- Itineraires
for visiting Lentini
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- The Churches
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Main church
- Dedicated
to St.Alfio, architect Vella da Malta's work built in the second half of the
18th century with a nave and two aisles on columns, it keeps among the other
works a valuable painting by Bassano, a Christian hypogeum (3rd century) and
a Byzantine painting on wood of the Madonna Odigitria (12th century).
The facade with three orders dates to the sixteenth century.
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The church of St. Luca
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is a 18th century church where it is possible to admire a Crucifixion
attribuited to Tintoretto, a St.Francis in prayer from Bassano's school and
the Virgin's Birth by Gramignani (1760).
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The church of the SS.Trinita’ and of St. Marziano
- National
Monument, it was built on the ruins of the sixteenth century Palazzo La
Palumba.
It keeps inside the beautiful floor in Caltagirone baked clay (18th century),
the vault's frescoes by Sebastiano Lo Monaco, a polyptych of the Antonello
da Messina's school and the lapis-lazuli tabernacle of the high altar.
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The church of St. Francesco di Paola
- It
has a beautiful 18th century architechture and it keeps an old bellows organ
and works from churches destroyed by the 1693 earthquake.
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The church of the Immacolata
- It
dates back to the 18th century and it is possible to admire inside a lion
with a flowing mane of Romanic age, Queen Maria's sepulchral stone (1402)
and a Christ at the Column.
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The Cave of Crocifisso
- Situated
in the San Mauro valley, it is a very suggestive cave with frescoes
imitating the Byzantine style (12th-17th century) and the ruins of the 16th
century ex Church of S.Pietro and of a Greek house dug in the rock.
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- The
ruins of Lentini Castellaccio
- Swabian
castle dating back to the 12th century, built by Frederick II.
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- Archeological
Museum
- Very
interesting is the Archeological Museum. It preserve the rests of the
ancient leontinoi.
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- The
sea and the beach
- Very
beautiful is the sea. Important and very nice is the beach “Agnone
Bagni”. It is Lying 10 Km from the centre of lentini.
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- The lake
“Biviere”
- Lying
3 Km from the homonymous centre, it was the widest lake basin in the island,
anciently nuch smaller, before the Trigona river flowed into it.
In Swabian times it was already dammed.
In the last few years it is used as an irrigation reservoir for the citrus
groves growing.
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is a large artificial basin that makes it possible to admire a great variety
of birds: Stork, Stilt, Coot, Royal Mallard, Cormorant, Flamingo, Royal
Eagle, Gull.
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- how Lentini can be reached
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- You
can reach Lentini by car from CATANIA and SYRACUSE from which Lentini is
about 30 Km away, by train it can be reached with the CATANIA-SYRACUSE line
or by bus from all the heighbouring villages. If you are very far you can
reach before Catania’s Airport (Fontanarossa).
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