Pedagaggi Palace
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Pedagaggi Palace

Palazzo Pedagaggi in Catania, is located in Via Vittorio Emanuele (n. 49) at the intersection with Piazza Cutelli occupying the entire block between these and via Sorrentino and Pedagaggi.
It was built starting from 1803 by the baron of Pedagaggi on a project by the engineer Salvatore Zahra Buda, while the engineer Mario Musumeci took care of following the works until their final completion in 1809. Don Vincenzo Guttadauro, baron of Pedagaggi, had inherited from his father, Don Enrico, 1819st Prince of Emmanuel, a wing of his choice of the nearby Reburdone Palace but came into conflict with his brother Luigi, the Prince of Emmanuel, he chose to build his own independent house. Died childless in 1859, the baron left all his possessions to his great-granddaughter Eleonora Guttadauro including the palace which, for Eleonora's marriage, passed to the Paternò Castello di Carcaci until it was sold in 1889 to Baron Calì, whose family kept it until XNUMX when it was sold to the Banco di Sicilia and then passed in part to the University of Catania which installed the Faculty of Political Sciences there.
Included in the list of listed architectural heritage (DA 7516 of 09/11/99)

Card insertion: Ignatius Caloggero

Photo: web

Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero, Web 

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