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  2. Catania Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    Chapel of St. Agatha Detail of the 11th-century Norman transept. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Agatha (Italian: Cattedrale metropolitana di Sant'Agata), usually known as the Catania Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Catania), is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy.

  3. Piazza del Duomo, Catania - Wikipedia

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    Piazza del Duomo. The Duomo di Catania or Cattedrale di Sant'Agata stands on the east side of the square. Originally constructed in 1078–1093, on the ruins of an ancient Roman Thermae (Achillean Baths), like nearly all of Catania, the devastating 1693 earthquake, leveled most of the structure, and Giovanni Battista Vaccarini designed a Baroque structure and façade in 1711.

  4. Gallipoli Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    The Gallipoli Cathedral, formally the Co-Cathedral Basilica of Saint Agatha the Virgin (Italian: Basilica Concattedrale di Sant'Agata Vergine), is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Gallipoli in Apulia, Italy. Completed in 1696, the Baroque church is a minor basilica and the co-cathedral of the Diocese of Nardò-Gallipoli.

  5. Badia di Sant'Agata - Wikipedia

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    View of the facade and dome of the Badia, on the right of the photo is a portion of Catania Cathedral. Badia di Sant'Agata or Abbey of St Agatha refers to an 18th-century Roman Catholic church and attached female convent located on Via Vittorio Emanuele #182 in the center of Catania, region of Sicily, Southern Italy.

  6. Sant'Agata al Carcere, Catania - Wikipedia

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    The main altarpiece is a depiction of the Martyrdom of Saint Agatha by “Bernardino Niger grecus” (1588). The painting depicts the Ancient Roman amphitheater in Catania behind the saint, part of which has been uncovered in Piazza Stesicoro in front of the facade of the adjacent Sant'Agata alla Fornace.

  7. Agatha of Sicily - Wikipedia

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    Minne di Sant'Agata, a typical Sicilian sweet shaped as a breast, representing the cut breasts of Saint Agatha. Saint Agatha is often depicted iconographically carrying her excised breasts on a platter, as in Bernardino Luini's Saint Agatha (1510–1515) in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, in which Agatha contemplates the breasts on a standing ...

  8. Festival of Saint Agatha (Catania) - Wikipedia

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    Festa di Sant'Agata, candalora. The Festival of Saint Agatha (Italian: La festa di sant'Agata; Sicilian: A fest' 'i sant'Àjita) is the most important religious festival of Catania, Sicily, commemorating the life of the city's patron saint, Agatha of Sicily. It is among the largest Catholic religious festivals in the world, in terms of ...

  9. List of cathedrals in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Kathedrale Mariä Himmelfahrt und St. Kassian / Cattedrale di S. Maria Assunta e S. Cassiano: Bolzano-Brixen: Brixen, Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Cassian [6] co-cathedral, minor basilica Brugnato Cathedral Cattedrale di S. Pietro, S. Lorenzo e S. Colombano: La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato