Palermo Cathedral
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About Palermo Cathedral
Italy
Palermo Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo, located in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. As an architectural complex, it is characterised by different styles, due to a long history of additions, alterations and restorations, the last of which occurred in the 18th century. It was built in 1184 by the Normans as a converted Christian church on the site of a Muslim Mosque that was constructed previously over a Christian basilica. A notable feature is its meridian (solar “observatory”), one of a number constructed in Italian churches, mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site ‘Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale’ comprising a series of nine civil and religious structures dating from the era of the Norman kingdom of Sicily (1130-1194) that exemplify a social-cultural syncretism between Western, Islamic and Byzantine cultures that bears witness to the coexistence of people of different origins (Muslim, Byzantine, Latin, Jewish, Lombard, and French).
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