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Benedectine Monastery
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It’s a “jewel” of the late Sicilian Baroque architecture and an example of integration among different periods, it is shown in UNESCO’s World Heritage Site.
The intriguing story of the monastery began in 1558 and continues today, thanks to the intervention of recovery work by the architect De Carlo and the Technical Office of University.
The former plexus monastic, compromised for over a century of civil use (Astronomical Observatory, several schools and military barracks), has been recognized as Contemporary Architecture Building by Sicilian Region and from 1977 houses the Humanities faculty.
The rigor of neoclassical architectural bodies contrasts with the eighteenth-century carnival of late Baroque and the eclectic Caffeaos main elevations of the Cloister of the Levant, until the discovery in the basement sixteenth century, Roman mosaic of residential areas, fully integrated with contemporary fixtures.
Since 2010 the Association Officine Culturali took charge of its value through multiple public initiatives: guided tours, workshops for children and adults, cultural events and entertainment.
Guided tours conducted by Officine Culturali allow, in an hour and a half or so, the vision of the most significant areas of the Benedictine Monastery.
Tours depart every hour.
INFO & ORARI
Piazza Dante Alighieri, 32
95124 Catania
Telefono:
095 7102767 / 334 9242464
info@officineculturali.net