Simply Catania 2020 - Habitat Boutique Hotel

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Catania is the Baroque queen of the Ionian Sea. It has an eighteen-century architectural layout, but its origins date back to the ancient Greek colony of the Chalcis people of Naxos, who settled on the slopes of Etna in 729 BC. Under Frederick II, Catania gained its first municipal coat of arms depicting the legendary elephant, which is still a symbol of the city today. The entertainment on offer is huge; there are theatres, night clubs, wine bars and many other places in modern, Arab, Japanese, Irish and Brazilian style. There are also many restaurants serving traditional local fare, rich in simple ingredients that are enhanced by imagination, perfumes and colours. Typical local coastal fish are the basis of many traditional recipes which are accompanied with wines from Mount Etna, both red and white. The most famous dish of the Catania tradition is pasta alla Norma, macaroni seasoned with fresh tomato sauce, crunchy fried aubergines, green basil and grated salted ricotta. Try the sardines a beccafico or with the onion, the fried meatballs (u muccu), the spaghetti with squid ink, the eggplant caponata, the eggplant parmigiana. The typical Catanese breakfast is granita accompanied by the typical Sicilian brioche prepared with yeast-based dough and topped with a ball (called tuppu). The typical desserts are: the ricotta cannolo, composed of a crunchy wafer filled with ricotta cream and decorated with chocolate flakes and pistachio chips, stuffed at the time of tasting, the ricotta-based cassata and the Frutta Martorana based on almond flour and sugar. T h i s i s S i c i l y a t i t s m o s t y o u t h f u l , a c i t y p a c ke d w i t h c o o l a n d g r i t t y b a r s , a b u n d a n t e n e r g y a n d a n e a r t h y s p i r i t i n s h a r p c o n t r a s t t o P a l e r m o ’ s a r i s t o c r a t i c a i r s .

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