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 Car Hire & Driving in Catania, ItalyWelcome to Catania Car Hire, Sicily Island, Italy; available at Catania Airport.Sicily Island Car HireOn a crossroad in the Mediterranean, part of Europe and Africa, yet belonging to neither, Sicily was tramped across by half the ancient civilised world. As conquerors came and went on Sicily, they left behind a rich and varied cultural deposit that makes the Sicily you visit in your hire car what it is today. This has also resulted in the diverse architecture that you can see on Sicily in your hire car. Catania Car Hire Sicily IslandHaving been decimated by the earthquake of 1693, Catania was comprehensively rebuilt to much of what you can see today in your hire car. While Catania is not exactly a beautiful city as you will discover in your hire car, Catania does contains some of the most imaginative lava-built Baroque buildings on Sicily, which you can visit in your hire car. One of these buildings that you can visit in your hire car is the Piazza del Duomo which features a lava elephant, Catania’s symbol, carrying an Egyptian obelisk and offers a dramatic vista to Mount Etna. In 1736 the Norman Duomo in Catania was given a new façade by Vaccarini, who also worked on the Municipio in Catania, on the façade of Sant’Agata in Catania, on the designs of the Collegio Cutelli in Catania and on Palazzo Valle in Catania, all of which you can visit in your hire car while in Catania. Carrying on the Vaccarini tradition in Catania is Stafano Ittar’s San Placido which you can visit in your hire car while in Catania. On Via Vittorio Emanuele in your hire car you will find the Museo Belliniano which was the birth place of composer Vincenzo Bellini. You will find the lava ruins of the Teatro Romano from 21 BC, on Piazza Stesicono in your hire car. Verga’s House, home of the great Sicillian novelist Giovanni Verga from 1840 to 1922, is another place to visit in Catania, which you will find on Via Sant’Anna in your hire car. A visit to Via Crociferi in your hire car will lead you to the 18th century churches of San Francesco Borgia, San Benedetto and San Giuliano, whose interior is Vaccarini’s masterpiece of 1760. Further also the Via Crociferi in your hire car, the church of Santo Carcere which is also worth a visit while in Catania, and contains the prison of St Agatha, who was martyred in AD 253. Catania’s tourist information centre can be found on Via Cimarosa in your hire car and can help with advice on what to see and do in your hire car while in Catania. Italy Car HireHome of opera, Ferrari and designers like Giorgio Armani, Prada and Gucci; Italy is a place of diversity and culture, all free to be explored in your hire car. From the snow capped peaks of the Alpes in the north, through to the unique and magical city of Venice in the northeast of Italy, whose streets are full of water, the central Tuscany region of Italy, full of evocative landscapes; peaceful and timeless, and the main wine making region of Italy; Florence, its capital, is a great art centre. Italy’s capital Rome is home of one of the greatest amphitheatres, the Colosseum, which was commissioned in AD 72, you will also find the Vatican City here in your hire car, the world capital of Catholicism and the world’s smallest state, occupying just 43ha (106 acres). The south of Italy is rich in archaeological remains, such as the famous Pompeii. Italy also includes the beautiful islands of Sicily and Sardinia, equally worth a visit in your hire car. See our links to Venice Car Hire, Florence Car Hire, Rome Car Hire, Naples Car Hire, together with Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia for Sardinia Car Hire and Catania and Palermo for Sicily Car Hire, for details of what you may see on a trip to these places in your hire car while exploring Italy.
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