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Palermo Cathedral was built from 1185 under Archbishop Walter Ophamil on the site of an earlier basilica that had served as a mosque. Its exterior mixes Norman, Gothic and Catalan work, while the dome and the interior come from the remodelling of 1781–1801 led by Ferdinando Fuga. The royal tombs, crypt, treasury and roof are visited on a separate ticket.
Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is the opera house on Piazza Verdi, designed by Giovan Battista Filippo Basile and completed by his son Ernesto Basile; it opened in 1897. Covering about 7,700 square metres, it is the largest opera house in Italy. The theatre is open for guided visits, to which a visit backstage can be added.
The Martorana, or Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio, is a church on Piazza Bellini founded in 1143 by George of Antioch, admiral of King Roger II. Behind its Baroque front and Norman bell tower, the interior keeps 12th-century Byzantine mosaics. It is a co-cathedral of the Italo-Albanian Byzantine-rite Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi.
Palazzo Bonocore stands on Piazza Pretoria in Palermo, facing the Fontana Pretoria. Built in the late 16th century and given a neoclassical upper facade in the 19th, it takes its name from the banker Salvatore Bonocore, who bought it in 1875. Its frescoed piano nobile holds Palermo Felicissima, a multimedia exhibition on the city's Belle Époque.
Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri is a fortified Gothic palace on Piazza Marina, begun around 1307 for the Chiaramonte family. From 1604 to 1782 it was the seat of the Inquisition in Palermo, whose prison cells keep the graffiti of prisoners. Guided tours show the painted wooden ceiling of the Sala Magna and Renato Guttuso's painting La Vucciria.
Palazzo Abatellis is a late 15th-century Gothic-Catalan palace in the Kalsa quarter, designed by Matteo Carnilivari for the port master Francesco Abatellis. Since 1954 it houses the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, installed by Carlo Scarpa, with the fresco Triumph of Death, Antonello da Messina's Annunciata and Francesco Laurana's bust of Eleonora of Aragon.
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