Chiesa di Santa Maria della Valle di Josaphat ★
The Norman church-fortress of the Gancia on the hill of Paternò, commissioned by Countess Adelasia del Vasto.
Paternò: 5 places to start with
- Churches Chiesa di Santa Maria della Valle di Josaphat The Norman church-fortress of the Gancia on the hill of Paternò, commissioned by Countess Adelasia del Vasto.
- Castles Castello di Poira The ruins of the Baroness's castle on the Calanchi hills of Paternò, scene of a kidnapping by brigands.
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Castles Castello Normanno di Paternò The keep built in 1072 by Count Roger, with views over Etna and the Simeto valley. - Churches Chiesa del Santissimo Salvatore The church of the Santissimo Salvatore in Paternò, with its octagonal hall and a statue from the friary on the hill.
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Churches Chiesa della Madonna dell'Itria The Teutonic Knights' church in Paternò, with the Falconieri tower as its bell tower.
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Churches and places of worship
15Chiesa del Santissimo Salvatore ★
The church of the Santissimo Salvatore in Paternò, with its octagonal hall and a statue from the friary on the hill.
Chiesa della Madonna dell'Itria ★
The Teutonic Knights' church in Paternò, with the Falconieri tower as its bell tower.
Chiesa dello Spirito Santo
The elliptical church of the Spirito Santo in Paternò, opened in 2000, with a large German organ.
Chiesa di Cristo Re
Paternò's former church of the Purgatorio, of 1884, with its white façade and mosaics of saints.
Chiesa di San Biagio
The ruin of the seventeenth-century church of San Biagio in the centre of Paternò, later used as a mill store.
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Chiesa di San Domenico
Paternò's church of the Rosary, founded in 1562 beside the Dominican friary, on piazza Indipendenza.
Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola
The Baroque and neoclassical church that names a square in the centre of Paternò, completed in 1779.
Chiesa di San Giacomo
The small rustic church of the archconfraternity of San Giacomo, on the road to the Consolazione in Paternò.
Chiesa di Sant'Antonio abate
The church of Sant'Antonio Abate in central Paternò, born in a Franciscan friary and a pesthouse in 1576.
Chiesa di Santa Barbara
The church of Paternò's patron saint, with a dome almost 40 metres high and a silver statue of 1745.
Chiesa di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria
The eighteenth-century octagonal church at the foot of the historic hill of Paternò.
Complesso di San Francesco alla Collina
The former Franciscan friary on the hill of Paternò, born from a church built by Count Roger in 1086.
Santuario della Madonna della Consolazione
The Marian sanctuary of Paternò, rebuilt in 1954 in red stone and white marble after the war.
Abbazia di Santa Maria la Scala
The ruins of a Norman-era Basilian monastery in Paternò, later Carthusian and Augustinian.
Castles, palaces and villas
4Castello di Poira ★
The ruins of the Baroness's castle on the Calanchi hills of Paternò, scene of a kidnapping by brigands.
Castello Normanno di Paternò ★
The keep built in 1072 by Count Roger, with views over Etna and the Simeto valley.
Palazzo Alessi
Paternò's town hall in the eighteenth-century palace of the Alessi family, with its lava stone façade.
Villa Coniglio
The nineteenth-century villa of the Coniglio barons in Paternò, now a centre for the elderly and local youth.
Parks and gardens
1Giardino Moncada
The large public park of Paternò, created from a citrus grove given by Cavaliere Moncada in 1912.
Museums, theatres and collections
1Museo civico Gaetano Savasta
Paternò's civic museum, with archaeology in the former Bourbon prison and farm tools in the old slaughterhouse.
Squares, fountains and monuments
1Ponte romano di Pietralunga
The lava stone remains of the Roman bridge over the Simeto, in the western countryside of Paternò.
Nature and viewpoints
1Salinelle di Paternò
The small mud volcanoes of Paternò, where salt water and gas linked to Etna rise from the ground.
Tours, tickets and experiences
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