The inner courtyard
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Main stair of the Monastery
© Salvo Puccio
Detail of the stair
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The Benedectine Monastery
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Ponente cloister
© Salvo Puccio
Cloister of Levant
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Find out about the timetables of the guided tours on the property’s website or by contacting the Monastery’s infopoint.
Access for disabled
Guided tours in italian, english, french, spanish, russian, polish
Bookshop
Dining area
Shipping of books and craft objects
Educational activities for schools
Selling of “Catania pass”
Full ticket € 8,00
Reduced € 5,00 (owner of Catania Pass, groups with more than 20 people, over 65, members of: FAI, Touring Club Italiano, Italia Nostra, ICOM, Società Dante Alighieri)*
Reduced € 4,00 (first Sunday of the Month, friends of the owner of MonasteroCard)
Reduced € 3,00 (university students)
Reduced € 2,00 (schools, young people under the age of 18 years)*
Free for MonasteroCard owner, children aged under 12 years (accompanied by adults), accompanying persons of people with disabilities, schools accompanying persons (max 2 every 25 students)
* Visitor must show the documents to demonstrate his belonging to the category of contribution.
Combined ticket Benedictine Monastery, Diocesan Museum and Achilliane Thermae
Full ticket € 13,00
Groups with more than 20 people € 7,00 p.p.
Schools € 4,50 p.p
It’s a “jewel” of the late Sicilian Baroque architecture and an example of integration among different periods, it is shown in UNESCO’s World Heritage Site.
The intriguing story of the monastery began in 1558 and continues today, thanks to the intervention of recovery work by the architect De Carlo and the Technical Office of University.
The former plexus monastic, compromised for over a century of civil use (Astronomical Observatory, several schools and military barracks), has been recognized as Contemporary Architecture Building by Sicilian Region and from 1977 houses the Humanities faculty.
The rigor of neoclassical architectural bodies contrasts with the eighteenth-century carnival of late Baroque and the eclectic Caffeaos main elevations of the Cloister of the Levant, until the discovery in the basement sixteenth century, Roman mosaic of residential areas, fully integrated with contemporary fixtures.
Since 2010 the Association Officine Culturali took charge of its value through multiple public initiatives: guided tours, workshops for children and adults, cultural events and entertainment.
Guided tours conducted by Officine Culturali allow, in an hour and a half or so, the vision of the most significant areas of the Benedictine Monastery.
Tours depart every hour.
