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Via Etnea
Facing the Villa Bellini gardens on Via Etnea, Savia has fried arancini and layered Sicilian sweets since 1897, and is widely credited with the granita-and-brioche breakfast that defines the city's mornings. The counters run to cannoli filled to order, cassata, minne di Sant'Agata and marzipan fruit alongside savory rusticana.
Best for Granita, arancini and Sicilian pastries
Catania, Aci Sant'Antonio
A working tailoring atelier making theatrical costumes, dancewear, custom drapery and personalized embroidery to measure. The workshop splits its trade between Catania and nearby Aci Sant'Antonio.
Best for Custom tailoring, costumes and embroidery
San Gregorio di Catania
Giuseppe Sorgi's workshop in San Gregorio di Catania has hand-painted artistic ceramics and shaped terracotta for over fifty years, extending to Etna lava-stone work, tiled countertops and garden pieces. Alongside decorative wares it takes on custom commissions and restoration in traditional Sicilian technique.
Best for Hand-painted ceramics and terracotta
Catania, Sicily
Azzurra Profumi is a Sicilian landscape perfumery, offering Catania scents of citrus groves and Etna air. The range centers on fragrances, Beauty, with production associated with Sicily, Italy.
Best for Fragrances, Beauty
Misterbianco (Catania)
Founded in 2012 in Misterbianco on Catania's edge, this producer dries and preserves Sicilian fruit, legumes, herbs and spices and bottles oils, pesto and condiments using salt, vinegar and sun-drying. Ingredients are sourced from Sicilian farms and worked by artisanal methods for gift boxes and pantry staples.
Best for Sicilian dried fruit, spices and preserves
Catania / Italy
Mizzica on Via Garibaldi in Catania is a souvenir shop and a workshop, where the owner makes and personalises.
Best for Sicilian jewellery and decorative objects
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Moltisanti focuses on Catanese leather craft, Sicilian bags of baroque-island character. Production is associated with Italy, while the range centers on luxury leather, bags.
Best for Luxury leather, bags
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ORBIS city intelligence
The Catania list mixes a city pastry shop with two workshops outside the centre. Pasticceria Savia is one shop with two street fronts, at Via Etnea 300–304 and Via Umberto 2–6.S1
Atelier Siculo is a clothing and embroidery workshop at Via Volta Nespola 5/B in Aci Sant’Antonio.S2 L’Arte Antica is Giuseppe Sorgi’s ceramics and terracotta workshop at Viale Europa 5 in San Gregorio di Catania, which also works lava stone and takes commissions.S3
Both workshops are a separate trip from the city. For a commission, send your measurements with a photograph first, then ask for a written date before you pay.
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