Amazing historic buildings in the centre of town, lovely to wander around. We sadly could not find much help in the interpretation boards and leaflets, which were dense, difficult translations of academic descriptions, so don't depend on these. Just soak up the atmosphere and age.

We almost overlooked this place during our recent 5 day visit to Catania and the surrounding area. Luckily the location was only 100 metres from our hotel and we had a morning left so we walked over. NOTHING could have prepared us for the sight...More

Not the easiest site to find and worth about thirty minutes of your time. Costs 6 euro to visit and interesting.

Interesting site fro 300bc surounded by more recent buldings. Could have been better presented & promoted but once inside it was an interesting place to visit with various explanations of what you were looking at.

Given that the weather didn't really allow us to go up to Etna we strolled around Catania and also ended up visiting this ancient theater, which in all fairness isn't that spectacular... Worth a visit only if you are stuck in Catania and not planning...More

From the outside one would never ever expect such a large archeological site, it went on and on! Upstairs and downstairs and around. Along the walls are stacked higgly piggly blocks of stone and remains of columns, all looks a bit disorganised. Generally I think...More

For such an important archaeological site the entrance is hard to find and the reception and information very poor. For somewhere that has had substantial EU funding the lack of information, foreign language speakers at the ticket office was poor. Once inside the curation is...More