Giardino Pacini

Giardino Pacini

The Giardino Pacini (English translation: "Pacini Garden"), also known as Villa Pacini or the Villa Varagghi, is a small circular urban park located just south of the Porta Uzeda, on the seaward side of the elevated railway viaduct, in Catania, region of Sicily, Italy. It is partially encircled by Via Lavandaie and Via Jonica.[1]

Description

The park, with a small central fountain, originally the Villa della Marina, was dedicated in 1978[2] to the memory of the opera composer Giovanni Pacini, and has a marble bust of the composer by Giovanni Dupré, as well as two headless statues of Bourbon kings of Naples. The River Amenano, now subterranean, once emptied into the sea at this point and the site was used by laundresses washing clothes (lavandaie). The garden was once part of a seaside park, but is now distant from the water.[3][4]

See also

• Giardino Bellini

References

1. Sicily, the New Winter Resort An Encyclopaedia of Sicily, by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen; 1907, p. 330
2. Catania.italiani.it: Storia e tradizione della Villa Pacini
3. Maria Teresa Di Blasi and Concetta Greco Lanza, 2007: Il Cicerone. Storia, itinerari, leggende di Catania (2nd ed.). Catania: Edizioni Greco. ISBN 9788875120603
4. Università degli Studi di Catania - Dipartimento di Botanico: Villa Pacini - Il Giardino (archived at Web.archive)

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