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Catania is the second-largest city in Sicily, after Palermo, and among the ten largest cities in Italy. It is located on Sicily’s east coast, at the base of the active volcano, Mount Etna, and it faces the Ionian Sea. It is the capital of the 58-municipality region known as the Metropolitan City of Catania, which is the seventh-largest metropolitan city in Italy. The population of the city proper is 311,584, while the population of the Metropolitan City of Catania is 1,107,702.
Catania was founded in the 8th century BC by Chalcidian Greeks. The city has weathered multiple geologic catastrophes: it was almost completely destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake in 1169. A major eruption and lava flow from nearby Mount Etna nearly swamped the city in 1669 and it suffered severe devastation from the 1693 Sicily earthquake.
During the 14th century, and into the Renaissance period, Catania was one of Italy’s most important cultural, artistic, and political centers. It was the site of Sicily’s first university, founded in 1434. It has been the native or adopted home of some of Italy’s most famous artists and writers, including the composers Vincenzo Bellini and Giovanni Pacini, and the writers Giovanni Verga, Luigi Capuana, Federico De Roberto, and Nino Martoglio.
Catania today is the industrial, logistical, and commercial center of Sicily. Its airport, the Catania-Fontanarossa Airport, is the largest in Southern Italy. However, the central “old town” of Catania features exuberant late-baroque architecture, prompted after the 1693 earthquake, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The ancient indigenous population of the Sicels named their villages after the geographical attributes of their location. The Sicilian word, katane, means “grater, flaying knife, skinning place” or a “crude tool apt to pare”. Other translations of the name are “harsh lands”, “uneven ground”, “sharp stones”, or “rugged or rough soil”. The latter etymologies are easily justifiable since, for many centuries following an eruption, the city has always been rebuilt within its black-lava landscape. Wikipedia
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Oct 14, 2021 @ 07:58:55
A beautiful story of Catania! Well written thanks for sharing!🙂😊👍
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Oct 14, 2021 @ 12:56:35
Thanks! The source was Wikipedia, thanks for your visit.
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Oct 14, 2021 @ 13:01:40
☺🙂My pleasure. God bless you.
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