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