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I note that the article claims that it was buried in lava 7 times. However, when I looked at the remains of the Roman amphitheater, I didn't think they looked very melted.
Perhaps it should be "volcanic ash" rather than lava?
Not that it matters much to the people caught by it, but it matters to the people digging out the city afterwards... --Alvestrand 15:22, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
It was indeed buried in lava seven times. the new city was built upon the old one, and you can see in Stesicoro Square the buried city. maybe citation needed? I'll try to find one, however i'm sure about it.Sickboy3883 17:15, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
According to local tradition, a number of decades ago a whole class went missing whilst visiting the underground amphitheatre (under Piazza Stesicoro). -- E.Wilson 137.195.176.12 14:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
i'm from catania and i've heard about this fact many times, when i was a child.
well, as far as i know, it is just a hoax told to children to stop them trying to explore the underground caves. actually, many people here in catania still believe it is a true story, but there are no proofs neither in local newspapers or reliable books about the truth of this tale. :) -- FrederiQ (registered user of it.wiki) 81.208.83.216 13:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
I believe this article would be improved, and become more informative if a map of Sicily showing where Catania is located was added. Since I am new to the Wikipedia community, I don't know how to do this yet. Could anyone help?--Litguy43 16:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)John LoPresti/litguy43
I had made several momentous improvement on the sections Culture and Transportations of this page and corrected some factual errors on the infobox. These improvement have been cancelled and the page returned to the previous version. Why has this carried out? If somebody asked for sources couldn't he ask here for them? I would be gladly provide them Drunkpiper (talk) 09:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Someone needs to fix the Etymology section. The language is not only atrocious, but the grammar is flat out incorrect. The (incorrectly-used and redundant) long words and awkward phrases don't completely hide the fact that a majority of the sentences are actually fragments lacking main verbs. I tried to merge the first two paragraphs into one that is coherent. I won't say I did a great job. Someone should spend some time to really clean it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.56.5.219 (talk) 10:08, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
In the sentence "After the earthquake of 1693 it was sobriously rebuilt on the same place but with a different orientation." what does "sobriously" mean? A Google search for the word only returns this article, and one other about an italian hotel. Mike Stone (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:32, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
I have made several contributions (expecially on the Culture and Transportation sections) and I've noted that several other contributions on the History sections of this article have been carried out in these days. This could be a great chance to improve the article, that is rated Top priority both on the Sicilian and Italian projects. Such a high priority rating is appropriate, the city being the second city of Sicily and one of the most important in the whole of Italy (10th most populated Italian city, see here [1]). In particular I think that it is needed a section about contemporary history and the Main sights section IMO should be not a mere list. Drunkpiper (talk) 13:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
The paragraph about how American Naval Air Station Sigonella boosts the economy of the city is blatantly exaggerated (its impact on the economy of a 650'000 pop. area is actually not that big) and should be checked for NPOV. Drunkpiper (talk) 20:22, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
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The population data this article cites is a 2015 estimate, but the Italian article cites 2016 data found here. Should we update the data? Black-Velvet 22:24, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
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Would it be more appropriate to replace with raw Italian data , despite need to translate the legend ? Here is the link https://web.archive.org/web/20161002083543/http://clima.meteoam.it/web_clima_sysman/Clino6190/CLINO459.txt Matthew_hk tc 18:21, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
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The article mentions exporting corn twice. First in Foundation "The port of Catania appears to have been much frequented in ancient time and was the chief place of export for the corn of the rich neighbouring plains." And the second time in Roman times "Cicero repeatedly mentions it as, in his time, a wealthy and flourishing city; it retained its ancient municipal institutions, its chief magistrate bearing the title of Proagorus; and appears to have been one of the principal ports of Sicily for the export of corn.[45] "
The corn is imported from Mexico and was started being cultivated in Europe only after Colonial times so at least 16th century. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.86.71.125 (talk) 06:43, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
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If corn wasn't introduced to Europe until after 1492, how does cite #45 say the Cicero notes Catania as a major port for exporting corn? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.222.203.123 (talk) 18:20, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
Big gap in the history of the city from 1860 to WW2, yet that seems to have been a critical period. Can anyone explain what happened economically during this period? It was obviously affluent in the late 19th Century, just from looking at the beautiful buildings but it now looks like not a single building has been painted, repaired or renovated in the last 100 years. Every street is crumbling, filthy, and utterly dilapidated. What went wrong? 2.38.150.95 (talk) 19:33, 17 October 2022 (UTC)