Patron saint festival In 39 days
Saint Catherine, patron of the town at the foot of Etna
📅 Every year, on 25 November
San Pietro Clarenza celebrates Saint Catherine on 25 November, in the church dedicated to her.
Positioned just seven kilometres northwest of Catania, San Pietro Clarenza—called San Petru Clarenza in the local language—acts as a geographic bridge between the metropolitan center and surrounding towns like Misterbianco and Mascalucia.
Home to around 7,100 residents, the municipality sits roughly 160 kilometres southeast of Palermo. It shares its immediate borders with Camporotondo Etneo and Belpasso, placing it firmly within the dense urban network of the Catanese hinterland.
The San Pietro Clarenza guide
What to eat here 2
Arancino · Pasta alla Norma
Where to stay
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Events & festivals 1
Next up: Saint Catherine, patron of the town at the foot of Etna, Wednesday 25 November
Getting there
Nearest airport: Catania Fontanarossa, 12 km away
🎉 Festivals and feasts in San Pietro Clarenza 1
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🍝 The flavours of San Pietro Clarenza
Arancino fried rice cone stuffed with ragù, pointed like Etna
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo inside a golden cone-shaped crust: in Catania it is masculine and pointed, and the quarrel with Palermo over the name is serious.
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Near San Pietro Clarenza
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside San Pietro Clarenza, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Cento · 8.9 km One of Cento's oldest churches, thirteenth-century, with a five-bay portico: three Guercino altarpieces once hung here. Basilica di San Biagio 📍 Cento · 9.1 km Cento's Baroque cathedral church, reopened in 2018 after the earthquake: an elliptical dome and two Guercino paintings. Rocca di Cento 📍 Cento · 9.4 km The fortress the Bolognese built in Cento from 1378: a keep, three corner towers and the cells used until 1969. Centro di documentazione del mondo agricolo ferrarese 📍 Ferrara · 16 km Museum of Ferrara's farming world at San Bartolomeo in Bosco, opened 1981, over ten thousand objects. Este Castle 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Built in 1385 around four imposing towers, this moated medieval fortress is the Renaissance centerpiece of Ferrara. cattedrale di San Giorgio 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Romanesque below, Gothic above: Nicholaus's façade, the merchants' loggias and the Months in the museum.