Roman tomb in the former convent of Carmine (Mausoleum of Stesicoro)
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Roman tomb in the former convent of Carmine (Mausoleum of Stesicoro)

Tradition has it that the poet Stesicoro was buried with all honors in Catania, the city where he spent the last years of his existence, at the Porta di Jaci and precisely in the gardens of Baron Nicolò Leontini. These gardens should correspond to the southern area of ​​Piazza Carlo Alberto. Libertini thought he recognized a cell that belonged to the tomb of Stesicoro inside the convent annexed to the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Carmine, which since 1866 has been used as a military barracks. In reality the tomb is erroneously attributed to Stesicoro. This is a Roman house tomb from the XNUMXnd century BC  

The former convent, the adjoining church and the Roman tomb are bound assets pursuant to Legislative Decree 42/2004 as the complex constitutes an important testimony of eighteenth-century religious convent architecture, within which there is a Roman house tomb in characteristic lava stone. of the Etna area- 

download decree:

DDS n. 7560 of 17.10.2007/XNUMX/XNUMX

 

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