Catania in the Region Sicily, Italy

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Discover Catania, a historic city located on the Gulf of Catania, a port of the Ionian Sea, and at the foot of Mount Etna, the highest active volcano in Europe.

Catania
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Catania (Greek: Κατάνη Katánē; Latin: Catăna and Catĭna;Arabic: Balad-al-Fil or Medinat-al-Fil, Wadi Musa and Qataniyah) is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the eponymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants(752,895 in the Metropolitan Area) it is the second-largest city on the island.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, Catania, like the rest of Sicily, became subject of various dominations by a series of Empires, dynasties and populations:
The Byzantine domination from VI c. to IX c.
The Arabic domination from IX c. to XI c.
The Norman domination from XI c. to XII c.
The Swabian domination from XII c. to XIII. c.
The Angevin domination during the XIII c.
The Aragonese domination from XIII c. to XV c.
The Spanish domination from XV. c. to XVIII. c
The Sabaudian domination during the XVIII c.
The Austrian domination during the XVIII c.
The Borbonic domination from XVIII c. up to the Unification of Italy (1861)
In 1693 the city was completely destroyed by earthquakes and by lava flows which ran over and around it into the sea. The city was then rebuilt in the precious baroque architecture that nowadays enjoys.
In 1860 General Garibaldi freed Sicily putting an end to fourteen centuries of foreign domination, and since 1861 Catania is a free city of Italy, whose history it shares since then.In the last years, Catania economy and social development somewhat faltered and in these years the city is facing economic and social stagnation.

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