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San Benedetto Monastery
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The Historic Site San Benedetto Monastery located in via Crociferi, formerly a UNESCO heritage site. It is one of the symbols of the city of Catania, recognizable from the arch that opens into via Crociferi.
The Monastery of San Benedetto was originally built in 1355, to be rebuilt, after the tragic earthquake in Val di Noto, in the early 1700s. Since then, it has become one of the symbols of Catania, recognizable by the arch that opens onto via Crociferi, which is said to have been built in a single night, and which connects the big abbey - including the Church of San Benedetto, pearl of the Catania Baroque - to the small abbey.
The monastic monumental complex is, after centuries of absolute and impassable seclusion, a historical-artistic site that offers visitors and tourists a cultural tour that is the result of an extraordinary combination of history, art and contemporaneity. In compliance with the cloistered nuns who still live in the monastery today, you can access the complex by following a pre-established itinerary that allows you to admire:
- the archaeological remains of a Roman domus, found in the subsoil of the Monastery;
- some rooms of the Monastery of San Benedetto, in particular the ancient eighteenth-century parlor, formerly the set of Franco Zeffirelli's film "Storia di una capinera", based on the novel of the same name by Giovanni Verga;
- the Church of San Benedetto and its imposing entrance staircase, called the Scalinata degli Angeli.
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Via Teatro Greco, 2
95124
Telephone: 3495023822