Palermo & Monreale, Sicily, Italy

today we arrived in palermo and after checking a place to stay over night in sferracafallo we went straight to monreale. monreale is 7 km southwest of palermo on the slope of monte caputo. the inhabitants work mainly in agriculture, trade, handicrafts and tourism. the most famous building is the monreale cathedral, a norman building from the 12th century. it shows the symbiosis of romanesque, arabic and byzantine art that was widespread in sicily at the time. but truely speaking i was more interested in italian salumerias and pasticcerias so most of the time i was looking for them 😜.Läs mer