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Aci Sant' Antonio, 13 km from Catania, province of which it is part, is placed to 300 m above the sea level. Of medieval origin, it is an important agricultural centre that it boasts also a handicraft interesting production, particularly represented from the famous Sicilian "Carretti": in Aci S. Antonio in fact it is still possible to visit some small local handicraft cnters still specialized in the fabrication of the “Carretti”, which represents, in the same way of the Sicilian "pupi" (the traditional marionettes of the popular epic theater), one of the maximum Symbols of the Sicilian handicraft. As architectonic patrimony, particular mention deserves the Dome, the Church of S. Michele, the Palazzo Riggio and the Palazzo Spitaleri.
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