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Palermo ::.
Monreale

This town overlooks the "Conca d'Oro," the beautiful valley beyond Palermo and is world-renowned for its Duomo, cathedral - S.Maria la Nuova, a unique mixture of Arab, Byzantine and Norman artistic styles framed by traditional Romanesque architecture.

The beautiful, sumptous gold mosaics in the cathedral take 6,340 sqm of the interior surface, covering it almost entirely.

The masterpiece is the Christ Pantocrator located on the central apse over the main altar.

The entire image is 13 meters across and seven meters high.

The splendid cloister of the Benedictine abbey beside the Duomo also is world famous.

A masterpiece of Norman art with 228 columns, some with mosaic inlay, each with a meticulously stone carved capital they enclose the gardens of the abbey.

Palermo
::. Surroundings

• Cefalù
• Monreale
• Mondello
• Bagheria
• Monte Pellegrino
• Ustica
• Castelbuono