A day in Palermo, three itineraries from the art history guide by Giuseppe Bellafiore

“A day in Palermo” collects the first three itineraries, “The old center”, “The old Cassaro” and “The Piano of the Palazzo”, of the famous “Guide of Palermo and surroundings” written by Art History Professor Giuseppe Bellafiore. This extract accompanies the visitor on a one-day walk from Quattro Canti to the Royal Palace, describing the architecture of the main monuments, which characterize the most ancient part of the city. The text is enriched with ink sketches.

Giuseppe Bellafiore
He was Professor of History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Palermo and then Ordinary Professor of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the homonymous Institute. For more than 40 years he has been the President of the Association Italia Nostra
He wrote several volumes in which he reconsidered, sometimes radically, the Sicilian history of art.

Among these volumes are:

• Il paesaggio urbano siciliano nelle antiche stampe, Andò, Palermo 1962.
• La civiltà artistica della Sicilia dalla preistoria ad oggi, Le Monnier, Firenze 1962.
• La Maniera italiana in Sicilia. Profilo dell’urbanistica e dell’architettura, Palumbo, Palermo 1962.
• Idea di Palermo Barocca, E.S.A., Palermo, 1971
• Dall’Islam alla Maniera. Profilo dell’architettura in Sicilia dal IX al XVI secolo, Flaccovio, Palermo 1975.
• La cattedrale di Palermo, Flaccovio, Palermo 1976.
• Architettura in Sicilia (1415-1535), Italia Nostra, Palermo 1984.
• Architettura in Sicilia nelle età islamica e normanna (827-1194), Lombardi, Palermo 1990.
• Architettura in Sicilia nell’età sveva (1194-1266), Lombardi, Palermo 1993.
• La Zisa di Palermo, Flaccovio, Palermo 1994.
• Parchi e Giardini della Palermo normanna, Flaccovio, Palermo 1996.
• Il centro storico di Palermo, Italia Nostra, Palermo 2003.