photo gallery

photo gallery

The decorations on the bell tower

The Admiral’s dedication

Norman religious architecture with islamic influences in Sicily

The mosaics of the naves

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 birth of the Norman kingdom

The return of water

Mosaic decoration

The senses tell the interior

Decorations

A polysemy of high-level artistic forms and content

Cefalù: settlement evidence through time

Beyond the harmony of proportions

The senses tell the historical context

Layers of different cultures decorate the external apses

The Great Presbytery: a unique space for the cathedral

Squaring the circle

The flooring: shapes, motifs and iconography

A controversial interpretation

Interior decorations

The senses tell the historical context

The beautiful Zisa and its garden: solacium regi among sounds, colours and scents

The architectural space

Biblical themes enlivened by the dazzling light of the stained – glass windows overlooking the naves

Palermo: the happiest city

The senses tell Context 1

The towers facing the facade used as bell towers

Thirteenth-century iconography decorates the nave’s wooden ceiling, designed with new solutions

A building constructed in a short space of time

The loca solatiorum: dwellings for recreation, well-being and hunting

Gold and light: the splendour of the mosaics in the Royal Chapel

The balance between architecture and light

The senses tell the ceiling

Characteristics of religious architecture in the romanesque period

Two initially similar towers, varied over time

The senses tell the external architecture and the original layout

A compositional design that combines nordic examples with new artistic languages, over the centuries

The cemetery of kings

Survey of the royal tombs

Intertwining of knowledge in Norman Palermo

The senses tell the mosaic cycle

The Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene

The lost chapel

The transformations of the hall through the centuries

The medieval city amidst monasticism and feudal aristocracy

Saint Peter’s Chapel in the Royal Palace

The Genoard Park, the garden of pleasures and wonders

The ancient convent of the Martorana, a history of devotion and tradition

Roger II’s strategic design

Under the crosses of the Bema

The dialogue between the architectures of the monumental complex

The Bible carved in stone

The beginning of the construction site

The Great Restoration

The southern portico

The towers and the western facade

The rediscovered palace

the Baroque exterior

The Cassaro

The senses tell the historical context

The cultural substrate through time

The architectural modifications ti the cathedral building after the death of Roger II and the transformations of the cloister

From the Mosque to the Cathedral

The senses tell the architecture

The senses tell restorations

The columns of the nave: the meticulous study of the overall order

The longest aisle

Roger II of hauteville: a sovereign protected by God

Different styles and transformations of “one of the most beautiful monuments in the world”

The Kings’ Cathedrals

Shapes and colours of the wooden ceiling

Ecclesia munita

The mosaics of the presbytery

An architectural crescendo

The chystro: a place between earth and sky

The chapel of san Castrense: an important renaissance work

The Gualtiero Cathedral

The mosaic cycle, an ascending path towards the light

A new Cathedral

A chapel by an unknown designer based on repeated symmetries

The chapel of St. Benedict

The rediscovered chapel

A cloister of accentuated stylistic variety

The senses tell the architecture and decorations

From earthquake to collapse

Artistic elements in Peter’s ship

A palimpsest of history

Porphyry sarcophagi: royalty and power

Restorations

The king’s mark

The senses tell the Zisa over the centuries

Worship services

The senses tell baroque decoration

The chapel of the crucifix: an artistic casket based on a previous model

The Virgin Hodegetria

The senses tell the flooring

The architectural envelope: the Greek cross layout oriented towards the light

The marble portal: an intimate dialogue between complex ornamental aspects and formal structure

The Cathedral over the centuries

The mosaics of the transept and the apses

Tempus fugit: a strategic project implemented in a short period of time

The stone bible

The links between the hauteville family and the monastic orders in Sicily

The side Portico: a combination of elegance and lightness of form

Criteria for the inclusion of Palermo Arab-Norman and the Cefalù and Monreale Cathedrals in the WHL

The construction of Monreale Cathedral: between myth and history

The Royal Throne

From oblivion to the recovery of memory

The architectural appearance and transformations over time

The decorated facade

A remarkable ceiling

The side aisles

A Northern population

The liturgical spaces of the protesis and the diaconicon

Transformations over the centuries

The Palace of Kings

The original design

The area of the Sanctuary

From the main gate to the aisles: an invitation to a journey of faith

A tree full of life

The mosaics of the apses

the roof of Paradise: one of the most representative works of medieval art

The interior of the church

The Norman conquest of Sicily and the birth of a new Latin kingdom

The chorus: beating heart of the cathedral

The opus sectile floor of the Palatine Chapel

The Chapel of the Kings

A space between the visible and the invisible

The Cefalù cathedral: a construction yard undergoing a change between a surge of faith and control over the territory

the Baroque interior

A mixture of styles pervades the floor decorations

The plasticism of the main portico and Bonanno Pisano’s Monumental Bronze Door