Conservatorio Delle Verginelle Di Sant'Agata
The Conservatorio delle Verginelle di Sant'Agata (Conservatory of the Young Virgins of St Agatha) is a former orphanage-hostel and church located on via Teatro Greco #82, with the northern facade paralleling Piazza Dante, Catania, Piazza Dante and the Monastery of San Nicolo l'Arena in the center of the city of Catania, region of Sicily, Italy. Presently it houses the facilities of the Faculty of the Scienza della Formazione of the University of Catania, educating future science teachers. History A conservatory of this name was documented by 1586, with the aims of providing for young and poor abandoned girls, patronized by the aristocrat Giovanni La Rocca. The institution not only housed the girls, who were entering marriagable age, but also taught them a craft and prepared them for marriage with a small dowry. After the 1693 Sicily Earthquake flattened the prior structure, which was located near the present church of San Biagio, Catania, San Biagio in Piazza Stesicoro, the present ...
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Catania – Via Verginelle - Piazza Dante Alighieri - Ex Convento Delle Verginelle - Panoramio
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 Sicily earthquake, 1169. A major eruption and lava flow ...
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