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Sant'Antonino is part of the town of Mascali, in the province of Catania, in the region of Sicily.
The village or place of Sant'Antonino is 1, 16 kilometers far from the same town of Mascali to whom it belongs.
The village or place of Sant'Antonino rises 112 meters above sea level.
Such a small fraction is all that remains of the ancient Mascali. It was in fact a neighborhood of the city of the seven towers miraculously spared from the lava flow of 1928 that buried the ancient town of Mascali. After reconstruction, it became a separate fraction, given the new placid location in the center of Mascali.
Church of Jesus and Mary
The church of Jesus and Mary, dating back to the eighteenth century, once a branch of the Mascali cathedral, has an interesting portal in lava stone, an eighteenth-century canvas of Jesus' encounter with Mary on the crossroads, an important statue of Our Lady of Grace in paper mill and a bell tower built after the lava eruption in gratitude for the surviving danger from the lava river. Following the destruction of Mascali, it became the "Mother Church" for all the Mascals and guarded the simulacrum of the Immaculate and San Leonardo until 1935.

Traditions and folklore
Every November 9th, starting in 2013, the patron saint Sant'Antonio of Padua is thanked for the miraculous event of salvation from the eruption of Etna in 1928. The feast of the patron saint is celebrated on Sunday after 13 June, with great attendance of faithful coming from many nearby countries as well.

Church of the Nunziatella
It is the most important monument of Nunziata, it belonged to a basilic monastery that was able to coagulate a small inhabited center by giving it its name. The church of the "Nunziatella" that before the devastating lava flow that buried the ancient Mascali had some devotional importance in the district, Inside there are preserved some remains of frescoes. The execution of frescoes can be attributed to the second half of the 12th century and are an example of pure Byzantine painting; technical affinities with the frescoes performed in the Byzantine Empire towards the middle of that century. In the apse of the apse we observe the Pantocrator Christ with the crocodile nimbo, bless with his right hand and hold the book with his left. Below to the left of Christ a bust with the head of an angel visible; at the top of Christ's right hand a winged angel and with his hands covered in reverence in the face of Christ. At present, the church presents itself to the visitor as a great unique environment and with a wooden cover. The restoration works completed in 2013, in addition to the restoration of the church itself, have brought to light, in the adjacent rooms, the presence of an apse and of the three aisles with fragments of mosaic floor that lead to a period of edifice between V and VI century. The church is visitable by appointment.