Basilica Maria Santissima dell'Elemosina

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• Palazzo dell'Università

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• Quattro Canti

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  Four Corners

  A square at the intersection of Via Etnea with Via di Sangiuliano. It is somewhat reminiscent to the other octagonal squares in Italy: Quattro Canti at the piazza Vigliena in Palermo, Quattro Canti in Paternò, and Quattro Fontane in Rome, next to the church of San Carlino by Francesco Borromini.

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World Heritage Sites

• Chiesa di San Giuliano

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• Palazzo degli Elefanti

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  Palazzo Municipale

  Construction begin in 1696. In 1736 a statue of an elephant carrying an obelisk was erected in front of the palazzo.

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• Via Etnea

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  Walk the main shopping avenue, running north from the Piazza del Duomo has most of the city's imposing building and is busy throughout the day and evening. Lots of churches. This road is the equivalent of Las Ramblas in Barcelona, so in the evenings the local people put on their Sunday clothes and walk at a relaxed pace along this avenue.

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• Via Crociferi

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  It's a centre of an ecclesiastical architecture in Catania: in no more than 200 m there are 4 churches, 3 monasteries and a college.

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