Yes, there are more than cats, pigeons and mummified humans in Palermo.
Just take a look at the sculpted human figures on the columns in the cloisters at the Church of Santa Maria La Nuova in Monreale; the mosaic above the entrance to the Palatine Chapel at the Palace of the Norman Kings in Palermo; and enamored crowds inside the chapel gazing at what Guy de Maupassant called “the most surprising religious jewel ever dreamt of.”
Figures on a cloister column in Monreale.
Mosaic outside the Palatine Chapel in Palermo.
Crowds admiring the world’s “most surprising religious jewel.”
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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