The Porta Ferdinandea, after 1860 entitled Porta Garibaldi, is a triumphal arch built in 1768 in Catania to a design by Stefano Ittar and Francesco Battaglia to commemorate the marriage of King Ferdinand III of Sicily and Maria Carolina of Habsburg-Lorraine. It is located between Piazza Palestro and Piazza Crocifisso, at the end of Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, in the Fortino district, in the Futtinu dialect of Catania.
The area is called 'u Futtinu in memory of a fort built by the viceroy Claudio Lamoraldo, prince of Ligne, after the lava eruption of 1669 which struck the city on the whole western side, annulling its medieval defenses. Of the work of advanced fortification that rose south of piazza Palestro, now disappeared, only one door remains in via Sacchero.
Porta Garibaldi
Address: Piazza Palestro, 95122 Catania CT
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