photo gallery

photo gallery

The loca solatiorum: dwellings for recreation, well-being and hunting

Worship services

The senses tell baroque decoration

The Royal Throne

The senses tell the flooring

The area of the Sanctuary

The beautiful Zisa and its garden: solacium regi among sounds, colours and scents

Biblical themes enlivened by the dazzling light of the stained – glass windows overlooking the naves

An architectural crescendo

The decorations on the bell tower

The architectural space

The Great Restoration

Norman religious architecture with islamic influences in Sicily

The architectural modifications ti the cathedral building after the death of Roger II and the transformations of the cloister

The columns of the nave: the meticulous study of the overall order

The return of water

A space between the visible and the invisible

The towers and the western facade

A remarkable ceiling

Tempus fugit: a strategic project implemented in a short period of time

The king’s mark

The architectural envelope: the Greek cross layout oriented towards the light

Survey of the royal tombs

The side Portico: a combination of elegance and lightness of form

Gold and light: the splendour of the mosaics in the Royal Chapel

The senses tell the ceiling

A controversial interpretation

A cloister of accentuated stylistic variety

Different styles and transformations of “one of the most beautiful monuments in the world”

the Baroque exterior

A building constructed in a short space of time

Palermo: the happiest city

The rediscovered palace

The Palace of Kings

The chystro: a place between earth and sky

The balance between architecture and light

The stone bible

The mosaics of the presbytery

The dialogue between the architectures of the monumental complex

A polysemy of high-level artistic forms and content

The medieval city amidst monasticism and feudal aristocracy

Gardens and architecture as a backdrop to the city of Palermo

The chorus: beating heart of the cathedral

The flooring: shapes, motifs and iconography

Roger II’s strategic design

The Admiral’s dedication

The cultural substrate through time

The rediscovered chapel

The Kings’ Cathedrals

A tree full of life

The Norman conquest of Sicily and the birth of a new Latin kingdom

A new Cathedral

The mosaics of the naves

The mosaic cycle, an ascending path towards the light

Two initially similar towers, varied over time

The construction of Monreale Cathedral: between myth and history

The senses tell the historical context

the Baroque interior

The Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene

From earthquake to collapse

From the Mosque to the Cathedral

Beyond the harmony of proportions

The birth of the Norman kingdom

The chapel of the crucifix: an artistic casket based on a previous model

A compositional design that combines nordic examples with new artistic languages, over the centuries

A palimpsest of history

The Bible carved in stone

Shapes and colours of the wooden ceiling

Transformations over the centuries

The lost chapel

Interior decorations

The Gualtiero Cathedral

Porphyry sarcophagi: royalty and power

Mosaic decoration

Roger II of hauteville: a sovereign protected by God

Squaring the circle

The decorated facade

A mixture of styles pervades the floor decorations

Layers of different cultures decorate the external apses

The Great Presbytery: a unique space for the cathedral

The marble portal: an intimate dialogue between complex ornamental aspects and formal structure

The original design

The senses tell the external architecture and the original layout

The longest aisle

Decorations

A chapel by an unknown designer based on repeated symmetries

The senses tell the architecture and decorations

Artistic elements in Peter’s ship

The senses tell the historical context

Saint Peter’s Chapel in the Royal Palace

The ancient convent of the Martorana, a history of devotion and tradition

The Cathedral over the centuries

The plasticism of the main portico and Bonanno Pisano’s Monumental Bronze Door

The paradisiacal “Conca d’oro” that embraces Palermo: a name with countless faces through time

Restorations

The senses tell the historical context

The Cassaro

From the main gate to the aisles: an invitation to a journey of faith

the roof of Paradise: one of the most representative works of medieval art

The senses tell the interior

The southern portico

The chapel of St. Benedict

Intertwining of knowledge in Norman Palermo

The mosaics of the transept and the apses

The senses tell the architecture

Thirteenth-century iconography decorates the nave’s wooden ceiling, designed with new solutions

The transformations of the hall through the centuries

Criteria for the inclusion of Palermo Arab-Norman and the Cefalù and Monreale Cathedrals in the WHL

Cefalù: settlement evidence through time

Under the crosses of the Bema

The senses tell Context 1

The liturgical spaces of the protesis and the diaconicon

The cemetery of kings

From oblivion to the recovery of memory

The senses tell the mosaic cycle

The mosaics of the apses

The chapel of san Castrense: an important renaissance work

Ecclesia munita

The interior of the church

A Northern population

The links between the hauteville family and the monastic orders in Sicily

The architectural appearance and transformations over time

The Chapel of the Kings

The beginning of the construction site

Characteristics of religious architecture in the romanesque period

The Virgin Hodegetria

The towers facing the facade used as bell towers

The senses tell the Zisa over the centuries

The side aisles

The senses tell restorations

The Genoard Park, the garden of pleasures and wonders

The Cefalù cathedral: a construction yard undergoing a change between a surge of faith and control over the territory

The opus sectile floor of the Palatine Chapel