Catania is also of ancient origin, but it has been damaged and destroyed over the centuries by successive invasions and serious natural calamities (earthquake in 1693). The earth of Catania is the Via Etna from which all the main shopping streets depart, and onto which the spendid Villa Bellini also faces, with its luxuriant park full of exotic, age-old and rare plants.

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Catania is also of ancient origin, but it has been damaged and destroyed over the centuries by successive invasions and serious natural calamities (earthquake in 1693). The earth of Catania is the Via Etna from which all the main shopping streets depart, and onto which the spendid Villa Bellini also faces, with its luxuriant park full of exotic, age-old and rare plants. Catania is a baroque city and among the most important monuments there is the Cathedral. Here you can also visit the house of Giovanni Verga, the famous verist novelist, and that of Vincenzo Bellini, the great nineteenth-century musician.