We spent four whole days in Palermo, the capital of Sicily. It contains at least two wonderful markets and many old narrow streets which are fun to walk around in.
1 Fontana Pretoria, designed 1552-5 by Francesco Camilliani
2 Chiesa Santa Caterina, in the Piazza Bellini
3 Santa Caterina, interior
4 Santa Caterina
5 Santa Caterina
6 Santa Caterina
7 Chiesa La Martorana (Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio), in Piazza Bellini
8 La Martorana, interior
9 La Martorana
10 Chiesa San Cataldo, 12th c., in Arab-Norman style, also in Piazza Bellni
11 San Cataldo's interior is much simpler than Santa Catarina's; one might even prefer it to the former.
12 Beauriful San Cataldo
13 Wonderful play of arches in San Cataldo
14 Political demonstration in the Via Vittorio Emanuele
15 Demonstrator
16 Via Roma, intersection with Via Vittorio Emanuele
17 Via Vittorio Emanuele, looking north toward the sea
18 Balconies
19 A narrow street off the Via Vittorio Emanuele
20 Another narrow street
21 Garibaldi's statue in the Giardino Garibaldi, in the PIazza Marina
22 Jacaranda in the Giardino Garibaldi
23 Huge ficus magnolioides, Morton Bay Fig, a kind of banyan, in the Giardino Garibaldi
24 Kids playing in the banyan
25 Colorful houses across from the Giardino Garibaldi
26 Shiny clean paving stones
27 Balcony in one of the narrow lanes of Palermo
28 Chiesa San Francesco
29 Antica Focacceria San Francesco
30 Trompe l'oeil
31 More balconies
32 Quattro Canti, at the intersection of Via Marqueda and Via Vittorio Emanuele
33 Back at Quattro Canti, looking down the Via Vittorio Emanuele
34 Old building near Mercato Ballaro
35 Mercato Ballaro
36 Mercato Ballaro
37 Fish monger in Mercato Ballaro
38 Fish restaurant in Mercato Ballaro
39 Chiesa del Carmine
40 Oleander everywhere
41 Palazzo dei Normanni, waiting to get into the Capella Palatina
42 Capella Palatina, interior mosaics
43 St Pancratus, in the Capella Palatina
44 Capella Palatina
45 Capella Palatina (with the white balance set differently)
46 Capella Palatina
47 Duomo
48 Duomo, west end
49 Duomo, east end
50 San Giovanni degli Eremiti, from the outside
51 San Giovanni degli Eremiti, interior, 12th c.
52 San Giovanni dei Eremiti, frescos
53 Garden of San Giovanni dei Eremiti
54 San Giovanni degli Eremiti cloister and wall of the Palazzo dei Normanni
55 San Giovanni degli Eremiti, cloister
56 San Giovanni degli Eremiti, cloister
57 San Giovanni degli Eremiti, cloister
58 San Giovanni degli Eremiti, cloister
59 Back out in the street
60 Buttresses of the Palazzo dei Normanni
61 Palermo sits between the mountains and the sea.
62 Villa Bonanno
63 Palazzo dei Normanni
64 Galleria Regionalae di Sicilia in the Palazzo Abatellis: Triumph of death, fresco
65 Galleria Regionalae di Sicilia in the Palazzo Abatellis: Francesco Laurana, bust perhaps of Eleonore d'Aragon
66 Galleria Regionalae di Sicilia in the Palazzo Abatellis
67 Galleria Regionalae di Sicilia in the Palazzo Abatellis: Antonio da Messina, Annunciation
