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Catania

Catania is a city of 310,000 people on the eastern coast of Sicily at the foot of , the biggest volcano in Europe. It is the second largest city in 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Stadio Angelo Massimino and Teatro Massimo Bellini.

Stadium
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is a multi-use stadium in Catania, Italy. It is used mostly for football matches and the home of Calcio Catania. The stadium was built in 1935 by architect Raffaele Leone on behalf of the company owned by Antonio Ferro and holds 23,266 people.

Theater building
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The is an opera house located on Piazza Vincenzo Bellini in Catania, , southern . Named after the local-born composer Vincenzo Bellini, it was inaugurated on 31 May 1890 with a performance of the composer's masterwork, Norma.

Church
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The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Agatha, usually known as the , is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Catania, , . It was the seat of the Bishops of Catania until 1859, when the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese, and since then has been the seat of the Archbishops of Catania.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canalicchio and Giudecca di Catania.

Village
is a frazione of the comune of in the Metropolitan City of Catania, , southern . It is located very close to the city of Catania.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Neighborhood
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is a small seaside village in the eastern part of the city of Catania, with one of the most famous beaches of the city. It has been part of the II Circoscrizione since 2013, resulting from the aggregation of the former II and IV Municipalities, thus also including the districts of Picanello-Ognina/Barriera-Canalicchio, Villaggio Cardinale Dusmet, and Guardia.

Catania

Latitude
37.5024° or 37° 30′ 9″ north
Longitude
15.0874° or 15° 5′ 15″ east
Population
298,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
CTA
United Nations Location Code
IT CTA
Open location code
8F9QG32P+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 67253693
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2525068
Wiki­data ID
Q1903
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Yue Chinese—“Catania” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κατάνη”
  • Arabic: “قطانية”
  • Arabic: “كاتانيا”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الفيل”
  • Aragonese: “Catania”
  • Armenian: “Կատանիա”
  • Asturian: “Catania”
  • Aymara: “Catania”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kataniya”
  • Basque: “Catania”
  • Belarusian: “Катанія”
  • Bengali: “কাতানিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ক্যাটাানিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Catania”
  • Breton: “Catania”
  • Bulgarian: “Катания”
  • Catalan: “Catània”
  • Cebuano: “Catania”
  • Chechen: “Катани”
  • Chinese: “Catania”
  • Chinese: “卡坦尼亞”
  • Chinese: “卡塔尼亚”
  • Chinese: “卡塔尼亞”
  • Chinese: “卡塔納”
  • Chinese: “卡塔纳”
  • Chuvash: “Катани”
  • Corsican: “Catania”
  • Cree: “Catania”
  • Croatian: “Catania”
  • Czech: “Catania”
  • Czech: “Katánie”
  • Danish: “Catania”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Katanya”
  • Dutch: “Catania”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قطانيه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاتانيا”
  • Esperanto: “Katanio”
  • Estonian: “Catania”
  • Finnish: “Catania”
  • French: “Catane”
  • Galician: “Catania”
  • Georgian: “კატანია”
  • German: “Catania”
  • Greek: “Κατάνη”
  • Greek: “Κατάνια”
  • Gujarati: “કેટેનિયા”
  • Hebrew: “קטניה”
  • Hindi: “केटानिया”
  • Hungarian: “Catania”
  • Icelandic: “Catania”
  • Inari Sami: “Catania”
  • Indonesian: “Catania”
  • Interlingua: “Catania”
  • Irish: “Catania”
  • Italian: “Catania”
  • Japanese: “カターニア”
  • Kannada: “ಕಟೇನಿಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Catania”
  • Kazakh: “Катания”
  • Kirghiz: “Катания”
  • Korean: “카타니아”
  • Kotava: “Catania”
  • Kurdish: “Catania”
  • Kurdish: “Katanya”
  • Ladin: “Catania”
  • Latin: “Catana”
  • Latin: “Catina”
  • Latvian: “Katānija”
  • Ligurian: “Catània”
  • Lithuanian: “Katanija”
  • Lombard: “Catania”
  • Luxembourgish: “Catania”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Catania”
  • Macedonian: “Катанија”
  • Malagasy: “Catania”
  • Malay: “Catania”
  • Maltese: “Catania”
  • Maltese: “Katanja”
  • Marathi: “कातानिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Catania”
  • Mingrelian: “კატანია”
  • Mongolian: “Катаниа”
  • Neapolitan: “Catania”
  • Northern Frisian: “Catania”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Catania”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Catania”
  • Norwegian: “Catania”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Catània”
  • Ossetian: “Катани”
  • Persian: “کاتانیا”
  • Piemontese: “Catania”
  • Polish: “Katania”
  • Portuguese: “Catania”
  • Portuguese: “Catânia”
  • Quechua: “Catania”
  • Romanian: “Catania”
  • Russian: “Катания”
  • Sanskrit: “कटानिया”
  • Sardinian: “Catania”
  • Scots: “Catania”
  • Serbian: “Катанија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Catania”
  • Sicilian: “Catania”
  • Silesian: “Catania”
  • Sinhala: “කැටානියා”
  • Slovak: “Catania”
  • Slovenian: “Catania”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاتانیا”
  • Spanish: “Catania”
  • Swahili: “Catania”
  • Swedish: “Catania”
  • Swiss German: “Catania”
  • Tagalog: “Catania”
  • Talysh: “Catania”
  • Talysh: “Katanijə”
  • Tamil: “சாத்தானிய”
  • Tatar: “Катания”
  • Telugu: “కేటేనియ”
  • Tetum: “Catania”
  • Thai: “กาตาเนีย”
  • Thai: “คาตาเนีย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Catania”
  • Turkish: “Catana”
  • Turkish: “Catania”
  • Turkish: “Katanya”
  • Twi: “Catania”
  • Ukrainian: “Катанія”
  • Urdu: “کاتانیا”
  • Uzbek: “Kataniya”
  • Venetian: “Catania”
  • Venetian: “Catània”
  • Vietnamese: “Catania”
  • Volapük: “Catania”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Catania”
  • Welsh: “Catania”
  • Western Frisian: “Catania”
  • Western Panjabi: “کاٹانیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡塔尼亚”
  • Xhosa: “Catania”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡坦尼亞”
  • “Catania”
  • “Catanie”

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