A suggestive corner of Catania is Porta Garibaldi. This was built in 1768 to a design by Stefano Ittar and Francesco Battaglia. The work was used to commemorate the wedding between Ferdinando delle due Sicilie and Maria Carolina of Habsburg, hence the name of Porta Ferdinandea.Porta Garibaldi is known by the people of Catania as u Furtinu in memory of a fort built a few steps away from piazza Palestro, exactly in via Sacchero, by the Viceroy Claudio Lamoraldo prince of Ligne.
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