Completed in 1143, this chapel is part of the Royal Palace complex in Palermo and was once described by the French author Guy de Maupassant as "the finest religious jewel ever dreamed up by the ...

Europe is always changing — and on my last visit to Sicily’s capital of Palermo I discovered that ... A great example is at the Palatine Chapel, built in the 12th century inside the Norman ...

Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean ... visit the sumptuous Palazzo dei Normanni and its Palatine Chapel, or the famous Palermo Cathedral, a unique blend of Norman, Gothic and Arabic ...