EnnaCatenanuova.
Many towns are mediaeval in origin, but Catenanuova is not so old. It was founded in 1754 by Andrea Riggio at the meeting place of a number of traditional routes of communication. The great mass of Etna dorninates the wide spread of the surrounding countryside.

In the town the layout of the streets is absolutely regular, with the streets at right-angles to each other, centred round the Chiesa Madre and the Palazzo del Signore. Nearby (about 2 km away) is the Fondaco Cuba, a farrnstead where Wolfgang Goethe stayed in the 18th c., asalso Victor Amadeus II of Savoy and Queen Maria.