The Court of Catania is composed of six civil sections and five penal sections, two sections of the Court of Assizes, the Judge for Preliminary Investigations section and seven sub-offices sections: Acireale, Adrano, Belpasso, Bronte, Giarre, Mascalucia and Paternò. The main office is located in piazza Giovanni Verga. Other judicial offices are distributed in buldings...

Source: Wikipedia Bellini Garden, also known as Villa Bellini or Giardino Bellini is the oldest, largest and also beautiful park in the center Catania urban park. Before the construction of a public garden, the area was occupied by a botanical maze owned by the Ignazio Paternò Castello, prince of Biscari.[3] In 1854, the the municipality...

Welcome to 8 RH: just a few steps from the shopping and fashion area (Via Etnea and Corso Italia) as well the best bars and restaurants in Catania. In the up-and-coming area of town, between Catania’s business district and the main tourist attraction.   Source: Lonely planet It’s not difficult to see how Catania’s main...

Cathedral Square  –  Source: comunecatania.it “Piazza Duomo” or Cathedral Square, starting point of every touristic visit, can be considered a monument itself: in fact, from this square began the reconstruction of the city after the catastrophic earthquake in 1693. Here there were the most important sites of both of the Government and Clergy of the...

History The Benedictine Monastery of Catania is a jewel of the late Sicilian Baroque. A Cassinese congregation founded the complex in 1558. The original structure was modified by two natural calamities the lava eruption of 1669 and the earthquake of 1693. It was destroyed and re-built and it is now an example of the integration...

  Palazzo delle Scienze is one of these. It hosts the Department of Economics and Business and is engaged in scientific research, teaching programmes and promotion initiatives in the fields of Economics, Business Economics, Mathematics, Statistics and Economic Law. It has a long tradition, which dates back to the first years after the WWII period.

The foundation of the University of Catania, the oldest in Sicily, dates back to 1434, when the king of Spain, Alfonso of Aragon (who was also King Alfonso I of Sicily) authorised the establishment of a Studium generale with the privilege of issuing legally valid academic titles – baccellierati, licenses and degrees – in the four core disciplines of theology, canon and civil law, physical (medical) and joint philosophy, liberal arts (literature), the papal recognition arriving ten years later from Pope Eugene IV. Prior...