Hertz Catania Airport Car Hire

Catania, Palermo, Sicily's second largest city and capital of the province of Catania, is located on the East coast of the Italian island.

International Airport Fontanarossa, situated only 6 km from the city centre, can you easily, preferably already in advance collect the booked rental car, over the Internet and start your holiday. Of course, there are also numerous car hire companies in town.

Of Catania from there are train connections to all major cities of the island such as Syracuse, Messina, Palermo, and even to Milan and Rome. You are a car on the road, lead motorways after Palermo and Messina.

Catania is the Etna only 30 km away from Europe's aktivstem volcano. The city is only the gate for your Sicily holidays by the traffic and the somewhat schmudelligen by the ash rain of Delletna facades, not a typical tourist resort, and for many tourists.

But who goes shopping and evening would like to draw to the houses is the place.

Via Etna and Corso Sicilia are the most famous shopping streets. However, the lunch break should be taken into account from one to four o'clock. In the evening can the visitor culinary delights then let one of the many small restaurants and then drag in the Center from bar to bar and dive into the nightlife of the city.

In the 8th century. Catania was founded in BC by Greek colonists from Naxos in the 3rd century BC Roman Vorherschaft to the main trading base of the island. Duch the Arabs, who took advantage of the fertile soil of the area to the cultivation of citrus fruit, the city was also an important agricultural Centre.

After a volcanic eruption in the year 1669, a severe earthquake in 1693, the today's old town in the Baroque style was rebuilt and is now with eight other towns of the Val di Noto on the list of UNESCO World Heritage site.