So what else is there to see in Palermo? Well plenty of churches for sure. I wasn't successful in enticing Mike into as many of them as I would have liked!
A monument to victims of the Mafia. Modern, so no artistic effort expended at all - just big lump of rusty iron.
One of Europe's largest opera houses, which took a mere 24 years to restore. It looks great but 24 years?
Of course, the archaeological museum
A room dedicated to metopes from Selininte
This is the marble tail from some statue. It is a great shame there isn't the rest of it, but this bit is perfectly preserved and gives a good idea of just how amazingly fine the carvings would have been.This one is not eroded or fractured in any way. As one can see from the top of it, it would have been bolted into a statue, maybe a centaur
These are all from Selinunte. The lion head water spouts are again in great condition.
And another art gallery, once more with little to excite inside but just nice to pass into a 15th century gothic Renaissance palace - Palazzo Abatellis
Detail from the Triumph of the Dead, apparently painted for a hospital! (From days where hospitals were more reserved for palliative care, so more hospice than hospital)
Church of San Cataldo, in Arab-Norman style, with three pink domes on top
The exuberant Fontana Pretoria; sadly nice photographs a little hard to take due to the restoration works on the building behind
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