Piazza dell'Università, Catania

Piazza dell'Università is a city square in the historic center of the city of Catania, in Sicily, Italy.

An 1864 guidebook calls this the Piazza degli Studi, and recalls the piazza once previously hosted a statue of the Bourbon King Francis I of the Two Sicilies by Antonio Cali.

[1] In the piazza are four lamp-posts, completed in 1957, in a program designed by Vincenzo Corsaro; each depicts a separate myth or legend linked to Catania sculpted in bronze by Mimì Maria Lazzaro and Domenico Tudisco.

The lamp-posts suggest a candelabra, thus associated with a tradition of the candeloro displayed during the Festival di Sant'Agata.

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