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Index: Description The territory of the Common of Santa Venerina in the antiquity was characterized by the presence of a big forest and small plains and hills inhabited from the Sicilian people. The discovery of gold coins and silver in some sepolcri digs in the territory of Linera testifies that the territory was inhabited later on also from the Roman. It must arrive to the age bizantina in Sicily in order to find again traces more meaningful than takeovers. To such period laughed in fact the little church of Santo Stefano, to which a monastery was annexed that accommodated one community of Basilian monacs. After the period of the Arabic domination, after the Normans christian reconquest, arrived to Santo Stefano the Benedictines monacs. In order much time the history of Santa Venerina has been tied to that one of Aci since the great conte Ruggero entrusted this last to the Abbot of the monastery of the Benedictines of Venerina Saint. From always pertaining to the territory of Acireale, the country was instituted in common in the 1934. Read more on Sicily vacation deals Index Attractions: The Church of the Sacred Heart
The Church of the Sacred Heart constructed between 1875 and 1878 has a remarkable artistic interest. The external structure of the building is much evocative and the facade to three orders is introduced with an imposing and an elegant cupola of optimal invoice. The Church of Venera Saint
It was opened to the cult in 1749, and was initially a rural construction with only a bell tower and one room for the chaplain. It was widened in 1754 with the construction of four lateral nails head and the relati altars. It frescoes inner are of remarkable interest, between the more important we remeber the Saint Immense Giuseppe di Paola, together to a group of 700 sec. burlaps representing the Sacred Family, Immaculate Concezione and Sant' Antonio. Natural resources Santa Venerina is dipped in a landscape from the various characteristics. Similar to a terrace, it shows on the Jonio see, the port of Riposto, Taormina and the campaign where the vineyards rise.
Index Typical Prodcts Santa Venerina is known for its grape , the fruit, the citruses and the nocciole.
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Festivities and events - Venera saint, the first Sunday of August.
- Saint Sebastiano patron of the citizen, the last Sunday of January.
- Living manger, keeps every year in the month of December in the public public square.
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