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The natural park of Cyclops Riviera 


-Acitrezza a fishing village 7 km from Catania the setting of Giovanni Verga's great novel I Malavoglia and Luchino Visconti's black-and-wite film "The Earth Trembles" .Today Acitrezza is also a summer seaside resort. It is famous for its "needles" huge black masses of lava from Etna, which according to myth were hurled by Polyphemus at the fleeing Ulysses' ship or, according to another version, at the lovers Acis and Galatea.  

     


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Acicastello, The town developed around the castle that was built by the Normans in 1076. The castle later became the domain of Ruggero di Laurìa and it was taken by Frederick II of Aragon in 1397 . Wich originally was connected ti the mainland by a drawx bridge, is built in lava stone, and it still has the massive aspect of a fortified stronghold, rising sheer above the sea. It contains the civic museum, which covers mineralogy, palaentology, and archeology.  
  

   

How to reach it 
Motorway A18 exit  Acireale 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 
  
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