Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Palermo, Italy

The fountain of the Genie at Villa Giulia or Genio di Villa Giulia, is located in the park of Villa Giulia in Palermo.

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The Villa Giulia, also known as Villa del Popolo, and as Villa Flor is an urban public park, lying to the east of the Botanical Garden of Palermo, in the region of Sicily, Italy.

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The Orto Botanico di Palermo is both a botanical garden and a research and educational institution of the Department of Botany of the University of Palermo. The garden lies within the city of Palermo, Italy at 10 m (33 ft) above sea-level. It covers about 0.12 km2 on top of red soil that has evolved on a limestone tuff substratum.

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The "Pietro Doderlein" museum is a university museum of Zoology in Palermo. It is the most important zoological museum in Sicily and is dedicated to Professor Pietro Doderlein, who founded it in 1863.

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La Magione is a 12th-century Norman-Gothic architecture, Roman Catholic Basilica church, located on Via Magione #44, the entrance to the facade, which faces southeast, is through a garden path midway between via Castrofilippo and Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, in the ancient quarter of Kalsa of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. The apse of the church is on the southeast corner of Piazza Magione.

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The Garibaldi Theater in Palermo is located in the La Kalsa district, a few steps from the Basilica La Magione.

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The Garden of the Righteous is a public garden in Palermo, which was among the degraded spaces of the historic center recovered by the municipal administration in the years 1999-2000. The project curated by architects Mario Li Castri and Giuseppe Prestigiacomo, refers to the xirbe of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, small gardens of a productive and ornamental nature, obtained in the abandoned areas of urban construction, surrounded by walls inside courtyards. It is located in the center, and overlooks a street of significant importance for the historic center of the city: Via Alloro.

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The Genius of Piazza Rivoluzione or Fountain of the Genius, formerly known as the Genius of the Pier or Genius of the Fieravecchia, is a sixteenth-century statue placed on a nineteenth-century fountain located in Piazza Rivoluzione, in the Fieravecchia district of Palermo.

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The Teatro Santa Cecilia or Real Teatro di Santa Cecilia is a neoclassical-style theater building located on Piazza Teatro Santa Cecilia at the intersections with Via Cantavespri and Vicolo Guarnernara, in the ancient quarter of Kalsa of central Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.

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The Stanze al Genio Majolica Museum has an exhibition of almost 5000 examples of Italian majolica tiles from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century arranged in 9 rooms. The Museum is located within a portion of the noble floor of the seventeenth-century Palazzo Torre Pirajno, in the municipality of Palermo in Via Giuseppe Garibaldi n. 11. The main floor has been recently restored and inside you can see eighteenth and nineteenth-century ceiling decorations and period lambries. The itinerary is divided into a house museum that is actually inhabited and open to the public every day by reservation. Inside there are also minor collections of period stationery, contemporary ceramics, terracotta tiles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and modern antiques.

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The Porta di Vicari was one of the oldest gates in Palermo. It stood at the southern end of the artery consisting of Via Maqueda or Strada Nuova, opposite the Porta Maqueda, built to the north.

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The Municipal Historical Archive of Palermo is a building that preserves the archives of the municipal administration of Palermo, which contain documents from the end of the thirteenth century until 1957.

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Santa Maria degli Agonizzanti or Holy Mary of those in agony) is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on via Giovanni da Procida, just south of Via Roma, in central Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. It is located in the quarter of the Kalsa, within the historic centre of Palermo.

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San Nicola da Tolentino, or more in non-dialect known as the church Saint Niccolò da Tolentino, is a Roman Catholic church located on via Maqueda #157, between via dei Calderai and via Giardinaccio, at the Southwest border of the quarter of Kalsa (Tribunali) of the historic centre of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.

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The Real Teatro Bellini or Regio Teatro Carolino is a theater in Palermo built in 1726.

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The Church of St. Mary of the Admiral, also called Martorana, is the seat of the Parish of San Nicolò dei Greci, overlooking the Piazza Bellini, next to the Norman church of San Cataldo and facing the Baroque church of Santa Caterina, in Palermo, Italy.

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The Church of San Cataldo is a Catholic church located at Piazza Bellini, in central Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Erected in 1154 as a notable example of the Arab-Norman architecture which flourished in Sicily under Norman rule on the island, the church is annexed to that of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio. Since the 1930s, it belongs to the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

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San Giuseppe dei Teatini is a Roman Catholic church on via Vittorio Emanuele, at the southwest corner of the Quattro Canti, in the historic center of the city of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. The east flank of the nave faces the Fontana Pretoria, across the piazza from Santa Caterina. San Giuseppe is an example of the Sicilian Baroque in Palermo.

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The Church of the Gesù, known also as the Saint Mary of Jesus or the Casa Professa, is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church established under the patronage of the Jesuit order, and located at Piazza Casa Professa 21 in Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.

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The Church of Saint Ursula of the Blacks is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located in the central Via Maqueda #110, adjacent to the Palazzo Comitini, in the quarter of the Albergaria, within the historic centre of Palermo, Region of Sicily, Italy.

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The church of the Carmine Maggiore is a Roman Catholic church located on Piazza Carmine in front of an open market in the city of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.

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The Oratorio del Carminello is a Baroque chapel or prayer room located on Via Porta San Agata in the quarter of the Albergaria, within the historic centre of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.

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Porta Sant'Agata is a historic gate of Palermo.

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The "Gaetano Giorgio Gemmellaro" Museum is a paleontological and geological museum in Palermo, belonging to the University Museum System of the University of Palermo.

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The Church of Saint Francis Xavier is a Baroque church of Palermo. It is located on the Street of the same name in the quarter of the Albergaria, within the historic centre of Palermo. The building is considered the masterpiece of the Jesuit architect Angelo Italia.

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The Palatine Chapel is the royal chapel of the Norman Palace in Palermo, Sicily. This building is a mixture of Byzantine, Norman and Fatimid architectural styles, showing the tricultural state of Sicily during the 12th century after Roger I and Robert Guiscard conquered the island.

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The Giuseppe S. Vaiana Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, housed inside the Palazzo dei Normanni. It is one of the research facilities of the National Institute of Astrophysics. The observatory carries out research projects in the field of astronomy and astrophysics including the study of solar and stellar coronas, stellar evolution and of the supernova remnants.

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The Marble Theater is a Baroque monument of the city of Palermo, erected in 1662 in the square in front of the Royal Palace also known as Palazzo dei Normanni, today called Piazza del Parlamento.

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Villa Bonanno is a public garden in Palermo, in the Palazzo Reale district.

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Porta Nuova is a monumental city gate of Palermo. It represents the entrance of the Cassaro from Corso Calatafimi and is located beside Palazzo dei Normanni, royal palace of Palermo. The gate was built to celebrate Charles V's conquest of Tunis (1535) and his visit to the capital of the Kingdom of Sicily.

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