title: San Biagio, Catania
text: # San Biagio, Catania
  
  37°30′27″N 15°05′09″E﻿ / ﻿37.507444°N 15.085917°E﻿ / 37.507444; 15.085917
  
  San Biagio, previously called Sant'Agata alla Fornace or La Fornace or Carcara is a Neoclassical architecture, Roman Catholic parish church located at the western edge of the Piazza Stesicoro in the quartiere San Biagio della Calcarella, of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The church overlooks a portion of the ruins of the former Ancient Roman amphitheater, while behind the apse in succession are two other churches venerating St Agatha of Sicily: the church of Sant'Agata al Carcere and two blocks west facing the opposite direction is Sant'Agata la Vetere.
  
  ## History and Description
  
  Originally there were two churches in this area, one dedicated to St Blaise (Biagio) and a church putatively built atop the furnace from which saint Agatha miraculously escaped. The church dedicated to Sant'Agata was here since the 11th-century. After the 1693 earthquake collapsed the prior structures, the present church building was commissioned and the two parishes joined.
  
  