From the main gate to the aisles: an invitation to a journey of faith
The Great Restoration
Shapes and colours of the wooden ceiling
The rediscovered chapel
The decorations on the bell tower
the roof of Paradise: one of the most representative works of medieval art
The rediscovered palace
Squaring the circle
The lost chapel
Roger II’s strategic design
Porphyry sarcophagi: royalty and power
Decorations
The senses tell the historical context
A new Cathedral
The chapel of san Castrense: an important renaissance work
Intertwining of knowledge in Norman Palermo
The mosaics of the presbytery
A chapel by an unknown designer based on repeated symmetries
The senses tell the interior
The opus sectile floor of the Palatine Chapel
Restorations
The mosaics of the apses
Saint Peter’s Chapel in the Royal Palace
The Great Presbytery: a unique space for the cathedral
The columns of the nave: the meticulous study of the overall order
The mosaics of the transept and the apses
The birth of the Norman kingdom
The towers facing the facade used as bell towers
Interior decorations
The Royal Throne
A polysemy of high-level artistic forms and content
The senses tell the historical context
The architectural space
The Virgin Hodegetria
The construction of Monreale Cathedral: between myth and history
The chystro: a place between earth and sky
Different styles and transformations of “one of the most beautiful monuments in the world”
Norman religious architecture with islamic influences in Sicily
Transformations over the centuries
The interior of the church
A palimpsest of history
The marble portal: an intimate dialogue between complex ornamental aspects and formal structure
The longest aisle
Mosaic decoration
The cultural substrate through time
Palermo: the happiest city
The ancient convent of the Martorana, a history of devotion and tradition
Artistic elements in Peter’s ship
The flooring: shapes, motifs and iconography
The decorated facade
Gardens and architecture as a backdrop to the city of Palermo
The senses tell the architecture
Layers of different cultures decorate the external apses
The Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene
The Cefalù cathedral: a construction yard undergoing a change between a surge of faith and control over the territory
Roger II of hauteville: a sovereign protected by God
the Baroque exterior
The plasticism of the main portico and Bonanno Pisano’s Monumental Bronze Door
The links between the hauteville family and the monastic orders in Sicily
Two initially similar towers, varied over time
The senses tell baroque decoration
The side Portico: a combination of elegance and lightness of form
The Cassaro
Cefalù: settlement evidence through time
Under the crosses of the Bema
Ecclesia munita
The original design
The stone bible
The Bible carved in stone
Beyond the harmony of proportions
The senses tell the ceiling
The paradisiacal “Conca d’oro” that embraces Palermo: a name with countless faces through time
An architectural crescendo
A cloister of accentuated stylistic variety
A mixture of styles pervades the floor decorations
Tempus fugit: a strategic project implemented in a short period of time
The area of the Sanctuary
The towers and the western facade
The loca solatiorum: dwellings for recreation, well-being and hunting
The chapel of St. Benedict
The architectural envelope: the Greek cross layout oriented towards the light
A tree full of life
The balance between architecture and light
The senses tell restorations
Survey of the royal tombs
The Cathedral over the centuries
The transformations of the hall through the centuries
The Kings’ Cathedrals
The chapel of the crucifix: an artistic casket based on a previous model
The liturgical spaces of the protesis and the diaconicon
The mosaic cycle, an ascending path towards the light
The chorus: beating heart of the cathedral
Criteria for the inclusion of Palermo Arab-Norman and the Cefalù and Monreale Cathedrals in the WHL
A Northern population
The Genoard Park, the garden of pleasures and wonders
The beginning of the construction site
Biblical themes enlivened by the dazzling light of the stained – glass windows overlooking the naves
The return of water
The mosaics of the naves
The Palace of Kings
Worship services
The architectural modifications ti the cathedral building after the death of Roger II and the transformations of the cloister
The senses tell the mosaic cycle
The senses tell Context 1
The senses tell the external architecture and the original layout
Gold and light: the splendour of the mosaics in the Royal Chapel
The senses tell the flooring
A compositional design that combines nordic examples with new artistic languages, over the centuries
From the Mosque to the Cathedral
The architectural appearance and transformations over time
The cemetery of kings
The senses tell the historical context
The senses tell the Zisa over the centuries
The dialogue between the architectures of the monumental complex
The Admiral’s dedication
A building constructed in a short space of time
The senses tell the architecture and decorations
From oblivion to the recovery of memory
A remarkable ceiling
the Baroque interior
The medieval city amidst monasticism and feudal aristocracy
The Chapel of the Kings
The beautiful Zisa and its garden: solacium regi among sounds, colours and scents
The southern portico
Characteristics of religious architecture in the romanesque period
The Gualtiero Cathedral
From earthquake to collapse
The side aisles
Thirteenth-century iconography decorates the nave’s wooden ceiling, designed with new solutions
A space between the visible and the invisible
The Norman conquest of Sicily and the birth of a new Latin kingdom
MiC – Ministero della Cultura
Legge 77/2006 - Misure Speciali di Tutela e Fruizione dei Siti Italiani di Interesse Culturale, Paesaggistico e Ambientale, inseriti nella “Lista Del Patrimonio Mondiale”, posti sotto la Tutela dell’ UNESCO Regione Siciliana.
Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana.
Parco archeologico della Valle dei Templi di Agrigento.
