Palermo - useful informations about Palermo and its district

Palermo sicilian chief town finds space between the tyrrhenian gulf and the mountains of the Conca d'Oro. The palermitano was always the union point between the west culture and the eastern culture. Strategic commercial zone thanks to its position on the sea, in the past has suffered numerous dominations, from Romen to Bizantine, from Arabic to Normen, from Svevi to French, from Spanishes to Austrians and all left the unmistakable track of their permanence and almost always it is discussed of depositions of extraordinary value. Palaces, monuments and costructions of varies type in fact present the characteristic of the different culture. Between the places to visit if they can cite of it some like the Cappella Palatina that was done build to Ruggiero II, the church of San Giovanni of the Eremiti that results to be one of the arabo-normanni monuments well-knonw of Palermo and the Cattedrale, imposing building, raised towards the end of XII century in siculo-normanno style. For last, but not for the importance there are the caves of the Addaura, created by the sea, but decorated 14.000 years ago with paleograffiti representing animals and a group of nine human picture with strange coverhead.