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ITALIA
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 The
biggest sicilian city is also its cultural and historical hearth, thanks
to a wonderful artistic and architectonic fortune. The city, whose name
derives from the greek ‘all harbour’, was actually founded from the
Fenicians, probably in the 8th century B.C.. In the 5th B.C. it became
the most important Carthaginese fortress on the island. After the roman
conquest and the bizantinian domain, under the arabic control started
in 831 A.C. Palermo became capital of Sicilian autonomous emirate, and
one of the most crowded bazars in the Mediterranean sea. In the Normannic
period many bizantinian artwork changed again the architectonic tissue
of Palemo downtown, as it is witnessed from the very beautiful Cappella
Palatina and the Monreale’s Duomo. The actual face of this southern
modern metropolis is that of a city with its mysterious and raiding
fascine, closed into the net of its arab lanes, into the wonderfulness
of its buildings and sanctuaries, in the art treasuries, in the paradises
of natural scenarios and in the unchanged value of ancient traditions
in artworks as in the typical kitchen.
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GRECIA
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