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Via Crociferi is a short but extraordinarily beautiful baroque street in the heart of Catania, recognised by UNESCO as part of the Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto. In barely 300 metres it concentrates four monumental churches, two convents, and the Arco di San Benedetto.
After the 1693 earthquake destroyed Catania, the religious orders rebuilt their churches and convents along this street with competitive grandeur. The result is one of the densest concentrations of baroque ecclesiastical architecture in Italy. UNESCO inscribed the Val di Noto towns, including this street, as a World Heritage Site in 2002.