Le Ciminiere Exhibition Center - Catania, Italy - Lonely Chimneys on Waymarking.com

The large industrial buildings are predominantly made of brick and lava stone and flanked by tall smokestacks that were used to disperse the fumes coming from the furnace which refined the sulfur and produced its derivatives.

Beginning in the 1980s the Province of Catania initiated the restoration of a number of these buildings, located between Avenue Africa and the northern part of the Catania Central Station on the railway line to Messina.

The project involved maintaining most of the facilities and especially the tall brick chimneys after having stabilized them. These surviving structures have provided the inspiration for the name given to the exhibition center. With an area of ??nearly 25,000 square meters the complex obtained has been used as a multipurpose center.

The center is home to, among other things, a permanent museum on the 1943 allied landings in Sicily, a permanent exhibition of old maps of Sicily (The Collection Gumina), an exhibition of antique radios (Romeo Collection) and a museum of cinemas as well as various temporary exhibitions taking place during year.

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