Catania holistic walking tour, 21 audio guides with meditations

For centuries this place was not just commerce. It was encounter, survival, community. Within walking distance, churches remember that food was – and still is – a gift. Here you perceive a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

In front of you – and partly below you – is the Roman Amphitheatre of Catania. It does not impose itself on the eye like other great monuments of antiquity. Here archaeology does not shout: it whispers. It emerges among the modern streets like a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

You are in front of the Cathedral of St. Agatha, and even before entering you can perceive that this place is much more than a stone building: it is a breathing organism, a crossroads of history, devotion and ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

In front of you stands the Ursino Castle, compact, massive, almost severe. Its walls of dark lava stone seem to have originated from the same earth that supports them. There is no distance between the castle and the ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Its history begins in the seventeenth century, when the Benedictine monks decided to build a church that was worthy of their rule: balance between work and spirit, between silence and action. But the land here has always had a voice... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Etna volcano and Music Kiosk. Its light and elegant wrought iron structure recalls the end of the nineteenth century, when live music was a collective ritual. Here the bands played, people met, emotions... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

You are entering the “Fera o Luni”, Catania’s Historic Point of Sale. You are not just a visitor here: you are a guest in an ancient house, alive, noisy and sincere. Every step you take is a step inside... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

That water that flows before you is not born here. It comes from afar, from the oldest heart of the city. It is the Amenano river, a watercourse that in the past crossed Catania on the surface, feeding ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

In front of you there is no water, but memory flows. What you observe is still called the Elephant Fountain, but for over half a century ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide

Meditation : Fire Root, Breath of Silence. You're in front of the Music Kiosk.
Here the city drops in volume and the gaze opens. In front of you, Etna. Present, still and alive at the same time.
Slowly close your eyes.
Put your feet on the ground.
Feel the contact with ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

This space was born in 1558, when the Benedictine monks chose to build their world here, following a simple and powerful rule: balance. Prayer and work, silence and ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

You are in a place born in 1858, when the University of Catania decided to create a space dedicated to the study of plants, scientific knowledge and the conservation of biodiversity. But what you're about to cross is not just an academic garden: it's... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

You are in one of the most important palaces of Sicilian Baroque, born after the great earthquake of 1693. Catania was wounded, broken, yet from that destruction the Paternò Castello family, princes of Biscari, chose ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

We are in 18th century Catania. It was 1768 when this monumental arch was built to celebrate a royal wedding, that of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon and Maria Carolina of Austria. At the time it was called Porta Ferdinandea. But, as often happens to this city, time and history have transformed it ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

This gate was born in 1696, after the devastating earthquake of 1693 that razed Catania to the ground. It was commissioned by the Duke of Camastra and dedicated to Viceroy Juan Francisco Pacheco, Duke of Uzeda, from whom it takes its name. But more than a political dedication, Porta Uzeda represents a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

San Giovanni Li Cuti – Meditation : The ancient breath of Catania. Between the smell of salt and the rhythmic sound of waves crashing on dark rocks, San Giovanni Li Cuti holds one of the most authentic and poetic faces of Catania.
A small fishing village nestled between the blue of the Ionian Sea and the lava tracks of Etna, where time seems to slow down, as if ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Its harmonious lines, inspired by Sicilian Baroque, seem to strike a subtle balance between strength and grace. The light stone reflects sunlight and, at the same time ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Roman Theatre and Odeon. Its origins date back to the Greek age, but it was in Roman times, between the first and second centuries after Christ, that theatre took on the form that you can guess today. The bleachers, carved in the lava stone of Etna, tell an alliance ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Via Crociferi and Porta San Benedetto. You may wonder why, in such a few meters, so many churches are concentrated. The Response is historic, but also deeply symbolic. Via Crociferi is home to four churches, and is one of the highest concentrations of sacred buildings in Europe in such a small space. It is not an accident, nor an excess ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

You are about to enter Via Etnea, the backbone of the city, a street that does not just connect places, but connects times, energies, moods. Every step you take is a dialogue between you and... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Under your feet lies a story that dates back to the eighteenth century, when this area was a private garden belonging to Prince Ignatius Paternò Castello, an enlightened man who conceived the ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!