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The great hall has few comparisons in the civil architecture of the time: built a decade earlier, in Sicily it can perhaps hold its own only the hall of mirrors in Palermo's Palazzo Ganci. The hall cost the prince a great financial commitment: between 1769 and 1773 the considerable sum of 3686 onze appears to have been spent on its construction. But the prince paid great attention to promoting his image and even for his last trip he wanted this hall to be the setting. In accordance with the construction of a postmortem image worthy of his social position and lineage, the obsequies organized for him by his son Vincent could stand comparison with those of a sovereign or high prelate.
We can see the scene thanks to an engraving from 1786: the large catafalque at whose corners were four obelisks culminated, in the center on a high podium, with his simulacrum, which from the elliptical eye seemed almost ready to take flight into the light and the sky. Even in death perhaps the prince imagined that from the lantern in the salon he could still see the sky and the sea of his beloved Catania.

? What were once the courtyards of the museum today are almost secret spaces of private residences. Crossing the entrance placed on Viaa del Museo Biscari, one passes from the clamor of downtown Catania to the peace of a hortus conclusus filled with an unexpected feeling of peace.
Here Prince Ignatius wanted the museum of the antiquities he had collected in Sicily and Italy, inaugurated in 1758. To house his archaeological collections in functional spaces, he had this wing of the palace built in an area adjacent to his apartments and reception rooms.
After the catastrophic earthquake of 1693, the prince was granted the privilege of building his magnificent residence over one of the 16th-century bastions that gave directly onto Catania's ancient marina.
And again, from here in the heart of Catania's historic center, one need only climb upward a few meters to sweep with one's gaze from the Ionian Sea toward the Baroque domes to majestic Mount Etna.

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Antonio Amato ?the frenzied?
The courtyards of the museum
The Orchestra Hall
Prince Biscari and Freemasonry

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? Apartments
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These are the private apartments of the Princes of Biscari.

? Putti Gallery
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The Palace's balcony, which houses the distinctive Wave Staircase and splendid frescoes on the vaults.

? Green Hall
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Contains paintings and overdoors, with the distinctive terracotta floor inlaid with white Syracuse stone.

? Hall of the Feuds
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Contains several paintings of the Biscari fiefs.

? Orchestra Hall
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Magnificent example of rococo.

? Red Hall
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Contains portraits of the Biscari family.