Identifier: southernitalysic00karl (find matches)
Title: Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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History. CATANIA. 37. Route. 389 Most of the antiquities are uninteresting. Thus the large amphitheatreis partly demolished, partly concealed under modern buildings, while theextensive theatre is so deeply buried in the lava that it is completelyeclipsed by the noble structures of the same kind at Taormina and Syracuse.The mediaeval buildings of Catania are also unimportant. The chief at-traction is the survey of jEtna, the finest points of viev^ being the towerof iSan Nicolb (best light before 9 a.m.) and the Villa Bellini. Those whowish to visit the Roman remains below Santa Maria delTlndirizzo andthe Piazza del Duomo, should go first to the ancient theatre, as theattendance of its custodian is necessary for the other two places. — Catania,however, afibrda good headquarters for numerous attractive excursions.Among these are those to Nicolosi (see p. 394) and to the top of Mt. iEtna,or at least as far as the Monti R. ssi (p. 399); to the Valle del Bove(p. 401); to Acireale and the

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