Posted May 13, 2026, 3:03 PM
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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine
As Southern Italian cities go, Palermo has more to offer than Naples. It's even more derelict than Naples, but it has stunning ancient architecture and mosaics which are really unique in Europe (from around the year 1000, when the Normands wrested the island away from the Arabs). Naples is more Baroque, more recent. It's more common, you can find Baroque everywhere in Europe, whereas the sorts of things from around 1000 that you can see in Palermo is much more unique.
Like that for example, Arab ceiling and Byzantine mosaics:
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This is common in Andalusia too.
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