It was worth walking up the ills to see this.Difficult to photograph but we took this rout on our way to the greek theatre.
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Chiesa di San Nicolo All'Arena
Piazza Cavour, Catania, Sicily, Italy
(Borgo-Sanzio)
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The Church is enormous and was built in white stone. Inside there are three main parts and you can go up to see the dome or the cloister. In the different parts of the structure there baroque elements such as masks or flowers.
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The building is rather poor, but it's really worth waiting for the solar midday (it was 1pm) to see the sun beam reaching the calendar engraved in the pavement
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Combine with a free guided tour around the adjacent former Benedictine monastery, now part of Catania University and an undiscovered gem!
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I think this church is closed to the public. I did not enter La Chiesa di San Nicolo L' Arena, but saw the inside of the building from one of the shuttered balconies, during the Monastero dei Benedetinni guided tour.
The church facade is unfinished but I actually did not notice the incomplete columns the first time I walked by...
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