Palermo
Palermo (Sicilia Region)
Palermo
• Capital of Sicilia
• Northwest Sicily
• Top tourist attraction
of Sicilia
• Largest port of the
Island
• Phoenician and Viking
history
• Industrial and
commercial center of
Sicilia
Palazzo dei
Normanni
•
•
Palace of the
Normans
Contains the
Capella Palatina
• 12th century
chapel w/
most
beautiful
mosaics in all
of Europe
• Most popular
site to visit
Cappella Palatina
Duomo di
Palermo
• Cattedrale
Metropolitana
della Santa
Vergine Maria
Assunta
(Metropolitan
Cathedral of the
Assumption of
Virgin Mary)
• Located in Corso
Vittorio
Emanuele
Teatro
Massimo
• Opened in 1897
• Biggest opera house
in Italy and the
largest in Europe
• Name means
“greatest theater”
Catacombe
dei Cappuccini
• Capuchin
Catacombs
• Originally intended
for dead friars
• Maintained
through the
donations of the
relatives of the
deceased in the
catacombs
• Pictures inside
supposedly
prohibited
Catacombe
continued
• One of the most
famous people
interred
• Died 1920 at 2
yrs old
• Body is almost
completely intact