I would like to start this blog with one of the most outstanding places I have ever been to: the Palatine Chapel (in Italian: Cappella Palatina). The church, which is also registered in the UNESCO World Heritage List, is part of the Palazzo Reale in Palermo and it has been commissioned by the Norman king…
Tag: history
Palermo, the city of a thousand faces.
Palermo is like an oyster: the sea on one side, the mountains on the other and a beautiful pearl just in the middle. There is some dirt and there is beauty, and its history goes back centuries in time. Very different people and cultures lived here during all over Palermo’s history: from Phoenicians , to Romans,…