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Extract from the Catania Travel Guides:
First impressions don't do much at all for
CATANIA
, on an initial encounter possibly the island's gloomiest spot. Built from black-grey volcanic stone, its central streets can feel suffocating, dark with the shadows of grimy, high Baroque churches and
palazzi
; and the presence of Etna dominates everywhere, in the buildings, in the brooding vistas you get of the mountain at the end of Catania's streets - even the city's main street is named after the volcano.
Yet fight the urge to change buses and run: Catania is one of the most intriguing, and historic, of Sicily's cities. Some of the island's first Gre...
read the whole Catania Travel Guides...
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