Fontana dei Malavoglia

Needs repairing

This statue is on front of a large hotel and represents some scene from a famous opera. Regrettably it as been left to rot and neads repairing.

An icon of Sicilian culture

The fountain lies in Piazza Verga, named after the writer of the novel Malavoglia, in front of the tribunal. The architecture of the entire square still hints to a mix of early fascist architecture mi...

One of the monuments of the Catalan tradition.

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This source of beauty is located on the Piazza Giovanni Verga, in Catania and honors the Sicilian writer.

I was surprised when I learned that it was a fountain, tk he didn't work.

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Unfortunately, when I was, the fountain didn't work, but also as a sculpture it looks self-sufficient. Around the shadow of trees a lot of shops.

Beautiful!

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Beautiful fountain on a large square in the center of Catania. As I understood, this is a fragment of some fairy tale made in the form of a fountain. Beautiful and originally made directions of water streams, some small ...