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Mount Etna

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Piazza Armerina

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Aeolian Islands

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Someday we will visit Catania or begin to dream about going there! However, for now its not on our radar. Let us know in the comments if you think that should change!

Catania

Catania is a city on the eastern coast of Sicily at the foot of Mount Etna, the biggest volcano in Europe. It is the second largest city in Sicily with the metropolitan area reaching one million inhabitants, a major transport hub, economic centre and a university city where you will enjoy a busy downtown and an active nightlife. Catania is also well known for its particular baroque architecture and urban design, consequences of the great earthquake of 1693 after which the city had to be rebuilt, like most of eastern Sicily.

The opera composer Vincenzo Bellini was born in Catania, and a museum exists at his birthplace. The Teatro Massimo "Vincenzo Bellini", which opened in 1890, is named after the composer. The opera house presents a variety of operas through a season, which run from December to May, many of which are the work of Bellini.

The symbol of the city is u Liotru, or the Fontana dell'Elefante, assembled in 1736 by Giovanni Battista Vaccarini. It portrays an ancient lavic stone elephant and is topped by an Egyptian obelisk from Syene. Legend has it that Vaccarini's original elephant was neuter, which the men of Catania took as an insult to their virility. To appease them, Vaccarini appropriately appended elephantine testicles to the original statue.

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

15.8°C5.3
Precipitation: 74.8 mm

Feb

16.4°C5.4
Precipitation: 52.6 mm

Mar

17.8°C6.5
Precipitation: 46 mm

Apr

20.3°C8.3
Precipitation: 35.4 mm

May

24.2°C11.6
Precipitation: 19.2 mm

Jun

28.3°C15.6
Precipitation: 6 mm

Jul

31.7°C18.5
Precipitation: 5 mm

Aug

32°C19.2
Precipitation: 8.9 mm

Sep

29.1°C17.1
Precipitation: 45 mm

Oct

24.7°C13.7
Precipitation: 106.1 mm

Nov

20.3°C9.7
Precipitation: 62.3 mm

Dec

16.8°C6.7
Precipitation: 85.9 mm
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