Palace of the Elephants, now the seat of the Municipality of Catania, was rebuilt after the earthquake of 1693 and its implementation was entrusted to the architect Giovanni Battista Vaccarini in 1732. The name of the building comes from the pediments of the balconies that Vaccarini adorned with elephant to recall the coat of arms of the Sicilian city. The building has a square shape, with a central courtyard and porticoes on two of the four statements, the balcony on the central portal is supported by four granite columns and surmounted by two groups of statues representing Justice and Faith, the coat of arms of the city. Inside the building are exposed to a fifteenth-century bust of St. Agatha the patron saint of the city and two coaches eighteenth century, one of which is used by the mayor during the procession of the patron of February 3 to go to the Church of St. Agatha to deliver to the religious authorities key to the city. On the first floor in the main hall and reception rooms are kept several paintings of Sicilian authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.