The 18th-century Arco di San Benedetto, part of the Church and Monastery of St. Benedict, spans the width of Via Crociferi and marks the beginning of the street. Just a short distance further down, the Church of St. Francesco Borgia turns heads with its two dramatic stone staircases, and, further on, the Jesuit College features its original cloister with elegant arches and lava-stone columns. Directly across the street, the Church of San Giuliano is attributed to the architect Giovanni Battista Vaccarini. The street’s Convento dei Crociferi and adjoining Church of St. Camillus, home to a Byzantine Madonna and Child, is also worth noting, as is Villa Cerami, one of the city’s most prestigious historic palaces and today home to the Catania University Faculty of Law.