Royal Palace of Palermo
Norman Grandeur and Royal History
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About Royal Palace of Palermo
Italy
The Palace was the seat of the Kings of Sicily with the Hauteville dynasty and served afterwards as the main seat of power for the subsequent rulers of Sicily. Since 1946, it has been the seat of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. The building is the oldest royal residence in Europe and was the private residence of the rulers of the Kingdom of Sicily and the imperial seat of Frederick II and Conrad IV. The palace contains the Cappella Palatina, the best example of the so-called Arab-Norman-Byzantine style that prevailed in 12th-century Sicily. The wonderful mosaics, the wooden roof, elaborately fretted and painted, and the marble incrustation of the lower part of the walls and the floor are very fine.
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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