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The four Canti are the real heart of the city and are defined from the two main streets: Via Maqueda and Corso Vittorio Emanuele in the seventeenth century that divided the city into four districts characterized by four baroque buildings decorated with statues and fountains, representing the seasons.
The fountain of shame
Matches from the beautiful Piazza Pretoria, a beautiful square surrounded by churches and palaces in the center with its beautiful fountain of 1555, moved here from Florence in 1575.
The history of the fountain is very curious, it seems that the nudity of the male statues that adorn the past offendesse the nuns of the convent so close that they decided to emasculate the statues. But embarrassed by the sex of stone destroyed at the end only the noses. From this episode onwards the name derives Fountain of Shame.
City Hall
Opposite the fountain is the Town Hall and in the background you can admire the great monastery of Santa Catarina, dating back to the sixteenth century, which is one of the most beautiful baroque buildings of the city and overlooks Piazza Bellini.
Churches
Then do not miss the Martorana, a twelfth century church with a bell tower which houses within it the wonderful Byzantine mosaics on the dome, the oldest and most beautiful of the island.
Alongside you will find San Cataldo was built in Arabic style, and also dating from the twelfth century and characterized by the three domes that cover the rosy nave with the typical form of a cap down. The church is the headquarters of the Order of the Knights of Jerusalem, but above all it is one of the most significant Islamic architecture in Sicily.
If, via Maqueda take away Ponticello arrive in another very important church, the Church of Jesus: the first based on the island by the Jesuits at the end of the sixteenth century.
The Palace of the Province
Via Maqueda Finally do not forget the Palace of the province, the seat of the Provincial Council, a palace of the eighteenth century restored in 1931 that has kept the ceiling in the Sicilian Baroque style, the frescoes, mirrors, paintings, chandeliers of Murano glass and furniture.
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