Palatine Chapel

Palatine Chapel

Palatine Chapel may refer to any chapel that serves a palace or to one of the following monuments specifically:

*Palatine Chapel in Aachen of the Aachen Cathedral - the central monument of Carolingian art
*Cappella Palatina of the Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo - the central monument of Arab-Norman-Byzantine art


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