Catania, chaotic and beautiful
An industrial and economic city, Catania has brazenly risen to prominence for its hidden beauties. Its soul is Greek, in fact it was the Chalcidans who founded it in 729 B.C., then Roman, Byzantine, Norman and so on, it thrives on visual and landscape contrasts.
The sea and Etna, philosophy and commerce, the theater and the local market. Everything is wild and vital contrast.
The traveler cannot help but fall in love with it and appreciate its history of continuous rebirths in the shadow of the volcano. Not to be missed during the feast of St. Agatha (Feb. 3-6), a spectacular appointment between faith and folklore. Three days of worship, devotion, folklore and traditions that have no parallel in the world.
Only the Holy Week in Seville, Spain, and the Corpus Christi festival in Guzco, Peru, can compare in popularity to the Catanese festivities for five centuries.