piazza Armerina. Carts are hand painted and pulled by horses in the city and on flat areas, but donkeys and mules were used for rougher terrain.

Pupi Siciliani Richly decorated and chiseled, with a wooden structure, the Puppets had real breastplates. The Puppets date back to the great medieval epics of Boiardo and Ariosto. They represent a folk epic theater, who probably came from Spain of Don Quixote. The puppeteer, supervised the show, screenplays, puppets, and with a particular tone of voice could give suggestions, fervor and pathos to the epic scenes represented.

Ceramics of Caltagirone The Ceramics of Caltagirone are among the most famous in the world and reflect the style of all the peoples who colonized Sicily. The reasons why the ceramics Caltagirone had significant boost in the Middle Ages are to be found not only in the good quality of the clay, which abounds in the city but also neighboring and immense forests that nurturing and supporting a huge development of the honey, with subsequent request for the storage containers, the other provided the wood, for the firing of manufactured articles in furnaces, numerous ceramics of the place.

Italian art some of the most important monuments The Colosseum is one of the most rappresentative monument of Italy and it's in the middle of Rome, the capital. It was built in Romane time The building dates to 70 a.C. It was once used as an arena of gladiators.

The Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous cultuar treasure of Vaticano City. It's famous in all the world for his frescoes. It dates back to It was frescoed by Michelangelo, a famous painter. SISTINE CHAPELSISTINE CHAPEL

DAVIDE OF MICHELANGELO The David is a famous sculpture, made of marble by Michelangelo Buonarroti, dated between 1501 and early 1504 in the Galleria of Accademia in Florence. Considered a masterpiece of world sculpture, is one of the emblems of the Renaissance and symbol of Florence Italy and abroad.

BRONZI OF RIACE The Bronze Statues are two bronze statues of Greek origin or Magna Greece, dating from the fifth century BC The two statues - discovered August 16, 1972 near Riace, a city in the province of Reggio Calabria - are considered among the most important sculptural masterpieces of Greek art, and between the direct testimony of the great sculptors of the 'classical age. Bronzes are located at the National Museum of Magna Grecia in Reggio Calabria.

IT'S A OIL PICTURE ON POPLAR WOOD PAINTED BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, IS CONSIDERED THE MOST FAMOUS FRAMEWORK OF THE WORLD. The Mona Lisa was in turn loved, idolized, but also ridiculed or attacked The imperceptible smile of the Mona Lisa or Gioconda, with its aura of mystery, has inspired many pages of critical. It's a very famous icon of painting It’s preserved in Louvre museum.