Gardens and architecture as a backdrop to the city of Palermo
Porphyry sarcophagi: royalty and power
The Gualtiero Cathedral
The side aisles
The decorations on the bell tower
The Bible carved in stone
The senses tell the historical context
Worship services
The dialogue between the architectures of the monumental complex
The return of water
Roger II of hauteville: a sovereign protected by God
The balance between architecture and light
Palermo: the happiest city
The senses tell the architecture and decorations
The Cefalù cathedral: a construction yard undergoing a change between a surge of faith and control over the territory
the Baroque interior
The senses tell the mosaic cycle
The Admiral’s dedication
The transformations of the hall through the centuries
The senses tell the interior
Saint Peter’s Chapel in the Royal Palace
The Great Restoration
The original design
The liturgical spaces of the protesis and the diaconicon
A tree full of life
The lost chapel
Artistic elements in Peter’s ship
The Genoard Park, the garden of pleasures and wonders
The marble portal: an intimate dialogue between complex ornamental aspects and formal structure
The Kings’ Cathedrals
A remarkable ceiling
The loca solatiorum: dwellings for recreation, well-being and hunting
The architectural envelope: the Greek cross layout oriented towards the light
The Great Presbytery: a unique space for the cathedral
The senses tell the architecture
From the main gate to the aisles: an invitation to a journey of faith
The senses tell restorations
The links between the hauteville family and the monastic orders in Sicily
The Chapel of the Kings
The chapel of St. Benedict
Survey of the royal tombs
Roger II’s strategic design
The birth of the Norman kingdom
The senses tell the external architecture and the original layout
The Virgin Hodegetria
The senses tell the Zisa over the centuries
The mosaics of the naves
A Northern population
The chapel of san Castrense: an important renaissance work
The medieval city amidst monasticism and feudal aristocracy
Shapes and colours of the wooden ceiling
The king’s mark
Decorations
The decorated facade
An architectural crescendo
The beautiful Zisa and its garden: solacium regi among sounds, colours and scents
Squaring the circle
The senses tell Context 1
The paradisiacal “Conca d’oro” that embraces Palermo: a name with countless faces through time
The Palace of Kings
Two initially similar towers, varied over time
From the Mosque to the Cathedral
A space between the visible and the invisible
Thirteenth-century iconography decorates the nave’s wooden ceiling, designed with new solutions
The Royal Throne
A cloister of accentuated stylistic variety
Transformations over the centuries
Tempus fugit: a strategic project implemented in a short period of time
From earthquake to collapse
Ecclesia munita
A chapel by an unknown designer based on repeated symmetries
A building constructed in a short space of time
The flooring: shapes, motifs and iconography
Norman religious architecture with islamic influences in Sicily
A new Cathedral
From oblivion to the recovery of memory
Mosaic decoration
The chapel of the crucifix: an artistic casket based on a previous model
A mixture of styles pervades the floor decorations
Layers of different cultures decorate the external apses
The opus sectile floor of the Palatine Chapel
The interior of the church
Under the crosses of the Bema
Gold and light: the splendour of the mosaics in the Royal Chapel
The mosaics of the transept and the apses
Different styles and transformations of “one of the most beautiful monuments in the world”
The towers facing the facade used as bell towers
The chystro: a place between earth and sky
the roof of Paradise: one of the most representative works of medieval art
The senses tell the ceiling
The southern portico
The architectural space
The longest aisle
The Cathedral over the centuries
The senses tell the historical context
The mosaics of the presbytery
Interior decorations
The architectural appearance and transformations over time
The columns of the nave: the meticulous study of the overall order
A palimpsest of history
The stone bible
Beyond the harmony of proportions
The architectural modifications ti the cathedral building after the death of Roger II and the transformations of the cloister
The construction of Monreale Cathedral: between myth and history
The area of the Sanctuary
The towers and the western facade
The senses tell baroque decoration
A compositional design that combines nordic examples with new artistic languages, over the centuries
The beginning of the construction site
The cultural substrate through time
The Norman conquest of Sicily and the birth of a new Latin kingdom
The Cassaro
Biblical themes enlivened by the dazzling light of the stained – glass windows overlooking the naves
the Baroque exterior
The mosaic cycle, an ascending path towards the light
The cemetery of kings
The plasticism of the main portico and Bonanno Pisano’s Monumental Bronze Door
The chorus: beating heart of the cathedral
The rediscovered chapel
Intertwining of knowledge in Norman Palermo
Restorations
The senses tell the flooring
Criteria for the inclusion of Palermo Arab-Norman and the Cefalù and Monreale Cathedrals in the WHL
The mosaics of the apses
The rediscovered palace
Characteristics of religious architecture in the romanesque period
Cefalù: settlement evidence through time
The Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene
The side Portico: a combination of elegance and lightness of form
A controversial interpretation
The ancient convent of the Martorana, a history of devotion and tradition
A polysemy of high-level artistic forms and content
The senses tell the historical context
MiC – Ministero della Cultura
Legge 77/2006 - Misure Speciali di Tutela e Fruizione dei Siti Italiani di Interesse Culturale, Paesaggistico e Ambientale, inseriti nella “Lista Del Patrimonio Mondiale”, posti sotto la Tutela dell’ UNESCO Regione Siciliana.
Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana.
Parco archeologico della Valle dei Templi di Agrigento.
