{"id":62810,"date":"2022-05-04T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T09:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/holiday-in-catania-with-children-and-teenagers\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T17:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T15:14:25","slug":"holiday-in-catania-with-children-and-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/holiday-in-catania-with-children-and-teenagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday in Catania with children and teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to be missed is a trip to <strong>Le Ciminiere Complex<\/strong>, the old sulphur factories that are now used as modern exhibition spaces, where you&#8217;ll find the <strong>Museo dello Sbarco<\/strong> museum, a reconstruction of the environments and events of the historic landing in Sicily in 1943 with special effects and stunning interactive simulations, and the fantastic<a href=\"https:\/\/www.museionline.info\/musei\/museo-del-cinema-di-catania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cinema Museum<\/a>, a sentimental journey of discovery into cinema, the &#8220;seventh art&#8221;. They&#8217;re all worth a visit.<\/p>\n<p>With just a little time left over, you&#8217;ll take a quick train ride or scenic bus trip along the streets and neighbourhoods of this baroque city where the black colour of <a href=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/attrazione\/etna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mount Etna&#8217;s<\/a> stone prevail in both the basalt and buildings&#8217; decorations, all while the volcano overlooks it from above.<\/p>\n<p>Going a little outside the city, you easily arrive at the <a href=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/ludum-museo-della-scienza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ludum<\/a> di <strong>Misterbianco<\/strong>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museodellascienza.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Museum of Science<\/a>, where adults and children can experience optical illusions, have their perceptions changed, as well as play electromagnetic and mechanical games, both ancient and modern.<\/p>\n<p>To finish, you jump from &#8220;A Thousand and One Nights&#8221; to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetariozafferana.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planetarium<\/a>\u00a0in <strong>Zafferana <\/strong>where children can have a close encounter with the stars and planets.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/localita\/catania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catania<\/a>, in the ancient puppet workshop, you attend the<a href=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/lopera-dei-pupi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Puppet Opera<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fratellinapoli.it\/bottega-catania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F.lli Napoli<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/acireale-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acireale<\/a>, the <strong>Puppet Theatre by E. Macr\u00ec<\/strong> there&#8217;s also an interesting exhibition, which can be visited for free, with a collection of 40 puppets and various sets. Orlando and Angelica and the puppets by the Ruggiero company are the most famous.<\/p>\n<p>Also visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidstrip.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kids Trip<\/a>, the platform of integrated services dedicated to children and families that organises guided tours in Catania and the surrounding neighbourhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to be missed is a trip to Le Ciminiere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":53384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1921,1917],"tags":[],"luogo":[1862],"stagione":[1877,1875,1876],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Holiday in Catania with children and teenagers - Visit Sicily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holiday in Catania with children and teenagers - 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