San Martino dei Bianchi, Catania

San Martino dei Bianchi is a Roman Catholic church located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele #191 (with an entrance at Via San martino 24) in the center of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy.

The present church, with its undulating late-Baroque facade, was built in the 18th century, commissioned by the Arch-confraternity of the Bianchi, based on designs by the architect Stefano Ittar (1724-1790).

The previous church of the lay confraternity had been destroyed in the 1693 earthquake.

The confraternity provided comfort and burial assistance to those condemned to death.

[1] Further down along Via San Martino, at number 10 on the second floor, a plaque commemorates the inn where Goethe stayed during his Italian Journey through Catania in 1787.