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