The Locauto office in Catania San Giuseppe La Rena is located 3km from the Fontanarossa airport and it can be reached from the "Aeroporto" exit of the ring road.
Locauto parking is located outside the rental office and has reserved parking lots.
To return your car to Locauto in Catania, reach us over at Via San Giuseppe La Rena 19 D/E at the time selected when you booked your car. You can agree upon a different drop-off time, outside opening hours, with our local staff.
There is probably no city capable of epitomizing the concept of resilience as Catania can: earthquakes, invasions, volcanic eruptions have turned it into dust many times across the centuries, and yet it has risen again and again, as the motto inscribed onto the Garibaldi Gate by the city entrance remembers. After the last reconstruction in the 17th century, the city was given its present unmistakable Baroque identity: in order to discover and appreciate it to the fullest, you can start your visit of Catania from the Cathedral square, at the center of which stands the Amenano’s fountain with the signature elephant which is the symbol of the city.
The Cathedral is dedicated to the city’s patron saint, Saint Agatha, who inspired one of the most famous Sicilian desserts, the minnuzzi 'i sant'Àjita, delicious tiny cassatas with a very distinguishable shape, a must-try delicatessen; the edifice is truly majestic – it was rebuilt entirely in Carrara marble after a series of natural disasters, and it showcases statues on each order, while inside the basilica are treasured the remains of the saint. Similarly to the Cathedral, Baroque is also the majority of the palaces and churches that can be found along Via Etnea, the benchmark place for shopping and casual strolling, and one of the best spots in town to taste some of the islander specialties: from arancini to cannoli, from eggplant parmigiana to croissants with slush, from Saint Agatha’s olives (small cakes made of green almond paste) to iris (a dessert born in Palermo, but typical of Catania as well, fried and filled with crème patissière or chocolate cream).
The most sumptuous triumph of Baroque has its home, though, in Via Dei Crociferi: within a 200-meters long street, you can enjoy the sight of four beautiful churches. On the other hand, an iconic Gothic building is the Ursino Castle, erected in the 13th century and now the seat of a museum that gathers mosaics and arms and armors from different historical periods. In Catania there are also other interesting museums, like the Giovanni Verga House Museum, the Historic Museum of the Landing in Sicily 1943, the Museum Of Puppet Theater – Puppetry Of The Napoli Brothers and the MacS, the Museum of Contemporary Art.
If you have more than a couple days to make a tour of the province of Catania by car, there are many interesting landmarks that you can include in your route. For instance, if you’re interested in the Sicilian Baroque, you could travel to Noto, Modica and Ragusa; you may also organize an autonomous trip to the Etna, the biggest active volcano in Europe: you can get as far as the Silvestri Craters by car and then continue by foot. The Etna is a constant presence and reference point for all the people from Catania, who behold it in awe every day when they walk down the streets of their city. The volcano is also the maker of the so called Riviera of Cyclops, a stretch of coast north of Catania which prides in its black igneous rocks; along the Riviera there are many nice little hamlets suitable for a summer vacation.
Not far from Catania are some bigger, wonderful towns like Taormina and Syracuse, both of which can be reached in less than an hour, where you can appreciate the extraordinary traces left by all the ancient civilizations that have lived in Sicily across the centuries. All of this couldn’t be enjoyed so easily by relying on public transport, which is sadly unreliable all throughout the region. Locauto in Catania will sort everything out for you, though: offering all tourists the means to travel safely and efficiently across Sicily, our car rental office in Catania, in the suburb of San Giuseppe La Rena, will give you exactly what you need thanks to its varied car fleet and customizable rental formulas. Check out all the available models and all the extras, the warranties and convenient rates offered by Locauto!
Our Catania San Giuseppe La Rena car rental office aims at giving a reference point to tourists landing at Catania airport who want to visit our city first and then be free to explore the rest of Sicily. Our office, located 3km from Catania airport, will allow you to get to the city center in less than fifteen minutes by car following the seaside motorway. The main highways connecting Catania to the other Sicilian towns and cities are also within a short distance.
Locauto Rent is a 100% Italian company, active in the rent-a-car market since late 70s. Our rental locations network covers the main Italian airports, the biggest railway stations and the major cities. We provide a full range of rental services: short, medium and long term, van rental service and a truly innovative digital full self-service car rental. Our fleet is of the highest level and is among the youngest in the market in terms of average age. We are commonly known for convenient, flexible and transparent pricing solutions and we are recognized for our service, human and technologically evolved at once.
This imposing Baroque edifice has an awesome Carrara marble façade. Inside it are preserved the remains of the city’s patron saint.
Writer Giovanni Verga’s childhood house still has its original interiors and holds Verga’s personal library, made up of more than 2600 volumes.
Renown for the production of a special type of chocolate with salt crystals, its historic center is inscribed in the UNESCO’s World Heritage.
An ancient enemy of Athens, first colonized by the Romans and then by the Arabs, Syracuse discloses an unparalleled cultural, artistic and archeological richness.
