Palazzo Gioieni D’Angiò

Palazzo Gioieni D’Angiò was the residence of the Duke Giuseppe Gioieni D’Angiò, who commissioned its construction in the late eighteenth century. The design of this building, it’s located on the north-east of piazza Università towards via Etnea, was conceived by the architect Vaccarini.

It was built in Sicilian baroque style and its distinctive elements are the white stone decorations placed on the entrance door and the bronze angel that sustains Prince Gioieni’s crest, who founded, in the early twentieth century, the Gioieni Academy of Sciences that it renowned in Catania academics to the validity of its scientific publications. Inside there are few things of eighteenth-century because in the Sixties it was completely restored and turned into commercial use.

Inside in the atrium of the palace it’s a bronze monument of the early twentieth century by the sculptor Mario Rutelli, that celebrates the Duke Giuseppe Gioieni D’Angiò.