Welcome to Sicily!

Welcome in Sicily, to the Catania Airport! Please, keep your luggage and go to rent your car, a wonderful trip around the island is waiting for you!

Founded in 729 BC from the Calcidyan colonists of the nearby Naxos), the city of Catania boasts a thousand-year history. Its various dominations are testified by its stratified artistic, architectural and cultural heritage. It the past was so important, that under the Aragonese dynasty Catania was the capital of the Kingdom of Sicily, and since 1434 at the behest of King Alfonso V it is the seat of the oldest university on the island. In the course of its history it has been repeatedly affected by volcanic eruptions (the most impressive, in historical times, is that of 1669, which is testified by a beautiful fresco painting in the Cathedral, which you can see in a gigapixel image) and by earthquakes (the most catastrophic mentioned were those of 1169 and 1693).
The baroque of its historic center was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, together with that of seven municipalities in the Val di Noto (Caltagirone, Militello in Val di Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo Acreide, Ragusa and Scicli), in 2002 .