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- Caltagirone is a town in Sicily / Italy, 75km west of Catania and one of the late Baroque cities of the Val di Noto, famous for its Baroque buildings, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.. <9> The approximately 40,000 inhabitants live mainly on agriculture and industry.. <9> <9> <9> Historical <9> <9> * first settlement in the 2nd millennium BC. There are remains of necropolises and a Sicilian settlement.. <9> * Founding of today´s urban area around 800 by the Arabs who built the fortress Calatagerun which gave the town its name <9> * 1030 conquest by the Ligurans <9> during the conquest by the Normans in the 11th century.. remains the city Arabic <9> * 1207 takeover of the rule by Frederick II <9> * in the 15th century.. begins the pottery, which was developed in Caltagirone so far that the city receives the epithet ceramic capital of Sicily.. Of the approximately 20,000 people living here at the time, 1,000 are working in the pottery industry. 993 * 1693 Destruction of the city due to an earthquake in the Val di Noto and reconstruction on the spot <9> * 1918 Founding of the State Technical School for Ceramics <9 > <9> Attractions <9> <9> * Town Hall, 19th century.. , Piazza del Municipio <9> * Teatrino from 1792, today Ceramics Museum, Piazza Guglielmo Marconi 2 <9> * City Museum in the former Bourbon prison <9> * Galleria Sturzo, Piazza del Municipio <9> * San Giulano Cathedral, Piazza Umberto <9> * large outside staircase by the Church of Santa Maria del Monte from 1606. Via Ex Matrice 99. Each of the 142 steps is covered with ceramics and tells the history of ceramic making <9> * Puppet Museum of the Sicilian Puppet Theater <9> * English-style urban park with pond and Moorish bandstand, Via Roma 1 <9>
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Motorhome place
95041 Caltagirone Italywithout charge
open 1.Januar until 31.Dezember
Motorhome place Wohnmoil-Parkplatz Caltagirone
95041 Caltagirone Italywithout charge
open 1.Januar until 31.Dezember
Motorhome place Area di Caltagirone
95041 Caltagirone Sicily Italywithout charge
open 1.Januar until 31.Dezember
Selected parking spaces
| general parking lot italien 95041 Caltagirone Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
| general parking lot italien 95041 Caltagirone Via Ernesto Basile
| Parkenprivat
italien 95041 Caltagirone Strada statale Siracusana
| Parkenwomo
italien 95041 Caltagirone Via Madonna della Via
| Parkenwomo
italien 95041 Caltagirone Via Giambattista Nicastro
| Parkenwomo
italien 95041 Caltagirone Via Tenente Giuseppe Cataldo
| Parkenwomo
italien 95041 Caltagirone SP194
Selected sights
| marketplaceMarktplatz von Caltagirone
| City MuseumMuseo Regionale della Ceramica
italien 95041 Caltagirone Via Roma
| nature parkGiardino Pubblico
italien 95041 Caltagirone Via Roma
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