Modern age

The Bellini’s Garden is better known as Bellini’s Villa, it belonged to the Biscari’s family, who gave it to citizenship in 1854. It’s in the heart of Catania and you can come in from several sides, but the main entrance is located along the famous via Etnea.

Villa Bellini is the ideal place where to take a relaxing walk with your family.

Along the via di Sangiuliano there is the Sangiorgi theatre, it is considered the representation of the Catania “Belle Epoque”. After a long and elaborate restoration work, the theatre has an elegant auditorium with 477 seats and a large stage that allows the staging of various events.

The theatre offers a wide variety of representations, not to be missed the concerts by international musicians.

In order to know the history of Catania you need to take a look at one of its historic neighbourhoodsIn the centre of Catania, San Berillo shows its visitors many faces and facets with its Baroque and Fascist buildings, some unfinished and some destroyed by bombardments or other events, and with its simple houses.

The Massimo Bellini Theatre is the place where it stages the opera. During its opening, in 1890, it was staged the representation of ‘Norma’ by Vincenzo Bellini. The central hall is composed of four tiers of stages and galleries on which dominates the evocative fresco.

The city port has undergone a transformation and become an open air art installation. Eight silos became a spectacular 21st century monument; not mere graphic representations but a contemporary story that is inspired by Sicilian traditions.

To be visited for admiring street art a few steps from baroque monuments.