Catania Sicily (4K) / Italy Travel Vlog #231 / The Way We Saw It
Our last vlog from Italy comes from Catania, the second largest city in Sicily. Catania is somewhat less agitated than Palermo and lives strongly from the sea. This can be witnessed at the daily fish market in the city center. But this city has much more to offer...
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Airbus A320 OK-LEG - flight 6D6709 from Malta (MLA) to Bratislava (BTS) via Catania (CTA) in Sicily, Italy - 18.7.2014 at 14:25
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Coastal trip from Catania to AciCastello in Sicily - Triangulum Travel
These are a few shots from a bus trip from the center of Catania up the coastal road to Aci castello and Aci trezza in June 2019.
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BUS N° 1 IN SICILIA ETNA TRAVEL SERVICE
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Bus tour in Catania, Italy - Amazing Hill view
Before some days a short was made from Poland to Italy and I paid a short visit to Catania city and had a great view of the hills and tunnels !!!
The bus tour in Catania, Italy was really enjoyable and the hills gave me rejoice and peace! I captured some moments on camera and just tried to share it with my audiences!
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CATANIA - Italy Travel Guide | Around The World
Catania is the second largest city of Sicily located on the east coast facing the Ionian Sea. It is the capital of the Metropolitan City of Catania, one of the ten biggest cities in Italy, and the seventh largest metropolitan area in Italy. The population of the city proper is 313,000 while the population of the city's metropolitan area, Metropolitan City of Catania, stood at 1,116,168 inhabitants.
Catania was destroyed by catastrophic earthquakes in 1169 and 1693, and for several volcanic eruptions from the neighbouring Mount Etna, the most violent of which was in 1669.Catania was founded in the 8th century BC. In 1434, the first university in Sicily was founded in the city. In the 14th century and into the Renaissance period, Catania was one of Italy's most important cultural, artistic and political centres.
Catania is located on the east coast of the island of Sicily, at the foot of Mount Etna.
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.
The Sicilian name u Liotru is a phonetic change of Heliodorus, a nobleman who, after trying without success to become bishop of the city, became a sorcerer and was therefore condemned to the stake. Legend has it that Heliodorus himself was the sculptor of the lava elephant and that he used to magically ride it in his fantastic travels from Catania to Constantinople. Another legend has it that Heliodorus was able to transform himself into an elephant.
The presence of an elephant in the millenary history of Catania is surely connected to both zooarcheology and popular creeds. In fact, the prehistoric fauna of Sicily from the Upper Paleolithic, included dwarf elephants. Paleontologist Othenio Abel suggested that the presence of dwarf elephants in Sicily may be the origin of the legend of the Cyclops. Ancient Greeks, after finding the skulls of dwarf elephants, about twice the size of a human skull, with a large central nasal cavity (mistaken for a large single eye-socket) supposed that they were skulls of giants with a single eye.
The Catanian Museum of Mineralogy, Paleonthology and Vulcanology holds the integral unburied skeleton of an Elephas falconeri in an excellent state of conservation. The first inhabitants of Etna molded such lavic artifact to idolize the mythical proboscidian.
Catania has a unique cuisine, with strong Sicilian traits. Dishes such as Pasta alla Norma are from the city. Pasta alla Norma is a pasta dish made out of macaroni-like penne, tomato sauce, largely sliced aubergines, and often topped with salty ricotta, or ricotta salata in Italian. Granita, a popular flavoured sherbet, is believed to hail from the city too. Blood oranges, such as the famous tarocco, are common to the city and others. Another famous plate is horse's meat, usually cooked on coals and sold on the streets and at restaurants. In Castello Ursino's surroundings are located the most famous horse's meat restaurants with lots of different price ranges. However, the most famous and traditional food are the Arancini. It is a rice croquette stuffed with any kind of ingredients such as meat sauce, mushrooms, pistachio, smoked salmon....It has an orange colour because of the saffron used. The arancini are on sale in any Tavola Calda shop and they can be eaten at any time of the day.
Catania has a commercial seaport (Catania seaport), an international airport (Catania Fontanarossa), a central railway station (Catania Centrale) and it is a main node of the Sicilian motorway system.
The motorways serving Catania are the A18 Messina-Catania and the A19 Palermo-Catania; extensions of the A18 going from Catania to Syracuse and to Gela are currently under construction.
The Circumetnea is a narrow-gauge railway that runs for 110 km (68 mi) from Catania round the base of Mount Etna. It attains the height of 976 m (3,202.10 ft) above sea level before descending to rejoin the coast at Giarre-Riposto to the North.
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Mafia in Palermo (4K) / Italy Travel Vlog #227 / The Way We Saw It
Today, a very different vlog from Palermo, Sicily.
We joined a tour called No Mafia learning about the history and presence of the Mafia and the civil antimafia movement whilst walking through the picturesque historic centre of Palermo to discover a city that is starting to rebel against the Mafia’s protection racket (Addiopizzo).
Follow us on this day discovering the myths, clichés and realities of organised crime in Sicily.
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Palermo - Italy
See the best accommodation Palermo is a city in Insular Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is located in the northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as Ziz ('flower'). Palermo then became a possession of Carthage, before becoming part of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and eventually part of the Byzantine Empire, for over a thousand years. The Greeks named the city Panormus meaning 'complete port'. From 831 to 1072 it was under Arab rule during the Emirate of Sicily when it first became a capital. The Arabs corrupted the Greek name into Balarm, the root for its present-day name. Following the Norman reconquest, Palermo became capital of a new kingdom (from 1130 to 1816), the Kingdom of Sicily. Eventually it would be united with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Two Sicilies until the Italian unification of 1860.
The population of Palermo urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 855,285, while its metropolitan area is the fifth most populated in Italy with around 1.2 million people. In the central area, the city has a population of around 650,000 people. The inhabitants are known as Palermitans or, poetically, panormiti. The languages spoken by its inhabitants are the Italian language and the Sicilian language, in its Palermitan variation.
Palermo is Sicily's cultural, economic and touristic capital. It is a city rich in history, culture, art, music and food. Numerous tourists are attracted to the city for its good Mediterranean weather, its renowned gastronomy and restaurants, its Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque churches, palaces and buildings, and its nightlife and music. Palermo is the main Sicilian industrial and commercial center: the main industrial sectors include tourism, services, commerce and agriculture. Palermo currently has an international airport, and a significant underground economy.[citation needed] In fact, for cultural, artistic and economic reasons, Palermo was one of the largest cities in the Mediterranean and is now among the top tourist destinations in both Italy and Europe. The city is also going through careful redevelopment, preparing to become one of the major cities of the Euro-Mediterranean area.
Roman Catholicism is highly important in Palermitan culture. The patron saint of the city is Saint Rosalia. Her feast day on July 15 is perhaps the biggest social event in the city. The area attracts significant numbers of tourists each year and is widely known for its colourful fruit, vegetable and fish market at the heart of Palermo, known as the Vucciria.
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Christmas 2018 in Catania - Sicily
The family spent christmas in Catania, Sicily to celebrate my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary. It was great trip together and very exciting alos due to Etna e
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PT// Pequena terrinha turística mas com uma história para contar. Na rua principal encontramos várias casinhas e igrejas ( e casas que eram igrejas). Há um concurso anual de varandas floridas, pelo que Algumas destas apresentam-se assim todo o ano. No inicio e no fim da rua principal encontramos as portas em forma de arco que delimitam a entrada da cidade, a “Porta Catania” e a “Porta Messina” .
Visita ainda ao Teatro Grego, com uma vista fabulosa para as praias, para a cidade de Taormina e para o Vulcão Etna.
EN// Visit to Taormina, which is about 45 minutes away from Messina and yes, well worth it.
Small tourist land, with a story to tell. In the main street we find several small houses and churches (and houses that were churches). There is an annual contest of flowered balconies, so some of these are presented all year round. At the beginning and at the end of the main street we find the arc-shaped doors that border the entrance of the city, Porta Catania and Porta Messina.
Visit also the Greek Theater, with a fabulous view to the beach, the city of Taormina and Mount Etna.
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