In Catania Pronto Tours runs the walk through the aristocratic city, from Palazzo dei Chierici to the Cathedral of Sant'Agata and Palazzo degli Elefanti, with a stop at Palazzo Biscari, the most important private palace in the city, for the visit and the tasting. Street food, starting with arancini, completes the day.
Catania is a city of volcanic energy, with its Baroque blackened by lava stone, its colourful markets and the liveliest nightlife in Sicily. The successive rulers who followed one another left overlapping traces: the city reads as a tangle of cultures and stories, not as an orderly sequence.
The UNESCO-listed historic centre, the Pescheria fish market, Via Etnea and the seafront offer different settings within a few hundred metres, and the closeness of the volcano opens the option of alternating a day in the city with an excursion at altitude. It is a balance that works for corporate events, team building and multi-day incentive programmes.
Catania is the logistical base of a Sicilian programme: the airport is close and Mount Etna is a short distance away, which makes it a convenient foothold for incentive travel. Its palaces accommodate corporate events, while the city hosts MICE, weddings, extended family group travel and roots tourism itineraries.
The walk through aristocratic Catania
The route begins at Palazzo dei Chierici and continues towards the Cathedral of Sant'Agata and Palazzo degli Elefanti, the town hall overlooking the main square. In a few hundred metres the walk crosses the traces left by the successive rulers of the city.
The food part has its place along the route as well: arancini, which in Catania are the benchmark of street food.
Palazzo Biscari and Sicilian Baroque
Palazzo Biscari is the most important private palace in Catania and one of the most significant examples of Sicilian Baroque. The stop includes a visit to the interiors and a tasting, and it is the point at which the walk leaves the public space of the square to step into a private interior.