This year we attended the Carnival party at Palazzo Manganelli in Catania. Nice music, pasta buffet and an ok bar.

Palace is built by the Tornabene family in 1400, but then have had several owners. The Palace was restored and enlarged in the second half of the nineteenth century with the addition of the second floor (where today is a great hotel), the interiors were richly redecorated in the style of the time according to new architectural concepts, where worked the famous painter Giuseppe Sciuti, all work ordered by Princess Angela Patern? of Manganelli Torresi. Currently the palace has a fa?ade in pure late baroque/ rococo style and with a hanging garden. Very famous in Catania, extended on two levels joined by a romantic staircase with two fountains and a nymphaeum. It is currently owned by descendants Borghese princes, renting it for events.

As usual the party got interrupted by the police sometime after midnight due to administrative irregularities, but that is typical in Sicily so…

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I ?r deltog vi i karnevalfesten i Palatset Manganelli i Catania. Trevlig musik, pastabuff? och en ok bar.

Slottet ?r byggt av familjen Tornabene ?r 1400, men har sedan haft flera ?gare. Slottet restaurerades och byggdes ut under andra h?lften av artonhundratalet med till?gg av andra v?ningen (d?r det idag ?r ett hotell), inredningen var rikt inredd tidsenligt i nya arkitektoniska begrepp, d?r arbetade bland annat k?nda m?laren Giuseppe Sciuti, allt arbete best?llt av prinsessan Angela Patern? fr?n Manganelli Torresi. F?r tillf?llet har slottet en fasad i ren senbarock/ rokoko stil och med en h?ngande tr?dg?rd. Mycket k?nd i Catania, byggd p? tv? niv?er f?renade med en romantisk trappa med tv? font?ner och en nymphaeum. Det ?gs f?r n?rvarande av ?ttlingar, Borghese prinsar, som hyr det f?r event.

Som vanligt avbr?ts festen av polisen n?gon g?ng efter midnatt p? grund av administrativa oegentligheter, men det ?r typiskt p? Sicilien, s? …

Video of the early evening / Video fr?n tidig kv?ll