Palazzo dei Normanni

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  • Address
    Palazzo Reale, Piazza Indipendenza 1, centro, 90134
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  • Phone
    091 705 70 03
  • Transport
    bus: city

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West along Corso Vittorio Emanuele, past the waving palms in Piazza della Vittoria, rises the fortress palace of Palazzo dei Normanni, once the centre of a magnificent medieval court and now the seat of the Sicilian parliament.

Guided tours (in Italian only; group visits must be prebooked by fax) take you through the Sicilian parliamentary assembly and to the sumptuous Sala di Ruggero II, the king's former bedroom, where some of the only secular mosaics of the day still decorate the walls with Persian peacocks and exotic leopards.