Catania CITY TOUR! One of Sicily's Most Confusing Cities? Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2024
- In this episode, we get a little lost in Catania as we attempt to tell the difference between universities and monasteries! We find Sicily's largest church, get lost in the hallways of Europes 2nd largest monastery, and tour a 13th-century royal castle in Catania, Italy.
Catania is the second-largest Sicilian city after Palermo. It was destroyed to the ground seven times by volcanic eruptions and earthquakes from Mount Etna. The most recent catastrophic events in 1169 and 1693 forced the inhabitants to rebuild the city from scratch. The origin of the city dates back to 730 B.C. during the first arrival of ancient Greeks and this was the beginning of a long series of invasions and conquests.
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0:00 Intro
0:46 La Collegiata & Prestipino
2:35 San Benedetto Church
4:31 San Nicolò l'Arena
6:03 Benedictine Monastery
10:28 Porta Garibaldi
11:10 Ursino Castle
14:14 Via Crociferi
14:34 Villa Bellini
16:00 Roman Amphitheatre
17:48 Via Santa Filomena
19:11 Coming Up Next
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Next up, we continue our journey in Catania as we visit the famous fish market, Piazza Duomo, and venture a little out of the city to explore the gorgeous coastal towns of Aci Trezza and Aci Castello! ☀️
Via Playa, dove abita mia nonna, la strada è rumorosa, viva fin dal mattino presto e man mano che la percorri arrivi ai lidi💗
@@sintaklaas6427 everyone is welcome in Catania!
Just came back from Sicily yesterday. Palermo is my favorite but Catania as the best arancini...
every single day should start with a breakfast like that 😃
We completely agree Alessandro! 😂💯
“To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.” So wrote Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, after visiting the island in 1787. When his musings were published as part of Italian Journey, many flocked to the island, buoyed by his descriptions of its enchanting beauty.
We love that quote, it is spot on Salvo! 😍🇮🇹 It really is unlike any other place!
@@TheGlobalExpats Guys come to Siracusa and my town Palazzolo Acreide,i'll show my beauties!
Vero 😊
@@giuseppenativo2123 Nope, it is the opposite. Sicily is just a piece of the mosaic, and without Italy it wouldn't be the same. These are facts, yours is just a sterile opinion.
@@maxxam2774 Sicily has always been, until today, the most strategic piece of the puzzle (i borrow your words) in the Mediterranean area, as a commercial and a military asset. Ask to the Americans.
The most important politic elections are in Sicily, not in Piemonte or Veneto.
Sicily, gives to the rest of the country, the products of the agriculture they need to do not import shit from the other countries.
Sicily is, historically, a money machine for tourism and it's growing.
Sicily gives to the north the surplus of graduates they need to manage their business or to teach in the schools or to treat patients in the hospitals. The number of graduates, old school graduates, in the south is enormously greater than in the north of the country.
Sicily produced two Nobel prize. Can you tell the same of any other piece of the puzzle?
It doesn't look like a piece at this point.
I'm from Catania, and I find it fantastic that my city is appreciated. You are very nice, subscribed to the channel, ciao ciao 💕
Peccato sia sporca come tutta la parte meridionale dell'Italia purtroppo. Partendo dal centro fino alle periferie, fazzoletti, cartacce, bottiglie, lattine... Peccato veramente!
Strade anche pessime con segnaletica orizzontale altrettanto pessima.
Headed to Catalina shortly. Appreciate all the tips!
We love your videos of Sicily.... you both are very charismatic and make a great couple.... keep up the great work !
Ahh thank you so much Charles, that means a lot to us! 🥰
I have just order a trip to Catania in the end of May. I looking big forward to these. Thanks for your videos. Have a nice day herefrom from Copenhagen. :-)
Well done! You visited almost all the important things to see except Palazzo Biscari and Parco Gioeni, at the end of the northern part of via Etnea, which is even bigger than Villa Bellini and, thanks to its high position, shows a wide panoramic of the entire city and of the gulf
Amazing city from Indonesia 🇮🇩
This is very good presentation of Catania. Quite different from other tours. You went dip inside places the other tours wouldn't go. The restaurants look great. I'm looking forward to part 2 of the tour. Thanks for this video.
Ahh thank you so much Esther! 🥰
Another amazing high quality video! Catania is so often missed when people tour Sicily so I’m rapt you’ve dedicated time to show us this Baroque gem! Can’t wait for the next instalment
Your place is a dump !!! I’m here right now and it’s filthy !!! There are third world countries better looking than this place . Crime is high here and I just came from Siracusa to be depressed here , please people skip this place and save your money
Dearest Mischa and Matteo. I really appreciate using your time to share with us your video of Catania. I travel with my family annually on Sicily. My mother-in-law did in the last 45 years, staying in the same hotel on Taormina. I can now persuade my husband to visit Catania and actually stay a few days there. I am so excited! We were fascinated to visit Trapani, Erice, San Vito Lo Capo, Cefalù in the past. Stay safe.💋
My Catania
Thank you for all your videos of Sicily. I wish we could have discovered your videos before our trip to Catania. We were there just over a month ago and loved it. Watching your videos we missed a couple of spots in Catania. We hope that on our next trip to Sicily we will spend another day there and see the places that we missed. I have to say Sicily has been my favorite spot so far of all the places that I have been. My wife and I plan to go back again in the near future and see more of the places we didn't get a lot of time to see. I look forward to more of you videos in the future and just saw that you will be Tuscany next! I can't wait. Good luck and safe travels!
Sono stato più volte in Sicilia .Vedendo questo video mi viene la voglia di ritornare.Complimenti x il video , due veri professionisti .Un saluto dalla Calabria.
This is great, as usual. Thank you!
We’re so happy you enjoyed it, James! 🤗🇮🇹
This makes me kinda homesick, despite still living in Catania right now.
Weird.. ahahah I guess I would love to rediscover my city as a tourist
Watching all of your videos! Probably the best italian travel vlog on the internet!! Great content, great places, great couple! Keep the fun while doing this amazing tour 😍
Aww thank you so much for your kind words Alessandro, that really means a lot to us! 🥰
This seems to be a very interesting place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!
Love the videos guys keep up the great work.we often visit Catania being from Malta,just a 25 minute flight for us.
Good job and always stay safe
Ps we love to watch you guys eating different type of foods too would love to see more of that 😀😀
Matteo thanks for your passion in discovering Sicilian culture. The monastery is no longer run by the Vatican and it’s used by the university, where Literature is taught. Hope this makes it a bit clearer
Hello, I happen to be a student in the Benedettini Monastery, and while it is a university (a section of the university of Catania actually) we don't study only literature, but also philosophy, communication science and more
Thank you Giorgio, I absolutely love learning about all of it! Yes, thank you, that makes a lot more sense 😅
Sicily is amazing!
It really is! 😍🇮🇹
Great video guys keep up the good work it's always a joy to watch you both 🇮🇹✌
Ahh thanks so much Fred, means a lot! 🥰
Bellissimo video ragazzi.
Come tutti gli altri che avete fatto 😎👍❤️
Grazie mille! 🥰❤️
So much missed opportunity to say, “The Floor is Lava!”
You’re so right - Can’t believe we didn’t think of that!! 😂😂😂
Favourite couple...😍🥰❤ and amazing video as always guys!❤
Ahh thank you so much Nikol!! 🥰❤️
What a cracking video thank you
Ahh thanks Vito! 🥰
Gorgeus video guys!! Keep it up!!
Ahh thank you so much Ale! 🥰
My grandmother last name was Ursino, and his father was from Catania, he left the Island and went to Argentina at the beginning of the XX century after killing a man for the love of a woman. A fisherman and captain of his own fishing boat he died with his sinking boat off the coast of southern Argentina. An incredible story that is part of my ancestry.
Woah what a crazy life to have lived and an even crazier story to have as part of your ancestry, Alfredo! He must have been an extremely interesting man! 😅
@@TheGlobalExpats It's also strange to think of one of your ancestors as an "uccisore".
Wow magical… may his spirit live on through his beautiful family x thanks for sharing
Great one ! Thx
Thanks Chris! 🤗🇮🇹
Omgoodness! Thank you for suggesting Vuciata Kitchen❤️ The Pistacchio di Bronte Delicious 😋
Thanks for your comment Jaques, we are so happy you enjoyed it! 🥰
Love your video keep up the good work 👍
Thank you so much Paul! 🥰
Besides the food, I always look forward to the views inside the churches and monasteries there in Italy. Thanks for posting your trip to Catania. Your videos are so relaxed and contain great information for travelers. Happy trails!
Aww thank you so much Natalie! 🥰 We agree, they are some of the best things about traveling in Italy! 😍🇮🇹
I’m here now and this place is a dump !!! Dirty as hell and it looks shady and sceevey , people don’t waste your money coming here , it’s such a let down
Complimenti per i vostri video, la qualità è davvero alta. Siete molto bravi.
Grazie mille Gigi! 🥰
Next time you visit a public park look for tributes to Francesco Crispi ( born in Sicily ) the prime minister who United Italy 🇮🇹 as a country the viewers would appreciate the Italian history
You guys made me want a charcuterie board now 😂 Loved the harry potter & disney Hercules reference, that's exactly where my mind went 🤣Can't wait for the next one, feels like I'm right next to you on this adventure 🥰
Ahh thank you so much Manu! 🤗 I’m glad someone appreciated my movie references! 😂 So happy to have you here in our little community 🥰
Sareste perfetti per presentare un programma di viaggi in TV .. complimenti
Grazie mille Antonio! 🥰
Very good video. I wonder if you missed the fashionable Corso Italia with boutiques and elegant stores that you don't even see in Florence. Unfortunately Catania has not been discovered yet. You should also go inside the city hall (Municipio), where you will see the most amazing paintings. And, what about the opera house? Teatro Massimo Bellini, a jewel.
I hope it will not be discovered because it will be gentrified.
Another fantastic video!! Well done. I love all the info and history given. Keep it up!! ❤️
Ahh thank you so much for your kind words, it means a lot! 🥰❤️
I am a student at the monastery/university/library. It was a monastery since a while ago, now all of it is an university, like teachers’ rooms were monks’ bedrooms, some classrooms were reunion areas and so on. The library is near the entrance that you showed in the video, it was the library of the monastry, now it is closed to public, sadly.
Ahh thank you so much for clarifying that for us Alessandro! We were so confused 😅 We were really looking forward to going into the library so we were bummed we couldn’t go in when we got there, it looks gorgeous in the photos we saw online!
You missed the Cathedral, the Terme Achilliane in its underground, Terme dell'Indirizzo and Terme della Rotonda.
Grazie ragazzi per avere fatto vedere quanto è bella la nostra città.
Ooh quanto mi manca Catania!! Bel video!!
Grazie mille Stefania! 🥰
Ahhh me too ❤❤
Good work
Thank you Darshan! 🥰
Beautiful city. Another good reason to go back to Sicily in future travels. Thanks so much for doing these videos.
We’re so happy you’re enjoying our videos grandma Bev! 🥰 It really is a gorgeous city and definitely worth a visit! 😍🇮🇹
This city is a trash dump. Very disappointed
Oh Catania. My sweet home 😭
It’s a beautiful place to call home Sergio! 😍🇮🇹🥰
fantastic❤️
Thanks Mark! 🥰
Grazie, sempre bravissimi!!!!👋👋👋
Grazie mille Rosalia! 🥰❤️
It’s the university city!! Amazing huh. The old and the new! I’m curious to see if u will mention the old Catania. So the whole city is basically the university. The central leaning district for so many things. Amazing city! Thanks for showing this great city respect guys bless
Great i love Catania. Have you visited the botanical garden ? That is also great in the middel of busy Catania, rest and cool
Hey! Yes we did, it was absolutely beautiful! 🥰
Love the videos! Did you visit Caltanissetta? That's our heritage and we're wanting to learn about it.
Amazing 😍✨😍✨
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My city, i
Catania was awesome, we had a great time 😍 It’s such a beautiful city, you’re lucky to be from there! 🤗🇮🇹
Love your videos
Thank you so much! 🥰
So glad you've enjoyed your trip in my city 😍
Grazie mille Fabrizio! 🥰
I love your traveling video. 🎀💓💓💓🎀
Ahh thanks Frank! 🥰
Thank you, guys, for visiting Catania and for sharing this video on TH-cam! It is great!
Please let me clarify two things.
The monastery of the Benedictines was bought by the University of Catania some decades ago. This is why you will not find there any monks nor religious functions, but just students, classes and professors: nowadays it is, for all intents and purposes, a university building.
The Roman amphitheater has never been reached by lava. It is under the ground because, still in Roman times, it was dismissed and afterwards the city basically "grew" on it. The main building of the faculty of law of the University of Catania ("Villa Cerami") and many other buildings and streets in that area (including the "rainbow street" that you visited, which is actually Via Penninello [Via Cerami is after the staircase]) are literally built on the amphitheater. That is: when you were stepping on the "rainbow street", you were actually stepping on the amphitheater 😃
omg! AWESOME
Thank you so much! 🥰🇮🇹
Loved the portrayal of Catania. Only comment I have, is maybe carry a scarf/shawl that is lightweight in your back pack so that you can put it on when you enter churches so your shoulders are covered. May seem archaic .We used to have to cover our hair when we went to church, so times have changed, but covered shoulders for women is always a good idea. Just a suggestion. Keep up the great videos.
Thanks Joanne! 🥰 Yes, I keep a little wrap with me for when we go inside churches! 🤗
My home city… thanks guys
It's such an incredible city to call home, Cessca, you're so lucky! 😍
@@TheGlobalExpatsthank u again for the respect and class. U guys are beautiful inside and out! May ur adventurous spirits sour and may u both enjoy, and stay safe every minute! Honestly my favourite couple to watch travelling and enjoying themselves!! Bless guys
You make me cry :( that my university I spend years in that corridors I hope you have fun in my town ;)
Ahh that’s awesome Guglielmo, it’s a beautiful university! 😍 Catania was so much fun, we had a great time there! 🥰🇮🇹
Hi Global Expats,
I wanted to ask what floor level did you stay on at the La Collegiata Guest House? I love your guys videos. Keep up the good work ❤
Merveilleuse ville , c est toute une histoire ! Tout est beau ici et la vie est belle et interessante a Catania . Merci Amitie !
The Benedettini monastery is now a university, is where I study, is not a monastery anymore, it was in the past.. all those doors with the rooms are now modern teacher studios and many are classrooms, very big, inside and also in the outside part, like in the front, when you go out of the monastery.
Hello you 2! I saw the new James Bond movie last night and it features Matera (bottom of the Italian boot, near Bari). I hope you get your car soon and head onto the boot. Although Matera is not well known, as more people see the movie who love old Italian hill towns, more attention will be given to Matera. I'm looking forward to seeing you there.
Hey Peter, that is awesome, we will have to give the movie a watch! Yes we hope to get our car this year, the process is taking a little bit more time than initially expected but when we visit Basilicata, we will definitely be covering Matera! 🥰
16:44 Just went there today and unfortunately this entire place is closed to the public, contructions allover the place, there is so much moss and grass that has uprooted and taken over. It's a shame that it has been left to decay over time. Thankfuly there is another amphitheater that is in better condition and larger and perhaps even older that is walking distance from this. It is called "Teatro Romano De Catania". I highly everyone go and check that one out.
Very nice and informative video.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻I’m planing on going to Palermo and Catania. For 10 days in total… Can u give me any advice of where to begin and extra tips, my visit will be from September 13 to the 22
Just wanted to add that I was visiting Sicily in November 2022 and I was NEVER asked to produce a Green Pass. That goes for my additional trip to Milan.
Number 1!
Yes you are Gian, yes you are! 😎🏆
amaaazing video as always!! both of you have gotten a nice tan i see!!! ❤️
Thank you Leohana! Haha yes we bronzed quite nicely, which will hopefully stay for a few extra weeks now with the increasing cold! 😅❤️
18:38 he drink sardinia beer...pretty perfect !
It's definitely one of the best, Lara! 🍺😎
The reason why you found student desks at the monastery is because it is also used as an universitary building
Thank you Elisabeth, that makes sense! 😅
Grandi
bravi
Grazie Francesco! 🥰🇮🇹
And could you still swim now, or go into the sea, or the water temperature is not ok for that this time? 🤷🏻♀️
Cool Video What Kind of cam you use?
Thank you, we used an iPhone 11 Pro here! 🥰
@@TheGlobalExpats with a Gimbal? Video is so smooth can Not believe IT IS a Smartphone
there is another roman amphitheater it is the Odeon, and then there are two thermal
My home city! Bedda Catania
Thanks for a great video! I have a question about the Green Pass. My understanding is that it is required for EU residents, but not travelers from outside the EU. Everything I've read states our CDC white vaccination card will be sufficient. Is this correct? Thanks! We'll be in Sicily soon. Can't wait!
Thanks Melody! 🥰 Yes, it seems that the CDC white vaccination cards are being accepted here - we’ve met several people from the US who have said that’s what they’ve been using and it’s being accepted, so you shouldn’t have a problem! We hope you have an amazing trip! 🤗🇮🇹
@@TheGlobalExpats Thanks for all of the tips!!!
I really like the music. Where can I find it?
Thank you Doeni! We get all our music from Epidemic Sound but it can also be found on Spotify 🥰 bit.ly/EpidemicSoundTGE
Best italy Catania 😍🤗
Are you guys going north of Italy i know that you mentioned that you are going to all regions...please go to Veneto, vicenza.
Yes, we will be heading up north at some point, and Vicenza is definitely on our list! 😍🇮🇹
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Will you be in Sicily in 2 weeks? I’d love to meet up with you when my wife and I visit.
Returning.
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The coffee with Granita??🤔
Ci sono stata a Catania
still can't find out how to get a green pass here in the states. any help?
You can actually just use your US vaccination card as proof! I think only EU citizens can get the green pass, but they do accept the US one 🤗
Is there a volcano near catania?
It’s the old Catania. It’s one of the only parts of the old city that can be seen from the new (street view) in the 90’s they stopped allowing people under there because students and teachers went missing and no one is alive today to tell us how big it is down there
Oh wow, that's crazy! 😳
Is my city 😍😍😍😍
It’s such a beautiful place Olga! 😍🇮🇹
Can u tell the must visit places in italy for 10 days trip ?
Hey Subarna, are you looking just for Sicily or for the whole of Italy?
Whole italy
You were in Monastero dei Benedettini which is HUGE. Basically is an entire BLOCK.
Hahaha yes, eventually we figured it out! 😂 It is massive!!
pl indicate prices of the food in USD to be more informative. Thank u
Super von Mario scrofani fellbach germany ❤❤❤😢😢😢
Arte , cultura, musica, cucina tipica...questa città situata tra il vulcano Etna e il mare è davvero affascinante ❤️
One of the best cities.
We couldn’t agree more! 😍
Hey guys what’s up no clubs? Bars?? Nightlife ?? Parties ??