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Overview:
Catania, Italy - is Sicily's
second-largest city and despite the ever-looming presence of
Etna – even the city's main street is named after the volcano
– and the ubiquitous black-grey volcanic stone in pavements
and buildings, there's more openness and space than in the
island's capital. A major transport hub, and predominantly a
businesslike, commercial centre, it's nevertheless one of the
island's most historic and intriguing cities.
It has a commercial seaport in the city, an international
airport to the south, a central train station on the main lines
Messina-Siracuse, Catania-Gela and Catania-Palermo, as well as
the privately-owned small-gauge Circumetnea railway which runs
for 110km from Catania round the base of Mount Etna, attaining
the height of 976m above sea level before descending to rejoin
the coast at Giarre-Riposto to the North. In the late
1990s/early 2000s the first line of an underground railway was
built under the city, extending the Circumetnea from its stop on
the north side of town to the Central Railway Station on the
southeast.
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