Catania

Catania’s airport, known as Fontanarossa or Vincenzo Bellini Airport (CTA), is located 7 kilometres south-west of the city and handles both domestic and international flights. Buses (AMT Alibus) connect the airport to Catania city centre and leave every 20 minutes from 5 am to midnight. There are also several other bus companies, operating other cities on Sicily such as Etna Trasporti to Taormina. The journey takes 50 minutes. Sais Autolinee takes travellers to Palermo in 2–3 hours. Bus tickets can be bought at the currency exchange office or at a newspaper shop inside the airport terminal. A taxi from the airport to the city takes about 15 minutes. There are taxi ranks outside the airport.

The post office in Catania is situated at Via Etnea 215 and can be recognised by the yellow "PT" sign. Stamps can be bought at tobacconists that either carry the blue and white ”Tabacchi” sign or are simply marked by the "T" sign.

Farmacia Caltabiano Dr. Mauro Marcello Piazza Stesicoro 36, Catania +39 095 327647 Monday–Friday 8:30am–1pm / 4:30pm–8pm Farmacia Cutelli Fonzo Franca Via Vittorio Emanuele 54, Catania +39 095 531 400 www.farmaciacutelli.it Monday–Friday 7am–12am, Saturday 7am–1pm / 7pm–12am, Sunday 7pm–12am Farmacia Lucina 125 Via Umberto I, Catania +39 095 311691 Monday–Saturday 8:30am–1pm / 4:30pm–8:30pm

Country code: +39 Area code: 095 (also dialled in Catania). If you call Italy from abroad, you must always dial zero in the area code (do not omit it as is the general practice when making international telephone calls), e.g. +39 095 + the number.