| Riposto | ||
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| State | Italy | |
|---|---|---|
| Region | Sicily | |
| Territory | Catanese | |
| Altitude | 7 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 13.25 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 14.582 (2019) | |
| Name inhabitants | reposted | |
| Prefix tel | 39 095 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 95018 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | Saint Peter | |
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Riposto is a city of Sicily.
To know
It is the hometown of Franco Battiato.
How to orient yourself
37 ° 43′15 ″ N 15 ° 12′23 ″ E
RipostoFractions
- Altarello
- Arches
- Carob
- Quartirello
- Archirafi Tower - is the most historically linked fraction to Riposto (the village has been part of this municipality since 1842, that is, since the secession from Giarre). It is named after one of the County's seven defensive towers Mascali.
How to get
By plane
- Catania-Fontanarossa Airport - with domestic flights to all Italian cities, and flights to the main European destinations and various international locations.
- 1 Port of Etna (Marina Di Riposto), ☎ 39 095932089. Tourist port for private boats.
On the train
Giarre-Riposto station
- 2 Riposto station, Cardinal Dusmet Square, 7, ☎ 39 095932201. The station is the terminus of the railway connection Randazzo-Replace of the Circumetnea railway.
- 3 Giarre-Riposto station, Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini, 6. it is one of the main stations of the railway line Messina-Syracuse.
How to get around
What see
Basilica of Saint Peter
- 1 Basilica of Saint Peter, St. Peter's Square, ☎ 39 095931187. In neoclassical style, the basilica takes up the facade of the basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, a Rome. The plant has a Latin cross and three naves. Inside we find a late 19th century Jaquot pipe organ from Remberville, France, an artistic pulpit by the architect Carlo Sada and several paintings by Sicilian painters.
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Church of the Madonna della Lettera
- 2 Church of the Madonna della Lettera, Via Cristoforo Colombo, 99. The Church was the first in Riposto; however the present structure is only the fourth reconstruction. The first was erected in the twelfth century, the second in the Renaissance period, the third in the eighteenth century and the last in 1868. Inside there is a painting depicting the Madonna della Letter which replaces an ancient Byzantine icon now lost. In the church there are also an eighteenth-century organ and a crypt with an ossuary, a well of sea water and cologne used for the treatment of the corpses, where even today, during high and low tide, the water rises and lowers.
- 3 Town Hall, St. Peter's Square, ☎ 39 095930289.
- 4 Villa Pantano. Which was the seat of the English camp during the Allied occupation. It houses a bronze bust dedicated to the politician, the work of the sculptor Ettore Ximenes.
- 5 Iron dome, Edoardo Pantano seafront. German-built tobruk-type bunker dating back to World War II.
- 6 Wine Museum (Allegra Palace), Via Gaetano de Maio, 1, ☎ 39 095962226.
- 7 Kentie Park Museum, Via Mario Carbonaro, ☎ 39 0959702092.
Events and parties
What to do
Within the municipality, in a stretch of the Edoardo Pantano seafront, there is a separate cycle path that connects the small hamlet of Torre Archirafi with the tourist port.
