20/02/2017
ROYAL PALACE OR PALACE OF THE NORMANS
The Palace (11th-12th century) stands regally, yet austerely, against a blue Sicilian sky on a pre-existing Punic, Roman, Byzantine, then Islamic site. A unique combination of Islamic and Romanesque architecture, due to the interaction and coexistence of its various cultural components. King Roger II commissioned the building of four towers around which the castle was […]