Piazza stesicoro vincenzo bellinis biography images

In square Stesicoro, with the monument to the musician Vincenzo Bellini, the layer of volcanic ash that has covered the city's streets and pavements The church of San Biagio also known as .

Luca Aless - CC4. Piazza Stesicoro , which owes its name to the Greek poet Stesicoro whose tomb was here in Roman times, is crossed and divided in two by the main street in the center, Via Etnea. The two parts of the square have different architectural styles. To the east stands the monument dedicated to the composer Vincenzo Bellini. Behind the monument to Bellini, at the end of the fifties, all the existing buildings were demolished and the current Corso Sicilia was built, on the sides of which are the main financial buildings of the city.

The "underground" monument is well preserved and today it is visible, looking out from Piazza Stesicoro, under the road surface.

On the other side of the square, under the road surface, about ten meters deep, you can see a part of the Roman amphitheater unearthed in the early twentieth century. In front of the remains of the Amphitheater is the Church of San Biagio also known as the Church of Sant'Agata alla Fornace, from the name of the relic kept inside, and next to it in a higher position than the square is the Palazzo della Borsa, now the seat of the Catania Chamber of Commerce.

To the north, with respect to the Roman amphitheater, is the eighteenth-century Palazzo Tezzano, seat of the court until The Roman Amphitheater of Catania is a grandiose Roman monument, second in size only to the Colosseum, whose external circumference should measure about meters, and is almost completely covered by modern buildings. The grandeur of the monument is in fact perceptible only from the remains of the walls visible in two crossbars of via Manzoni.

It is believed that the amphitheater was completed during the second century AD. It is certain, however, as historians attest, that already at the time of Theodoric - AD the amphitheater was in a state of neglect, and that the people of Catania asked the emperor for permission to use the stones as a material. It was also a source of building material for King Roger, in , the lava stone of the amphitheater was used for the construction of the Cathedral of Sant'Agata and the construction of the ancient walls.

The "underground" monument is well preserved and today it is visible, looking out from Piazza Stesicoro, under the road surface. The Monument to Vincenzo Bellini in Catania was built by the sculptor Giulio Monteverde, commissioned by the municipality of Catania, and inaugurated on 21 September