PROVINCE OF CATANIA


'Catania' (Italian: '''Provincia di Catania''') is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Catania.
It has an area of 3,552 km², and a total population of 1,073,881 (2005). There are 58 comunes (Italian: ''comuni'') in the province[1], see Comunes of the Province of Catania. The main comunes by population are:
ComunePopulation
Catania305,717
Acireale52,394
Paternò49,006
Misterbianco46,251
Caltagirone39,299
Adrano35,779
Gravina di Catania28,018
Aci Catena27,992
Giarre26,821
Mascalucia26,284
Biancavilla23,308
Belpasso22,032
Tremestieri Etneo21,362
San Giovanni la Punta20,526
Bronte, Sicily19,147
Aci Castello18,084
Scordia17,168
Aci Sant'Antonio16,796
Palagonia16,393


Contents
Territory
Major Roads
Changes to the Province
External links
Territory

The province faces the Ionian Sea to the east, the Province of Messina to the north, the Province of Enna and the Province of Caltanissetta to the west, the Province of Siracusa and the Province of Ragusa to the south.
Major Roads

There are many major roads that cross the territory of the province. The S.S 114 (Messina-Catania-Siracusa) links many of the coastal towns from Messina to Siracusa, the S.S 121 (Catania-Caltanissetta-Palermo), which links the east coast to Palermo through the major towns of Misterbianco, Paternò and Adrano. There are also the A18 (Messina-Catania) and A19 (Catania-Palermo) highways that pass through the province.
The S.S 114 and S.S 192 (Catania-Enna) start from the Catania ring road.

Changes to the Province


There has been talk for many years of splitting the Province of Catania into three separate provinces with the southern part becoming the Province of Caltagirone, the north east of Etna becoming the Province of Acireale-Giarre-Taormina. The new province would include all of the municipalities south of the Simeto River as well as some of the municipalities of Ragusa and Caltanisetta. The proposal to create this tenth province has been put to referendum in the 1980s and was defeated and in the 1990s the proposal was reformulated and put towards the Assemblea Regionale Siciliana, and nothing has been acted upon since then.

External links



★ Official website

★ Pictures, history, tourism, gastronomy, books, local products, local surnames, transportation in the province of Catania



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