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Catania Metro
The Catania Metro ( it, Metropolitana di Catania) is a rapid transit system serving the coastal city of Catania, Sicily, in Southern Italy. It is the southernmost metro system in Europe, the only one in Sicily, and one of the seven Italian metro systems. The Catania Metro has been in operation since 27 June 1999. History and construction The section of the line between the stations of Borgo and Porto originally belonged to the Ferrovia Circumetnea narrow-gauge regional railway which opened to traffic in 1895. For the operation of the metro, this portion of the rail line was converted to standard gauge and mostly moved underground into a double-track cut-and-cover tunnel, except for the part of the route adjacent to the coast which runs on the surface for and which is single-tracked. Thus, the narrow-gauge Circumetnea railway's original terminus at Catania Porto had to be moved to Borgo due to the development of the Catania Metro. The Metropolitana and the Circumetnea railwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catania
Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by the presence of important road and rail transport infrastructures as well as by the main airport in Sicily, fifth in Italy. It is located on Sicily's east coast, at the base of the active volcano, Mount Etna, and it faces the Ionian Sea. It is the capital of the 58-municipality region known as the Metropolitan City of Catania, which is the seventh-largest metropolitan city in Italy. The population of the city proper is 311,584, while the population of the Metropolitan City of Catania is 1,107,702. Catania was founded in the 8th century BC by Chalcidian Greeks. The city has weathered multiple geologic catastrophes: it was almost completely destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake in 1169. A major eruption and lava flow from nearby Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontana (metropolitana Di Catania)
Fontana may refer to: Places Italy *Fontana Liri, comune in the Province of Frosinone *Fontanafredda, comune in the Province of Pordenone *Fontanarosa, comune in the Province of Avellino *Francavilla Fontana, comune in the Province of Brindisi *Serrara Fontana, comune in the Province of Napoli Switzerland * Fontana GR, a settlement in Tarasp in the Canton of Graubünden * Fontana (Airolo), a settlement in Airolo, in the Canton of Ticino United States * Fontana, California * Fontana, Kansas * Fontana, Texas * Fontana Village, North Carolina *Fontana-on-Geneva Lake, Wisconsin *Fontana Dam in the U.S. state of North Carolina Elsewhere * Fontana, Chaco, a settlement in San Fernando Department, Chaco Province, Argentina *Fontana, Gozo, on Gozo Island, Republic of Malta *Fontana (Belgrade), a neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia *Fontana (lunar crater), an impact crater on the Moon *Fontana (Martian crater), an impact craters on Mars *Fontana metro station, a rapid transit station in Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto (metropolitana Di Catania)
Porto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2021) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas March 2010 making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the |
Galatea (metropolitana Di Catania)
Galatea is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white". Galatea, Galathea or Gallathea may refer to: In mythology * Galatea, three different mythological figures from Greek mythology In the arts * ''Aci, Galatea e Polifemo'', cantata by Handel * ''Galatea'' (Raphael), or ''The Triumph of Galatea'', a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-nymph * ''Gallathea'', a late sixteenth-century play by John Lyly * ''Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed'', an 1883 musical comedy by Henry Pottinger Stephens, W. Webster and Meyer Lutz * ''Galatea'', a 2009 play by Lawrence Aronovitch * ''La Galatea'', a sixteenth-century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes * ''Galatea'' (novel), a 1953 novel by James M. Cain * ''Galatea'', a 1976 novel by Philip Pullman * ', a 1977 ballet film with Ekaterina Maximova and Māris Liepa * '' Galatea 2.2'', a 1995 novel by Richard Powers * ''Galatea'' (video game), released in 2000 * Galatea, a main figure in the ''Pygmalion and the Image'' series of four pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italia (metropolitana Di Catania)
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuffrida (metropolitana Di Catania)
Giuffrida is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alfio Giuffrida (born 1953), Italian sculptor * Filippo Giuffrida Répaci (born 1964) Italian journalist, director of the magazine ''La Lettre b'' * Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida (1859–1920), Italian socialist politician and journalist * Louis O. Giuffrida (1920–2012), first director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from 1981 to 1985 *Odette Giuffrida Odette Giuffrida (born 12 October 1994 in Rome) is an Italian judoka. She competed at the 2023 World Judo Championships, where she placed third in the women's 52 kg. Career She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the ... (born 1994), Italian judoka See also * Giuffrida metro station, located in Catania in Sicily, southern Italy {{surname, Giuffrida Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borgo (metropolitana Di Catania)
Borgo may refer to the following places: Finland * Borgå France * Borgo, Haute-Corse Italy * Borgo (rione of Rome), a ''rione'' in the City of Rome. *Borgo a Mozzano, in the province of Lucca *Borgo d'Ale, in the province of Vercelli *Borgo di Terzo, in the province of Bergamo * Borgo Pace, in the province of Pesaro e Urbino *Borgo Priolo, in the province of Pavia * Borgo San Dalmazzo, in the province of Cuneo *Borgo San Giacomo, in the province of Brescia *Borgo San Giovanni, in the province of Lodi *Borgo San Lorenzo, in the province of Florence *Borgo San Martino, in the province of Alessandria *Borgo San Siro, in the province of Pavia *Borgo Santa Lucia an historic ''rione'' in the City of Naples *Borgo Ticino, in the province of Novara *Borgo Tossignano, in the province of Bologna *Borgo Val di Taro, in the province of Parma *Borgo Valsugana, in the province of Trento *Borgo Velino, in the province of Rieti *Borgo Vercelli, in the province of Vercelli *Borgosesia, in the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milo (metropolitana Di Catania)
Milo may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Milo'' (magazine), a strength sports magazine *'' Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze'', a 2011 children's novel by Alan Silberberg * ''Milo'' (video game), a first-person adventure-puzzle computer game Computing and technology * MILO (boot loader), a firmware replacement used for booting Linux on older Alpha AXP hardware *Milo, a computer algebra system by Paracomp *Eclipse Milo, an open source implementation of the communication protocol OPC Unified Architecture *Project Milo, a tech demo for Microsoft's Kinect Food and drink *Milo (chocolate bar), an Australian chocolate bar made with Milo powder *Milo (drink), a brand name of a chocolate malt drink by Nestlé Plants *Milo, a common name of ''Thespesia populnea'' and its wood *Milo, a common name for some varieties of commercial sorghum People and fictional characters *Milo (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Milo Places Italy * Milo, Catania, a ''co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cibali (metropolitana Di Catania)
Cibali may refer to: * , a neighbourhood of Catania, Italy ** Stadio Cibali, a sports stadium * Cibali, İspir, a place in Erzurum Province, Turkey * , a neighbourhood of Fatih Fatih () is a district of and a municipality (''belediye'') in Istanbul, Turkey, and home to almost all of the provincial authorities (including the governor's office, police headquarters, metropolitan municipality and tax office) but not the co ..., Istanbul, Turkey See also * Chibali (other), entities in Kashmir * Cibalia, a Croatian football club {{Geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
