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Piazza Duomo

Piazza Duomo

Catania’s Piazza del Duomo is the main square of the city. In it converge three roads, namely the Via Etna, the historic town board, the via Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Via Vittorio Emanuele II that runs through it from east to west. On the eastern side of the square stands the Cathedral, dedicated to the patron saint of the city that is celebrated on February 5th

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FOUNTAIN ELEPHANT


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A monumental work made between 1735 and 1737 by the architect Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, placed in the center of the Piazza del Duomo in Catania.

Its main element is a black basalt statue of an elephant, commonly called “u Liotru” and considered the emblem of the Sicilian city.

An ancient legend shows the elephant origin of Catania, which since 1239 is the official symbol of the city that legend says that when Catania was first inhabited, all fierce and dangerous animals were put to flight by an elephant , to which the people of Catania, in a sign of gratitude, erected a statue, they called with the popular name of liotru, which is a dialect correction of the name of Elidoro, a Catania duct of the eighth century, which was made to burn alive in 778 by the bishop of Catania St Leo II the Wonderworker, because Elidoro, having failed to become bishop of the city, disturbed the sacred functions with various spells, including one to walk the stone elephant.

“And ‘nta lu chianu there principiata Of the great cathedrals a funtana, Maistusa, well done, ottangulata. The nobility and Mo populu ccu gana Of tri stones fortunes located Irgeru stu large sources in the Rumana. “(EN)” And in the square was begun before the great Cathedral fountain, majestic, well-made, octagonal. The nobility and the people ardently by the placement of the three types of rocks have erected this great source to the Roman “(Antonio Zacco, 1735)

 

 

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