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Church of San Cataldo
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Another must see in Palermo, a Norman church, next to the luxuriant church Martorana, this is smaller and very simple, because it does not contain mosaics (as it was unfinished) and it was the private chapel of a private palazzo. What is particularly valuable here is the floor. But the outside architecture is very beautiful and so typical of Palermo, with its pink, 'arabic' domes, also found in other Norman churches in Palermo and Sicily. They are due to the strong tardition of the arabic population, and in particular, their builders, overcome, but not underestimated when it came to building and other cultural fields, by the Normans.
Another must see in Palermo, a Norman church, next to the luxuriant church Martorana, this is smaller and very simple, because it does not contain mosaics (as it was unfinished) and it was the private chapel of a private palazzo. What is particularly valuable here is the floor. But the outside archi…
It is a notable example of the Arab-Norman architecture which flourished in Sicily under the Norman domination of the island.
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