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ACIREALE

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 148 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACIREALE  , a

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town and episcopal see of the
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province of
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Catania,
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Sicily; from the town of the same name it is distant g M . N. by E . Pop . (19o1) 35,418 . It has some importance as a thermal station, and the springs were used by the
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Romans . It takes its name from the
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river
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Acis, into which, according to the
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legend, Acis, the
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lover of Galatea, was changed after he had been slain by
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Polyphemus . The rocks which Polyphemus hurled at Ulysses are identified with the seven Scogli de' Ciclopi, or Faraglioni, a little to the
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south of Acireale .

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