What to see

CHIESA DI S.GIUSEPPE DEI TEATINI/CHURCH OF SAINT JOSEF OF “TEATINI”: In Baroque style it faces one of the four corners of Vigliena’square; it is formed from two overlapping basilicas.

CHIESA DELLA GANCIA(SANTA MARIA DEGLI ANGELI)/(SAINT MARY OF THE ANGELS: the inside is decorated with putties of the Serpotta; it is famous also for the “hole of salvation” through which some Mazzini’s followers found escape from the Borbonics furies.

CHURCH S.STANISLAO KOTSKA: The building made part of a Jesuitical complex. The insider naval wich is built in a single absid that contains numerous artworks starting from putties from the 700’of the presbiterial zone. Also the side nails are decorated with putties, precious marbles and furnishings. One of the nails presents images of the Madonna del Lume object of an intense devotion. Church of Santa Ninfa: The church was built for the will of the Camilliani’s order, inside you will find artworks from Borremans and fine statue of the Saint Patron of Palermo Saint Rosalia.

CHURCH OF SAINT AGOSTINO AND THE CHIOSTRO: Its facade is still in Via Maestri d’Acqua, this ancient curch was built in the last years of 1200’ thanks two of the most importants noble families in Palermo the Scalfani’s and the Chiaramonte’s, they putted their coat of arms aside the church that are still visible. On the facade make beautiful extension of himself the circular glass and the portal. Perhaps the portal is work of Antonio Gagini and the Mancino. The inside is rich of putties of the Serpotta. Every years Saint Rita’s Eve is held.

CHURCH OF SAINT GIOVANNI OF THE HERMITS: Giulio Carlo Argan writes: “The Normans that established their dynasty in Sicily in 1072, destroys the monuments, not the tradition of the Arab and Byzantine architecture. Saint Giovanni of the Hermits in Palermo (1132) is Arabic in the clear relationship between the cubical bodies and the hemispherical domes”. Sure more than to that than a Christian church this church sends back to the conception spaces them of the mosques Muslims and such call-back to the East comes still more emphasized from the domes of ignited red colour.

CHURCH OF THE MAGIONE (OR CHURCH OF THE SANTISSIMA TRINITA') AND THE CHIOSTRO: it is one of the most ancient churches of Palermo, situated near the Kalsa quarter, In front of the homonymous public square. It was founded in 1191 from the chancellor of the reign Norman Mattero Aiello and annexed to the contiguous abbey. In 1197 it came protected under the order of the Teutonic Knights who, as a result of donations, increased their property and the prestige. Now the church, with annexed the chiostro built in 12th century, is introduced as a detail Arabic example of Norman art with the pointed windows embedded and the reason of the interlaced arched ones reproduced in the typical apse of the period.

CHURCH OF SAINT CATERINA : The church is contiguous to a monastery founded in the 1300's from the Dominican nuns. Saint Caterina shows oneself on two public squares: before it there’s the Pretoria public square that stands in front of the homonymous fountain, while the second one is square Bellini where the Church of the Martorana and the Church of Saint Cataldo can be visited. The thing that hits more is the rich decoration of the inside, the navata, typical of the Counter Reformation period. The system to classroom concurred with the nuns to participate - not seen - to the liturgical rituals from the arranged chorus to the income through the support of two columns. Church of the SS. Salvatore: it is a situated baroque church along Corso Vittorio Emanuele in Palermo. the celebrity of this place derives from a second legend which Queen Costanza of Altavilla, future mother of the emperor Federico II, would have been abbess of the convent. A tenacious tradition tied to this monastery also Saint Rosalia, mistress female saint of Palermo.

CHURCH OF MADONNA DELL' ITRIA OR DEI COCCHIERI: The Church was realized at the end of the 15th century from the will of the coachmen category, that financed the construction. Under of the Church can be find the Crypt, that anciently was used from the brotherhood of Coachmen and the Coachmen cult. This atmosphere, beginning from the 17th century, came destined to the interment of the members of the brotherhood of Jesus and Maria. For this reason the walls were decorated with frescos that alludes the salvation.

CHURCH OF S. ANTONIO ABBATE: it puts into effect them church rises on a place, where in Muslim age there was a door dictates Bab of the Bahr, that is Door of Sea. The door also was called from Patitelli for the presence of some craftsmen’s manufacturers of hooves. In the 1567/68 the door was destroyed for the construction of the new Cassaro. A first construction of the church laughed them to the 13th century. In 1302-13 was an addition a Tower for will of the Chiaramonte’s Family. In the 1536the church was renewed assuming puts into effect of the architectonic order. In 1823 later on to some damages provoked from the earthquake, a several restoration was endured, till the 1888.the income a historical newspaper stand the “Ecce Homo”.

CHURCH OF SAINT GIOVANNI OF THE LEPROUS ONES: The Church of Saint Giovanni of the Leprous ones has been erected from Roberto the Guiscardo nell' year 1071 on the ruderi of an old Arabic castle. It was before a long series of constructions normanne that they gave to Palermo quell' typical image of the tondeggianti cupolas of Saint Giovanni of the Hermits, the Martorana and Saint Cataldo.Secondo the legend was constructed in 1071, while the Normanni held under siege the city. After to have conquered the Yahia castle (of which little traces in the pavement of the church remain only) - the Normanni would have built up on its bases the same church, dedicating it to S. Giovanni once happened the conquest. The small church is considered one of the buildings in style normanno more antichi on the palermitano ground and in the years it had varied functions. It in fact was used at first to military hospital and as a result of leper-hospital (from here the name).

CHURCH OF SAINT TERESA TO THE KALSA: The Church of Saint Teresa to the Kalsa is a baroque building that shows himself on the Kalsa square of the homonymous quarter of Palermo. The church was built in 1686 on a plan of Giacomo Amato. inside it is possible to see the detailed putties a work of Giuseppe and Procopio Serpotta, respective brother and son that realized in the first years of 17th century. The altar centres the church and comes from the demolished Church Della Raccomandante that is situated in Via Maqueda. The inside nave wich communicates with the lateral nails.

CHURCH OF S. MARIA IN VALVERDE: The church has got an immense cured marmoreal adobe from Mariano Smiriglio in 1633. Are present also many kinds of putties such as: animals, flowers, plants men, women, “putti”, angels, the Sacred One, the profane one. The church was annexed to a Carmelite monastery that does exist no more. They worked to the plan of the sculptures from Paolo Amato and after continued Andrea Palma. The diocesan museum of Palermo preserve some important pieces of the Greater Altar.

CHURCH OF SANT’IGNAZIO ALL' OLIVELLA: The Church of S. Ignazio all’ Olivella is considered one of sumptuous baroque monuments of the city. The building was constructed - between 1598 and 1622, on plan of Antonino Muttone - in the place that the tradition indicates as the villa where lived S. Rosalia. Anyway, the church was completed in 1732, when the cupola was added. From the transetto of right it is approached the beautifulst Oratory, work of Venanzio Marvuglia, that it contains the so-called “putties della Gloria” from Marabitti.

SAINT CHURCH MARIA OF THE MERCY: Erected between 1678 and 1684 and planned from Giacomo Amato, the monument is inspired to the roman baroque. The inside beyond the greater altar in neoclassic style with the tabernacle in lapis-lazulis gems contains in the lateral nails contains remarkable burlaps. There can be observed putties of Giacomo Serpotta, frescoes from Borremans. It frescoes it to all of the time are work of Antonio Grain of 1708. The statues of Saint Rosalia, female saint of Palermo are present and dell' Immaculate, that capacity in procession from the Brotherhood that comes annually.

CHURCH OF SAINT FRANCISCO SAVERIO: It was commissioned from the Jesuits in 1684 but devised from the architect Angelo Italia. The construction lasted several years and finished in 1711 when it was consecrated to the cult. But the intense activities still continued in order much time.The outside has a cupola centred them for four smaller cupolas, are approached through 7 steps as 7 were the days that God employed in order to create the world and the mankind. A bell tower of the same architecture of the church has a not working clock today. The inside is to Greek cross and there are six nails head beyond the altar that centres them of remarkable invoice.

UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI:

CENTRO DEL RETTORATO: PALAZZO CHIARAMONTE-STERI: it puts into effect that the centro del Rettorato of the Università degli studi of steri Palermo is the palace chiaramonte. Begun in the first years of 14th century, it was the great dwelling of Manfredi Chiaramonte, Noun of the immense and powerful feud of Modica (said " Regnum in Regno" for its privileges), to whose commitments must the ceiling of Sala Magna. From the beginnings of 15th century to 1517 it was the residence of the Spanish governor, then centre of the Direction Customs and, from 1600 to 1782, accommodated the court of the Inquisition.

HYSTORICAL PLACE:

JUDGEMENT:

OFFICES:

ORATORIES:

ORATORY OF SAINT CITA: Risen in first of the 17th century in an annexed area to the church of Saint Cita, it accommodates a sumptuous baroque decorative apparatus, a masterpiece of Giacomo Serpotta (from 1685 to 1690 approximately). Along the walls, the bands in stucco represent the Mysteries of the SS. Rosary; while the great windows are framed from allegorical statues of Virtue and crowds of putti.

ORATORY OF THE ROSARY IN SAINT DOMENICO: It was built in 1574 for wanting of the Company of the Madonna of the Rosary, beside the church of Saint Domenico. the building, to the noun only, conserve a shovel of the altar with the Madonna of the Rosary with Saint Domenico and Santa Caterina from Siena, and the saints Vincenzo Ferreri, Oliva, Ninfa Agata, Cristina and Rosalia, of Anton Van Dyck, commissioned in occasion of the plague that had hit the city of Palermo in 1624 and in 1628 and a painting of Luca Giordano. With the objective to exalt the theological meaning of burlaps, was commissioned around the 1714-1717 to Giacomo Serpotta realization to of over the same ones and within ovals with putty and high relief, episodes of the Apocalypse (between which it detaches the plasticity of the body of the devil that falls after to be hunted from the Paradise).

ORATORY OF SAINT LORENZO: it is situated in the city of Palermo where many oratories are found still that the end of the 1600's and the successive century rose between. In 1609, shortly before to die, Michelangelo Merisi from Caravaggio the Natività with the saints painted the shovel of representing altar Francisco and Lorenzo, that it was stolen in the night between the 18 and 19 October of 1969. Of 1699 it is the splendid decoration to putties of Giacomo Serpotta, with the statues representing the Virtues, and the eight reliefs on the walls that tell history of the two saints. It putties show in all the overflowing inventive wealth of the Serpotta, perhaps, has caught up in these realizations the higher point of its art.

ORATORY OF CATERINA D'ALEXANDRIA: L' Oratory was constructed in the quarter dell' Olivella (thus called from a tree of olive tree from the miraculous properties), where the house of S. Rosalia rose. The palermitanian Senate, quickly after the dead rest of S. Rosalia and for the many miracles that She made, to memory of its birth and its house, it made to erect a church, therefore from is made to go back around the Oratory of Saint Caterina d'Alexandria.

ORATORY OF SAINT FILIPPO NERI: Contiguous to the church of Sant' Ignazio all' Olivella, was built up in 1769 on plan of Giuseppe Marvuglia, than you profuse notes of classic sobriety and severity, late baroque architecture.

ORATORY OF SAINT STEFANO PROTOMARTIRE: The Oratory was built in the 15th century for wanting of the Company of Saint Stefano. In the 17th it came restored and decorated with it putties realized from Giovan Serpotta Maria and with paintings representatives scenes of the life of the Saint. The Oratory is deconsacrated and the art works that contained now is conserved in the Diocesano Museum.

ORATORY OF THE WHITE MEN: The oratory of the “Nobleman, Primary and Real Company of the SS. Crocifisso” this was its original name, saying of the white men for the color of the ceremonial dresses that had the scope to morally relieve and prepare for the execution to death of the condemned. Within the oratory it is possible to admire the wooden door (Bab el Fotik) of the Kalsa from which, in 1071, the Guiscardo Roberto during the taken of Palermo from the Norman reign; in order to celebrate the victory the king made to conserve the renamed door “Door of the Victoria” and it made you to paint over a paint of the Madonna of the Victoria.

ORATORY OF THE CARMINELLO: The oratory of the Carminello was built up at the end of the 15th with some aristocratic financings and have been for centuries an oratory of the carmelitani, than they gathered for the prays. Till a century makes came used after cemetery, as it can be noticed from crypt below, to exclusive use of the Brotherhood.

ORATORY OF SAINT GIUSEPPE DEI CARPENTIERI: The Oratory of Saint Giuseppe dei Carpentieri in Palermo, initially was managed from two congregations: that of Gesù, Giuseppe and Maria, and that of the Servants of the Santissimo Sacramento and the Immacolata Concezione that originally gave to the title to it of Elevation of the Forty Hours. In 1805 but it was assigned to the Brotherhood of San Giuseppe dei Carpentieri (founded in 1499 and become later a real company), than it gave the name to that door still nowadays. The Oratory of the Carpentieri is rendered more detailed from the going back wooden furnishings to the 17th-18th century and still now visible to its inside.

ORATORY OF SAINT MERCURIO: Only recently, thanks to along participation of restoration cured from the Super visioning to the Cultural Assets and Acclimatize of Palermo - begun in the July of 2000 and lasted than two years more of a precious one and almost disowned document of the Sicilian floor history, for a long time hidden as in conservation bad one be, quite unreadable and lacunose in more parts and others. Draft of the maiolicato pavement of the Oratory of Saint Mercurio, whose main income is found in the courtyard of Saint Giovanni of the Hermits.

THEATRES:

THE MASSIMO THEATRE: The Massimo Theatre Vittorio Emanuele of Palermo is the greatest theatre in Italy and one of the greatest lyric theatres of Europe (the third party for dimensions after the Opéra National of Paris and Staatsoper of Vienna) and is famous in the world for the perfect acoustics with and the principal room made to a horseshoe form really efficient.

BIONDO THEATRE: Built in 1903 it is the most recent of the historical theatres of Palermo. Still used a lot, is one of the best places of meeting in Palermo. The facade of the theatre has an outline nineteenth-century classic.

POLITEAMA THEATRE: The Theatre Garibaldi or Politeama (with the Politeama word agrees a theatre where kind is given to representations of miscellaneous shows, from here the usual error to call it Politeama Theatre, as to say a multitopic Theatre) In front of it there’s Ruggero settimo sqare commonly called Politeama sqare in center of Palermo.This architectonic masterpiece gives synergy of balances from baroque really similar to the “arc de trionfe” in Paris with bronze spinning horses to the building access.

MUSEUMS:

CATACOMBE DEI CAPPUCCINI: This ancient catacombs keep more than 8000 skeletons and bodies mummified, buried between 1599 and 1880 under the Church of the Cappuccini. The process of natural mummification was discovered from the Cappuccini fathers during the raising of some remains in 16th century.

GALLERIA D’ARRTE SANT’ANNA: The gallery is located right the historical centre, the complex is formed by two buildings jinxed in historical age, the two buildings are: the former Franciscan convent of the church of Sant'Anna,I n Baroque style, and the contiguous Bonet Palace. Artists like the Sicilian Giuseppe Patania and Salvatore Lo Forte are exposed to important works of the paesaggisti:

FOUNDATION OF BANCO DI SICILIA - MORMINO: Refined to neoclassic taste, Zito Villa, built it in the 18thcentury, conserve the collections of the Mormino Foundation that they comprise go some prehistoric finds coming from necropolis and Greek ceramics, a collection of Italian maioliche (15th-16thcentury.) and of Spanish, Arabic and Chinese exemplary, and a collection of coins and paintings from ‘800. A field is dedicated to the filatelia with going back press to the Reign of the Two Sicily’s , ancient stamps and plants of Palermo city from '600 to ‘800.

REGIONAL GALLERY OF THE SICILY - PALACE ABATELLIS: The gallery has center near the quattrocentesco Abatellis Palace (gothic-Catalan and rinascimental style), work the architect Carnalivari. Seriously damaged during the last world-wide conflict, the palace has been object of an important restoration and Musial preparation to work of the architect Carlo Scarpa. There are collections artworks from 11th to 18thcentury. To signal the wooden carvings of Arabic art, the ceramics Hispanic-Moresque of the 13th-16th century, the wooden and marmoreal fragments, the bust of Eleonora d' Aragona, masterpiece of Francisco Laurana, the sculptures (above all of the Gagini), frescoes such as (the Triumph of the Dead women, coming from the Sclafani Palace and realized around the half of the 4th century), and the paintings of Antonello Da Messina (small table as the Annunciazione), Palm the Young person, Veneziano and Giovanni di Nicola. Several also the school of Flemish art, between which the trittico of Malvagna is marked, operate from Jan Gossaert (1510).

REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM A. SALINAS: The museum illustrates the various making of the art and the Civilization of the western Sicily, from the prehistoric age to the late roman age and reflects the history of the seven-nineteenth-century Collecting through the important exposure collections and finds, in some cases not from Sicilian origins.

MUSEUM OF THE CUSTOM R. PIRAINO: The collection of Raffaello Piraino, represents the initial core them of the museum and comprises approximately 860 complete dresses and as many pieces between corpini, douillettes, paletots and manteaux. Moreover popular dresses, civil and military uniforms, dresses for children, dresses for wedding, for mourning, etc datable from 1700 to 1950 and the coming ones in maximum part from several Sicilian families.

MUSEUM OF THE TOY: The museum, placed in a nobiliar palace of the ' 700, conserve a collection that re-unites approximately 600 toys that cover an arc of time of approximately three centuries. Between the furnishings, rigorously d' age, showcases and display windows ricolme of various dolls of fogge and materials are found to you: dolls in china (from 1850 to 1920), dolls in wax, cartapesta, celluloid, automatons from 1700 to 1900. Moreover, houses of dolls with furnitures and accessories, horses to I swing, pedal automobiles and, at last, animals in material or skin. A section is dedicated to the art of the ceroplastic with 50 artworks of Sicilian and Neapolitan production.

MUSEUM OF RENAISSANCE V. EMANUELE. ORLANDO: The center of the museum is a field of former convent of Saint Domenico, building of 14th the right in the center historical century of the city. The exposure draft relative topics to the Italian junction and to the shipment of Garibaldi in Sicily.

MUSEUM OF THE ZISA: The museum is placed inside of a splendid castle Arab-Norman, going back construction to 1165 for wanting of Guglielmo the II and preserves testimonies of the Arabic world in Sicily: ceramics from 11th and 13thcentury, goes of brass chopped herbs of the 13th-15th century, Egyptian woods of Ottoman age, marbles and registrations. Remarkable elegant wooden grate windscreens compounds from hundred of spools embedded between the form, like laces, designs and ornamental reason.

MINERALOGY MUSEUM: Mineral champions are collected coming from the territory and in particular pertaining to the Sicilian chalky-sulfer series.

MUSEUM OF PALACE MIRTO: Draft of the palace by the family Lanza Filangieri built up in late the seven hundred on pre-existed itself sixteenth century structures. It knows them, rich furnished, contain remarkable collections of applied art: chinas, maioliche, clocks, fans, glasses, ivories and pupi for Presepio. Some detail of great esteem the furniture and the chinas.

ZOOLOGY MUSEUM: The museum, been born in the second half dell' 800 are accommodated in a mansion liberty, the inside of the Department, collects vertebrates collections of and invertebrate earthlings and marine, an ornithological collection, above all of Mediterranean and European area, with detail reference to the Sicily. A collection of approximately 700 embalmed fishes registered.

MUSEUM DIOCESANO: The Museum has reopened to the public the 22 of December 2003, introducing the works exposed with a new graphic museum preparation and in a restored atmospheres. The exposure proposes, in chronological order, a panorama of the artistic production of the city that comprises also the works of decorative art and the church furnishings, presents in considerable way in the Museum.

MUSEUM ETNOGRAFICO G. PITRÈ: The museum, currently in restructuration is partially accessible. Founded in the 1909 by the ethnologic Giuseppe Pitrè, conserve a rich ethnography collection of the Sicily. Subdivided in several sections, furnishings of the house are found to you peasant, manufactures and handicraft instruments, objects of the daily life, testimonies of practical religious and the magical one, customs, instruments musical and Sicilian carts. Interesting the section dedicated to datable paintings on glass at the end of 18th century and one manger of the ' 700 composed give approximately 600 little figures.

GEOLOGIC MUSEUM G.G. GEMMELLARO: The museum, carries out didactic activity above all, collects approximately 600.000 finds ordered for collections from the Palaeozoic to the quaternary: invertebrates and rests of mammals, crystal champions of the mezzanine period, collections of marbles and cliffs. Of relief a skeleton of adult woman of the advanced Palaeolithic (Thea) and a chalk crystal with brand d' water of the Mediterranean Mar of 5 million years ago, only copy to the world.

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MARIONETTES TO. PASQUALINO: The coming building, in which collections of pupi siciliani are concentrated, burattini and marionettes from all the world. different shows cultures and traditions are held, but this that renders this place of the imagination fascinating is the collection of approximately 3500 marionettes to threads, to stick and glove beyond, naturally, to the pupi from Palermo Catania and Naples.

TREASURE OF THE CATHEDRAL: The Treasure of the Cathedral comprises sacred, reliquaries vestments of the 14th–15th century, jewels and silverwares, decrease and other sacred objects to us. Of relief the tiara of Costanza d' Aragona, precious mother of Federico II, coming funerary from the tombs with the monarchs.

STADIO RENZO BARBERA: The communal stage Renzo Barbera, also famous with the old name de the Favorite, is the greatest sport system than Palermo can offer. Inaugurated in the 1932 and subordinate to various restructures, most recent of which in 2006, it is from always l' system of the inner encounter of the soccer team of Palermo.

VILLAS AND PUBLIC GARDEN:

BOTANICAL GARDEN: Its origin laughed them to 1779, year in which the Regi’s Academy instituting the chair of " Botany and Matter medic". This first Garden very soon was revealed insufficient to the necessities and in the 1786 decided to transfer it in that which she is the centre they puts into effect, near the Plan of Sant' Erasmo.

ENGLISH GARDEN: The garden came planned from Giovan Battista Filippo Basile in 1851. Inside we find numerous sculptures scattered for the garden between which that of Benedict representing Civiletti the " Canaris allo Scio". Within of it can also admire a little temple planned from Ernesto Basile inspiring itself from the Norman-Arab architecture and a greenhouse in E glass wrought iron in nineteenth-century style.

VILLA GIULIA: Magnificent garden realized in the 1777-78 under the Governor Marcantonio Colonna di Stigliano, for initiative of the Praetor La Grua. Taken its name from Julia d' Avalos wife of the aforesaid Governor. The prospecting monumental income the Italian Hole is neoclassic, the Doric columns testifies the already romantic taste of the end of 18thcentury well.

VILLA Of ORLEANS: The park came built up to goal the 1800's like reservoir of the adjacent Villa d' Orleans who currently is the centre of the presidency of the region. It came still now transformed in ornithological park and conserve much species coming animals from all the world.

MONUMENTS:

FOUR CORNERS: The Four Corners, or Vigliena public square, or Octagon of the Sun, or Theatre of the Sun [1], is the name of an octagonal public square all' crossing between the two main viari aces of Palermo: the way Maqueda, to half of its length, and the Cassaro (the way, of fenicia origin, that it connects l' acropoli, with the Palace of the Normanni to the sea, today famous as Run Vittorio Emanuele it is the most ancient road than Palermo),

ROYAL PALACE: The Royal Palace of Palermo, today known as Norman palace is the centre of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. First of all slowly rises the Nail head Tippet. It is one of visited monuments more nell' island. The real Norma palace rises in the more ancient nucleus of the city, in the same site of the first Punic takeovers, whose traces are still today visible in the basements.

ZISA: The palace of the Zisa (from the Arab al-Azīza, that is " the splendid") it rose walls outside of the city of Palermo, inside of the royal Norman park, the Genoardo (from the Jannat Arab al-arḍ that is " garden of earth paradise"),

CUBA: Cuba is the last monument created from the Norman in Palermo. It is, with the Zisa, the building that more it represents the Fatimid architecture, that is Arabic, in Sicily. On the origins of the name much uncertainty reigns: more probable hypothesis is that Cuba means " squared house". The building was constructed from Guglielmo II in 1180: for the construction, the king taken advantage of Arabic architects. Next to the Royal palace, the place in which rose Cuba was a great called park Genoardo, that is “paradise in earth”, because rich of magnificent waters and garden.

CATACOMBE DEI CAPPUCCINI: The Convent is known all over the world for the presence in its basements of an immense cemetery, that attracts the curiosity of numerous tourists, and since the slid centuries obliged stage of the Grand Tour (visited also from Guy de Maupassant). The show macabre of so many exposed corpses, is reflection cue on the lapsing of the life, the vanity terrene, and the uselessness and attachment of the men to their outer forms. The galleries were dug at the end of the ' 500 and form a wide cemetery made in a rectangular form. Never they have not been inventoried the there present remains, but it has been estimated that they must catch up the figure of approximately 8.000. The mummies, in feet or laid, dressed of all point, are uniforms for sex and social category.

FONTANA PRETORIA: Pretoria Fontana is constituted from three concentric bathtubs from which takes start the game of water that comes poured from the little one puttino to the centre. Fontana rotates around to a river basin centres encircled them from four bridges of perrons and a fencing of balustrades.

PALAZZO DELL AQUILE: Between the 16th century idea of the Fountain-garden, the baroque artery of via Maqueda and the medieval plan of S.Cataldo, the palace is grafted with nineteenth-century its faces in the more evocative and representative city of the cities.

ALBERGO DELLE POVERE: The Real Albergo delle povere was founded in 1733, under the reign of Carl III of Bourbon, in order to receive poor unskilful, crippled, young wandering and orphaned. The plan is from architect Orazio Ferret, but the yard then was followed till the term of the intense activities from architects Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia and Nicolò Di Puglia.

PALACE ASMUNDO: the Building laughed them to the 161. Multiple they are the artistic testimonies that make of this Palace one of beautifully of Baroque Palermo

PALACE CHIARAMONTE STERI: The history of the palace is the history of Palermo, its architecture has made school (chiaramontano style) and in order to say of only one has been centre of the inquisition court : in the before public square where today it is implanted the Garibaldi Villa came executed, beheaded, burnt the condemned to death from the court in front of the people! Conserve the famous burlap of Guttuso " Vucciria".

MONUMENTAL COMPLEX DELLO SPASIMO: The Complex is composed from various architectonic elements pertaining to different is made historical. In the first part of the 1500's was begun from the Mount Benedictines Olive grove the edification of the church, for which Raffaello realized entitled work the Spasimo of Sicily, than but does not find more to its inside.

PORTA NUOVA: The New, adjacent Door to the Norman Palace, has been for centuries the more important approached Palermo via earth. From it the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, or Cassaro, the main city artery leave, and, from outside, the road towards Monreale.

PORTA FELICE: The door is the income from the side sea to the Cassaro, one of the main aces of the city of Palermo. It takes the name from Happy Woman Orsini, wife of the Spanish Governor Marcantonio Column, than, in 1582, it is decided of giving a monumental income to the Cassaro (they puts into effect Corso Vittorio Emanuele), extended till the sea in 1581.

PORTA SANT'AGATA: The door is born in Norman period and the name derives from near Church of Sant' Agata il Calcio. The door quickly has a recent restoration in 1983 that it has rendered also thanks better visible the increase of the before public square. one of the most ancient testimonies of the town-walls medieval building.

PORTA DEI GRECI: The door comes built up in 14thcentury during the taken of the Church of Saint Nicolò of the Greeks but soon it comes destroyed and rebuilt in 1553 inspiring itself to the architectonic style of the Door of castrate.

PALACE COMITINI: or Palace Gravina di Comitini is an historical palace of Palermo. The building came built up between 1766 and 1781 on will of Prince of Comitini and show oneself on via Maqueda, the style have been attributed to the architect Nicolò Palma.

BORBONIC ARSENAL: The Arsenal has been erected in 1621-30 on plan of palermitan architect Mariano Smiriglio who also in others its works has interpreted the Italian manierismo. The building occupies a rectangular space. Flat to earth is six arched that they continued to rear entrance hall today not more place setting. The arched ones, currently tom agnate, accommodated the hulls under construction that on slides they came then launched.

CASTELLO A MARE: It came built up in Norman age or quite Arabic and in the course of the centuries it came repeatedly restored and widened. In 16thcentury it assumed the function of residence of the Spanish Governor in order to become centre of the Inquisition Court (last then to the Chiaramonte Palace).

STREETS GOOD FOR SHOPPING:

HISTORICAL MARKETS:

THE VUCCIRIA: it is a famous historical market of Palermo, with to others called Ballarò, the Capo, Market of the Pulci. It is extended between via Roma, the Cove, the Cassaro, along the via Cassaro, the public square of the Garraffello, the way new Argentieri, the Caracciolo public square and the way Maccheronai, inside of the Castellammare district.

THE CAPO: It is very animated as an alimentary market; the colors, the animation of the stalls characterizes the vivacity of it every day rendering it active, giving the possibility to acquire all typical alimentary kinds of merchandises.

BALLARO': Ballarò is the most ancient between the markets of the city, daily attended from hundred of persons of all kinds, animated from the so-called abbanniate that is the rowdy callbacks of the vendors who, with their characteristic and coloured local accent, try to attract the interest of passing.

MARKET DELLE PULCI: Organized with shacks in sheet, it is a permanent extension the Italian antique dealing and in particular of that Sicilian. It is found near of the Cathedral of Palermo, beside the Public square of the Papireto, call thus for that formed own in the vicinities, where met the rivers that furrowed the old city, the Kemonia and the Papireto. In the market objects can be found ancient, old furniture and several curiosities, between which more and more frequent objects of years sixty and seventy. The shops are opened the week days till the sunset and the festive days till the 13.

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