Giuseppe Palazzotto (1702 – 1764) was an Italian architect, active in

Catania Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ...

, Sicily. He used a

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style, and was employed extensively during the flurry of reconstruction, after the

1693 Sicily earthquake The 1693 Sicily earthquake was a natural disaster that struck parts of southern Italy near Sicily, then a territory part of the Crown of Aragon by the Kings of Spain Calabria and Malta, on 11 January at around 21:00 local time. This earthquake was ...

which nearly flattened his native city. Giuseppe helped design the church and monastery of San Giuliano, Santa Chiara, Sant'Agostino, Palazzo Zappala, Palazzo del Senato, and the

Palazzo Biscari The Palazzo Paternò Castello di Biscari is a monumental private palace, still owned by a branch of the House of Paternò, located on Via Museo Biscari in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The highly decorative interiors are open for guided tours, a ...

.Drawing for the analysis of architectural language: the case of Giuseppe Palazzotto
Conference: HERITAGE ARCHITECTURE LANDESIGN focus on CONSERVATION REGENERATION INNOVATION", Le vie dei Mercanti, XI Forum Internazionale di Studi,At: Aversa-Capri. Authors: Eugenio Magnano di San Lio, Galizia Mariateresa, and Cettina Santagati, June 2013.

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1706 births 1764 deaths People from Catania 18th-century Italian architects {{architecture-stub