Church · Palermo, Italy

Cappella Palatina

An Islamic muqarnas ceiling over Byzantine mosaics, commissioned by a Norman king, in one room.

Cappella Palatina is in Palermo, and this is Palermo — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 1,280 km across and 460 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 1 hour · Open year-round · 38.111°N, 13.353°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

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Palermo · The South & the Islands · Italy

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Journeys that stop here

The Classical Mediterranean

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18 days

The record

What this atlas holds about Cappella Palatina, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Church
Give it: 1 hour
Season: Open year-round
Where: 38.111°N, 13.353°E
In: Palermo