As one of two openly gay members currently serving on the Council, Catania has played a major role in the city's recognition of same-sex unions and legalization of same-sex marriage.

Notable scholars currently working on the project include Barbara Tsakirgis of Vanderbilt University on the houses of Serra Orlando, Jenifer Neils of Case Western Reserve University on figured pottery, Barbara Barletta of the University of Florida on architectural moldings, Rosa Maria Albanese Procelli and Enrico Procelli, both of the University of Catania on the Bronze Age material, John Kenfield of Rutgers University on architectural terracottas, and Robert Leighton of the University of Edinburgh on the protohistoric settlement on Cittadella.

Scheduled flights are currently offered to Bari, Brindisi, Catania, Inverness, Cardiff, Bristol, Lamezia Terme, Olbia, Heringsdorf and Rostock.

Maximiliano Gastón López ( born 3 April 1984 ) is an Argentine professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Serie A club Sampdoria, on loan from Catania.

It is estimated that about 80 % of the businesses in the Sicilian cities of Catania and Palermo regularly pay protection money.

There is also a ferry terminal at the Grand Harbour that connects Malta to Pozzallo and Catania in Sicily.

It is located in the Province of Catania.

To the east, there is the Alcantara in the province of Messina, which exits at Giardini Naxos ; and the Simeto which exits into the Ionian Sea south of Catania.

* May 1 – The first Fascio dei lavoratori ( Workers League ) is founded by Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida in Catania, ( Sicily ).

* October 19 – The University of Catania is founded in Italy.

* May 15 – The Cathedral of Saint Agatha in Catania is consecrated by the Breton Abbot Ansger of Saint Euphemia.

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The Catania | Catanese dish Pasta alla Norma is among Sicily's most historic and iconic

It is a semi-frozen dessert of sugar, water, and flavorings originally from the island, and is commonly associated from Catania, even though there is no evident proof that it hails from the particular Sicilian city.

The current birth rate of Catania is 7. 77 births per 1, 000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9. 45 births.

Bronte is a town and comune of Sicily ( in the province of Catania, Italy ), near Mount Etna.

Mount Etna, is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania.

Taormina ( Sicilian: Taurmina, Tauromenion, Latin: Tauromenium ') is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania.

Such a tale is told of Saint Agatha ; Jacobus de Voragine has pagans in Catania repairing to the relics of St. Agatha to supernaturally repel an eruption of Mount Etna:

non credea mirarti " of La sonnambula is inscribed on Bellini's tomb in the Cathedral of Catania, Sicily.

Saint Apollonia is one of the two patron saints of Catania.

She is the patron saint of Catania, Molise, Malta, San Marino and Zamarramala, a municipality of the Province of Segovia in Spain.

Agatha is buried at the Badia di Sant ' Agata, Catania.

She is the patron saint of Catania, Sorihuela del Guadalimar ( Spain ), Molise, San Marino and Malta.

Granita with coffee is very common in the city of Messina, while granita with almonds is popular in the city of Catania.

David A. Catania ( born January 16, 1968 ) is an American politician and lawyer from Washington, D. C.

Raffaele Lombardo ( born on 29 October 1950 in Catania ) is an Italian politician, President of Sicily and former Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Movement for Autonomies and has sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Sebastiano ( Nello ) Musumeci ( born on 21 January 1955 in Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily ) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Islands, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

Giusto Catania ( born on 10 June 1971 in Palermo ) is an Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista ( PRC ), part of the European Left and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

In 1999, the Italian music publisher Casa Ricordi, in collaboration with the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, embarked on a project to publish critical editions of the complete works of Bellini.

State Rep. Susan Catania insisted on attaching an amendment to allow women guarantees in the use of credit cards ; her effort was assisted by Machine operatives Jim Taylor and Larry Bullock.

In Catania, on the east coast, initially settled by Greek colonists, fish, olives, broad beans, pistachio and fresh vegetables are preferred instead.

Catania cast doubt on whether Pavlov ever actually used a bell in his famous experiments.

On October 27, 1962 on a flight from Catania ( Sicily ) to the Milan Linate Airport, Mattei's jetplane, a Morane-Saulnier MS. 760 Paris, crashed in the surroundings of the small village of Bascapè in Lombardy, in the course of a storm.

For the second consecutive season Udinese qualified for the Champions League, clinching third place on the final day of the season with a 2-0 away win against Catania.

The International Conference on " Ettore Majorana's legacy and the Physics of the XXI century " EMC2006 was held in commemoration of the centennial of Majorana's birth in Catania October 5 – 6, 2006.

The Catania plant in Sicily employs 5, 000 staff and hosts several R & D centers and divisions, focusing on flash memory technologies as well as two fabs.

For this reason the relics of Saint Agatha were paraded in front of lava advancing on Catania in 253 CE, and miraculously the lava clove in two ( down two valleys ) and spared the town.

It would also see the rapid capture of the ports of Catania, Palermo, Syracuse, Licata and Augusta ( being all the main ports on the island, except for Messina ), thus facilitating a rapid Allied build-up as well as denying their use to the Axis.

Alexander's plan was to firstly establish his forces on a line between Licata in the west and Catania in the east before embarking on operations to reduce the rest of the island.

Eighth Army's tasks were therefore to capture the Pachino airfield on Cape Passero and the port of Syracuse before moving northwards to take the ports of Augusta and Catania.

Their objectives also included the landing fields around Gerbini, on the Catania plain.

The immediate priority was first to slow and then halt the Allied advance, to which end a defence line was to be formed running from San Stefano on the north coast, through Nicosia, Agira, Cantenanuova and thence to the eastern coast south of Catania.

On 12 July 1st Parachute Brigade had been dropped to capture the Primasole Bridge over the river Simeto on the southern edge of the Catania plain and hold it open until 5th Infantry Division north to join them.

Meanwhile, on 3 August XIII Corps, taking advantage of the fluidity caused by the threat to Adrano, resumed their advance on Catania, and by 5 August the town was in their hands.

Because the bridge was the only crossing on the river, and would give the Eighth Army access to the Catania plain, its capture was expected to speed the advance and lead to the eventual defeat of the Axis forces in Sicily.

The 1st Fallschirmjäger Machine Gun Battalion commanded by Major Werner Schmidt had landed at Catania during an Allied air raid early on 13 July.

Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi ( Born at Castiglione di Sicilia-Provincia di Catania, Sicily on 14 January 1914 – Died at his native town on 3 July 2003 ) of the Roman Catholic Church was a senior papal diplomat and former Personal Secretary to Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini ( later Pope Paul VI ).

After Maria's death Martin I the Younger married at Catania on May 21, 1402 by proxy and on December 26, 1402 in person Blanche of Navarre, who was heiress of the Evreux family and the future queen of Navarre, by whom he had an only son Martin in 1403, who died in Valencia in 1407.