Unveiled Sicily
Palermo, Monreale, Erice, Agrigento, Enna, Catania, Siracusa.

A building is rarely a simple envelope. Each external element can, more or less discreetly, affirm its identity. Always, a temple, a noble palace, a fountain conceal a true communication which Mr Jones not often notice, and whose chances that he can understand it are low. Read a city from this point of view becomes a cultural and emotional exciting adventure.
That and much more is what «Unveiled Sicily» brings you, guiding your discovering the history and the stories of Palermo and elsewhere in Sicily, paying attention to details, usually so forgotten. Once unveiled the mysteries in the stone and the geometries, one has the feeling a memory has been awakened which was simply asleep waiting for us. And we return home after our visit to Sicily rich of a methodology that will bring us to discover our own city, our own cultural roots.

1. PALERMO UNVEILED
Historic Centre 1, from market Square to market Square
Full version - Timing: 7 hours
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1. Teatro Massimo;
2. Capo’s Market including Immacolata;
3. Cathedral;
4. Palace Sclafani (ext.);
5. Palace Federico (ext.);
6. Ballarò market Square;
7. Casa Professa;
8. Palace Comitini & Trigona-Sant’Elia (ext.);
9. Judaic quarter;
10. via Calderai;
11. via Roma;
12. Vucciria market Square;
13. San Domenico (ext.);
14. Olivuzza;
15. via Bara all’olivella;
16. Teatro Massimo.

2. PALERMO UNVEILED
Historic Centre 1
Short version   Timing: 4 hours
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1. Teatro Massimo;
2. Capo’s Market including Immacolata;
3. Cathedral;
4. Palace Sclafani (ext.);
5. Palace Federico (ext.);
6. Casa Professa;
7. Market de Ballarò;
8. Porte S. Agata.

3. PALERMO UNVEILED
Historic Centre 2, Long the Sacred Axis
Full version - Timing: 7 hours
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1. Royal Palace ;
2. Palatine Chappell (entrance fee);
3. Porta Nuova;
4. Cathedral ;
5. Piano dei Bologni ;
6. Quattro Canti di città ;
7. Pretoria’s Square ;
8. S. Maria dell’Ammiraglio ;
9. S.Anna’s Square ;
10. Palace Ganci & Bonnet (ext.);
11. San Francesco d’Assisi ;
12. via Merlo, Palace Filangeri ;
13. Marina’s Square;
14. Villa Garibaldi ;
15. Palace Chiaramonte (entrance fee);
16. S. Maria della Catena ;
17. Palace Butera ;
18. Porte Felice.

4. PALERMO UNVEILED
Historic Centre 2
Short version  Timing: 4 hours
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1. Villa Bonanno ;
2. Cathedral ;
3. Piano dei Bologni ;
4. Quattro Canti di città ;
5. Pretoria’s Square ;
6. S. Maria dell’Ammiraglio ;
7. Casa Professa.

5. MONREALE UNVEILED
Benedictine Cathedral & cloister
Timing: 4 hours
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• In the cathedral
  Humanity revealed, the paths of asceticism, theophany of light, the ancient Alliances, the Book of Kings, Paraedesa, Normans glory and decline, a French host, etc..
• In the cloister
  Technical and historical basis for a correct approach, the learning experience illustrated by the capitals, the apex of Christian esotericism, the heavenly Jerusalem, etc.