Geoff Brock & Bruce Gamble
         
     
   
 
 
 
 

Palermo
(including the Palatine Chapel)
Friday 19th May 2017
 
 
Early morning arrival in Palermo
 
 
 
 
We decided to do our own thing today. Our fellow travellers went to Monreale in the morning (because the cathedral was going to be closed in the afternoon for a wedding) and then did the city tour in the afternoon. We concluded that Palermo itself might be quieter in the morning and we were right. We visited the Palatine Chapel, which was very quiet indeed compared with our last visit there in 2013 and were able to spend lots of time there. We also got more exercise than we had on any day for the past week!
 
Piazza Giuseppe Verdi
 
Tabacchi
 
 
 
Just another c19th century church...
 
Piazza of the four winds
 
 
 
Palermo Cathedral
 
 
 
Palatine Palace
 
Frescoes in the Palatine Chapel dating from 1140
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Palatine Palace
 
Palatine Palace
 
Back to the cathedral
 
Inside the cathedral
 
 
 
Dessert after a Sicilian lunch on the ship!
 
Next stop - Lipari
 
 
©Geoff Brock and Bruce Gamble