Catania: Museo Civico Belliniano

Piazza S. Francesco, 3 - 95125 Catania - Tel. 095/7150535

Opening hours: Winter 9 a.m. - 1.30 p.m. / Summer 9 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. holidays 9 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.; closed new year day and 5th february Entrance: Free Services: guided tours, research assistance, archives. Transport from Catania: City buses Nbrs 22, 30, 32

Inaugurated on May 5th 1930, it has been created in the birth place of Vincenzo Bellini. Inside the museum there are three big halls and two small rooms: the sequence of the halls explains the life and carreer of the great composer. Paintings, prints, documents, antiques, busts, autographed manuscripts, a harpsicord, a spinet and two pianoes. His iconography shows all the period of Bellini’s life in the different places where he carried out his carreer: from Catania to Naples, from Milan to Palermo and from London to Paris. Guided tours are available.

Provincial Tourism Board of Catania
http://www.apt-catania.com
E-mail : apt@apt-catania.com