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Piazza del Duomo. The Duomo di Catania or Cattedrale di Sant'Agata stands on the east side of the square. Originally constructed in 1078–1093, on the ruins of an ancient Roman Thermae ( Achillean Baths ), like nearly all of Catania, the devastating 1693 earthquake, leveled most of the structure, and Giovanni Battista Vaccarini designed a ...
Aug 2020 • Friends. Piazza Duomo di Catania is the center of Catania. You can find numerous cafes to enjoy your coffee. You will admire the elephant strocture too (symbol of Catania). The main street that starts from Piazza Duomo has the majority of the shops, cafes and restaurants to enjoy your stay in Catania!
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Piazza del Duomo. A Unesco World Heritage Site, Catania's central piazza is a set piece of contrasting lava and limestone, surrounded by buildings in the unique local baroque style and crowned by the grand Cattedrale di Sant'Agata. At its centre stands Fontana dell'Elefante (1736), a naive, smiling black-lava elephant dating from Roman times ...
Duomo Square. A splendid circuit of Sicilian Baroque masterpieces characterizes the scene in the Piazza del Duomo at the heart of Catania. Rebuilt in 1700, on the site of the older medieval piazza, the present piazza has much the same role as centre of the city as it had in the past. It is a major meeting point for locals, tourists and the city ...
Piazza del Duomo is the main square of Catania, located at the intersection of three important roads – Via Etnea, the historical axis of the city, Via Giuseppe Garibaldi and Via Vittorio Emanuele II. On the eastern side of the square, stands the Cathedral of Sant’Agata, Duomo di Catania, from which the square takes its name.
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Duomo di Catania. Piazza Duomo is the main square of Catania and the heartbeat of the historic center. Reconstructed in 1700, after a terrible earthquake in 1693, this square was designed by Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, one of the most important architects of sicilian history. Here you can admire some of the most significant examples of ...
Piazza Duomo is a center of the city center of Catania. In this Piazza there is the Cathedral of Sant’Agata, City Hall, Palazzo degli Elefanti...The symbol of the city is u Liotru, or the Fontana dell'Elefante, made in 1736 by Giovanni Vaccarini. Elephant is an ancient lavic sculpture, topped by an Egyptian obelisk.
