Giovanni Battista Vaccarini - Great Attractions (Catania, Italy)

Take a tour of Giovanni Battista Vaccarini in Catania, Italy - part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats. Catania, Italy is home to a vast array of beautiful architecture in classical, Roman, and Baroque styles. Among all these buildings is the great Duomo, a building with bold outlines and striking shades of grey. It is considered to be the best work of the Italian architect Giovanni Battista Vaccarini. He built many churches and other buildings in the distinctive Sicilian Baroque style, most of them in and around Catania. The Duomo was completed in 1736 and has one of the most beautiful facades in the city. While wandering through the streets of Catania, it is not at all uncommon to pass by several of Vaccarini's buildings in the same day.