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The Giardino Pacini (English translation: "Pacini Garden"), also known as Villa Pacini or the Villa Varagghi, is a small circular urban park located just south of the Porta Uzeda, on the seaward side of the elevated railway viaduct, in
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The Giardino Pacini (English translation: "Pacini Garden"), also known as Villa Pacini or the Villa Varagghi, is a small circular urban park located just south of the Porta Uzeda, on the seaward side of the elevated railway viaduct, in 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 ...
, region of Sicily, Italy. It is partially encircled by Via Lavandaie and Via Jonica.
Description
The park, with a small central fountain, originally the Villa della Marina, was dedicated in 1978 to the memory of the opera composerGiovanni Pacini
Giovanni Pacini (11 February 17966 December 1867) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas. The fami ...
, and has a marble bust of the composer by Giovanni Dupré
Giovanni Dupré (1 March 1817 – 10 January 1882) was an Italian sculptor, of distant French stock long settled in Tuscany, who developed a reputation second only to that of his contemporary Lorenzo Bartolini.
Biography
Born in Siena, Dupré ...
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kings of Naples
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House of Anjou
In 1382, the Kin ...
. The River Amenano, now subterranean, once emptied into the sea at this point and the site was used by laundresses washing clothes (). The garden was once part of a seaside park, but is now distant from the water./ref>
See also
* Giardino BelliniReferences
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