- Palazzo dei Normanni
The Palazzo dei Normanni is a palace in
Palermo ,Italy . It was the seat of theKings of Sicily .It was started in the
9th century by theEmir of Palermo and extended in the12th century by Roger II and other Norman kings.The palace contains the
Cappella Palatina , by far the best example of the so-calledArab-Norman -Byzantine style that prevailed in the 12th-century Sicily. The wonderfulmosaics , the wooden roof, elaborately fretted and painted, and the marble incrustation of the lower part of the walls and the floor are very fine. Of the palace itself the greater part was rebuilt and added in Spanish times, but there are some other parts of Roger's work left, specially the hall called Sala Normanna. Since 1946 the palace has housed the Sicilian Regional Assembly.ee also
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Cathedral of Monreale
*Cathedral of Cefalù References
*1911
External links
* [http://www.ou.edu/class/ahi4263/byzhtml/p07-01.html Illustrations of the Cappella Palatina]
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