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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