Catania Province

Mount Etna 'breathing', study shows

Researchers studying Mount Etna in Sicily have discovered that Europe's most active volcano 'breathes', inflating and deflating in cycles.

Feast of Saint Agatha in Catania, Sicily

One of the largest religious festivals in the world takes place the first week of February in the Sicilian city of Catania when it honors its patron saint, Sant’Agata. Some estimate that up to a million people line the streets to honor this martyred young woman with Sicilian roots.

Zenga extends with Catania

Walter Zenga has extended his contract as Catania coach for a year until 2010, the club announced on Thursday.

Feast of Santa Barbara in Paternò, Sicily

Even as winter settles into the Bel Paese, Sicilians in Paternò, in the province of Catania, are celebrating.

Catania celebrates lotto win

The whole of Catania celebrated Thursday night with cavalcades of cars and cascades of sparkling wine after someone in the Sicilian city landed a Superenalotto jackpot of more than 100 million euros, the biggest Italian lotto win ever.

Baggio boosts Zenga

Italy great Roberto Baggio on Wednesday praised former Azzurri teammate Walter Zenga for his work in coaching Serie A dark horse Catania.

Pensioner turns pusher 'to make ends meet'

An Italian pensioner caught selling drugs said he had turned to the trade to make ends meet.

The Feast of the Madonna of the Sick in Misterbianco, Sicily

From 11-15 September, the small town of Misterbianco, Sicily, eight kilometres outside of Catania, will celebrate La Festa della Madonna degli Ammalati. The festival honours the Madonna for her miraculous salvation of the sanctuary that bears her name when Mt. Etna erupted and covered the rest of the town in lava in 1669.

Row over communist custody boy

Members of Italy's Communist parties were up in arms on Wednesday after a Catania court took a 16-year-old boy away from his mother, allegedly because he was a youth member of the Communist Refoundation Party (PDR).