Unpublished video of the city of Catania in 1907

History of Catania Catania is a city of many facets, able to give the visitor strong emotions for some glimpses of the urban landscape. The growth of the city of Catania is linked, in good or bad, to the relationship with the Etna: enjoying fertility, undergoing the castles, bending the lava stone to material to build the houses. Today, Catania is a large urban agglomeration consisting of a beautiful old town (its baroque was incorporated into the Heritage of Humanity), rebuilt after the terrible earthquake of 1693. Catania was born more than two millennia before: the historical settlement dates back to the oldest Greek colonization in Sicily, when Naxos chalcidos founded, around 729 BC, the first Katane plant. In 476 BC was refounded by Gerone I, a tyrant of Syracuse, who deported the inhabitants to Leontinoi (present Lentini), populating it with the Dori settlers and calling it Aitna. Assigned for three centuries to the Greeks, in 461 the Catanians regained the city, drove out the settlers and restored the