The creation of the Botanical Garden of Catania, which covers an area of 16,000 square meters., Owes its creation to Monaco Benedictine Francesco Tornabene that gave rise in 1858. Inside you can see an imposing neoclassical building with marble staircases and columns that support a coffered ceiling decorated with plaster rosettes and a garden with about 2000 general succulent, exotic plants, greenhouses and circular tanks for growing plants water. In 1865, thanks to the donation of a private Catania, the botanical garden was expanded with the addition of a new area devoted to the will of the same donor, the creation of a Sicilian garden, consisting of wild plants of the flora of Sicily.