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San Gregorio di Catania is a city of about
10,000 located 321 m a.s.l. It is a major agricultural producer of cereals,
cheese, walnuts, olives, almonds, honey, grape, wine and flowers. It was named
after Pope San Gregorio, whose mother was of Sicilian origin.
The existence of ancient human settlements in the area is testified by grottos once inhabited. The Chiesa dell’Immacolata is a remnant of the Norman age. The earliest human settlement was one of the so-called “Hamlets of Catania”, and belonged in the 17th century to the noble Massas, the Dukes of Paternò. It then passed to Catania and Aci Castello governments. It became autonomous in 1856.
The Baroque Mother Church, the church of S. Filippo d’Argirò –
built in 1505 by Lord Alvaro Paternò as his family chapel – and the Norman
Church of the Immaculate Conception, restructured through the centuries, are
the most impressive buildings in town.