During the most recent restoration work, further renovations were carried out on the building, with the creation of a ventilated perimeter cavity to prevent rising dampness from the contact soil, which had massively damaged the floor of the [approfondimenti id="48758" testo_link="Fountain Room"]. Pa...

The clearance of all these rooms made it possible to restore the building to its original layout, also recognising their original use in relation to their position. Once the restoration of the structural part of the building's exterior was completed, the other decorative parts of the building were r...

Studies began in 1972 and made it possible to carry out a precise survey of the entire building in order to assess its consistency and reliability in relation to the restoration techniques that had been proposed at the time. Construction began in the mid-1970s and, with a series of ups and downs, th...

The 1968 [approfondimenti id="48791" testo_link="Belice earthquake"] further compromised the building’s already precarious state of preservation, worsening its distress until 13 October 1971, the day of the resounding collapse of half the building's wing. The scandal was enormous and cultural mobi...

After having been a unitary residence, the Zisa Palace was used for fragmented housing throughout the period from the end of the 19th century to the early 1930s. Immediately after the end of the Second World War, due to its dilapidated condition, the building was abandoned and its slow decline began...

The fragmentary knowledge of the building could only be recovered thanks to diplomatic and notarial sources. Apart from the restoration of the mosaic above the fountain in 1511, the palace retained its structure until the first thirty years of the 17th century. It was only from 1635 onwards that the...

The theme of the Garden of Paradise lives on in the decorations of the [approfondimenti id="48765" testo_link="mosaic ornaments"], [caption id="attachment_44971" align="aligncenter" width="900"] The mosaic ornaments on the western side of the fountain room are an original example of secular mosai...

The palace was designed according to harmonious metrics, where the golden ratio is often found in its measurements. It has a parallelepiped shape and a compact, austere volume, lightened only by the rooms in the façade which are inserted in a rhythmic, discreet way. The ground floor is distinguish...

According to the testimony of [approfondimenti id="48724" testo_link="Ugo Falcando"], we can deduce that the palace of the Zisa was built in a short time and with a huge expenditure. These characteristics are not dissimilar to those of other imposing structures of the Norman period, since the wide a...

The Zisa palace, from the Arabic al-Azīz, which means the glorious or the splendid, is the most representative of the entire Genoard park. It was built, probably on Islamic pre-existing structures, at the behest of [approfondimenti id="48702" testo_link="William I"], known as the Bad, in 1165, a fe...