Catania Cathedral information

Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Agatha (Italian: Cattedrale metropolitana di Sant'Agata), usually known as the Catania Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Catania), is...

Catania (/kəˈtɑːniə/, also UK: /-ˈteɪn-/, US: /-ˈtæn-/, Sicilian and Italian: [kaˈtaːnja] ) is the second-largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo...

Saint Agatha in Catania is a major festival in the region, it takes place during the first five days of February. The Catania Cathedral (also known as...

Motta Sant'Anastasia, Norman tower (Dongione) Caronia, Norman castle Catania Cathedral Ponte dei Saraceni (Norman bridge), Adrano Ponte Calatrasi (Norman...

flower") from Amina's final aria is inscribed on Bellini's tomb in the Catania Cathedral in Sicily. Returning to Milan after the I Capuleti e i Montecchi performances...

The Amphitheatre of Catania is a Roman amphitheatre in Catania, Sicily, Southern Italy, built in the Roman Imperial period, probably in the 2nd century...

The University of Catania (Italian: Università degli Studi di Catania) is a university located in Catania, Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university...

Charles's sons Robert and Philip landed in Sicily, but after capturing Catania were defeated by Frederick, Philip being taken prisoner (1299), while several...

for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania". Many years later, in 1898, Giuseppe Verdi "praised the broad curves of...

city, Catania, was the most damaged of all the larger cities in 1693, with only the medieval Castello Ursino and three tribunes of the cathedral remaining;...

in 1669, when the lava buried numerous villages reaching the sea near Catania, with a flow up to 17 km long. This eruption completely changed the landscape...

great-grandfather, King Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. Frederick III was born in Catania and succeeded to his brother Louis in 1355 under the regency of his sister...

Bellini; English translation: "Bellini Garden") is the oldest urban park of Catania. It occupies 70.942 m². Before the construction of a public garden, the...

Catania, also known as the Thaumaturgus, or St Leo the Wonderworker in Sicily (May 703 or 709 – 20 February 789), was the fifteenth bishop of Catania...

Catholic diocese of Catania active. 902 CE – Catania "sacked by the Saracens" during the Muslim conquest of Sicily. 1090 – Catania Cathedral founded. 1169 –...

of Catania and killed eighteen thousand people. Only a part of the cathedral and one house survived. Another earthquake struck the ruins of Catania at...

– and co-cathedrals. Many former cathedrals and proto-cathedrals are also included, but many more are yet to be added. Almost all cathedrals in Italy...

facade of Syracuse Cathedral (destroyed in the 1693 earthquake) and Antonello Gagini's grandiose marble 'tribuna' in Palermo Cathedral (destroyed at the...

building located facing the piazza Duomo in Catania, region of Sicily, Italy. It stands aside from the Cathedral of Sant'Agata, and across the piazza from...