View from Palermo, Sicily: Palermo is like nowhere else, next to Africa but in Europe, combining traces of great historic riches with extraordinary squalor only gradually being alleviated.(View)(European Union)

From: The Architectural Review | Date: September 1, 2003 | Copyright information

Palermo is immensely old. Founded by the Phoenicians in the seventh century BC, it was seized by the Romans as their empire expanded. They were succeeded by the Byzantines who got it back after an Ostrogothic interlude. By conquest, papal and imperial intrigue or marriage it passed to Saracens who came from what is now Tunisia, then Normans, Holy Roman Emperor Hohenstaufens, Angevin French, Aragonese and the Spanish Bourbons. After them came the government of an Italy united under the northern Savoyards and, less than a century later, the bomb-heralded arrival of the Allies in ...

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