Macchia di Giarre: Museo degli Usi e dei Costumi delle Genti dell'Etna

Lungotorrente Emanuele Filiberto 95010 Macchia di Giarre tel. 095/ 7791769 (Delegazione Comunale)

Opening hours: 9 A.M. - 1 P.M.; 4 P.M. - 7 P.M.; open during local feasts; daily opening with reservation. Entrance: Free. Services: Guided tours. Transport from Catania to Giarre: Etna Trasporti, SAIS and Buda bus services.

Macchia di Giarre Museum, inaugurated in 1995, is an etnographic structure for the recovery of the historical memories of daily country life: inside five big halls, the rooms of a farm and a XIX farmer's house has been accurately restored. There are agricultural tools, a spindle and a distaff dated 1750, a loom, a reel, various dresses among which newborn dresses and some wedding dresses, patronal feast and Sunday dresses, embroideries and a precious collection of daguerrotypes and old pictures. The peculiarity of this museum is to transform itself into a "living" museum: in fact, it is equiped to make the spectators live the traditional and very old local customs according to the numerous popular feasts, forgotten by many people today.

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