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A photograph of the courtyard of the Palazzo Bonagia, the Palermo residence of the Dukes of Castel di Mirto, looking towards the rococo staircase.

The steps, columns, and balustrades are of red marble from Castellammare del Golfo, all conceived in the mind of Andrea Giganti, priest-architect of the Sicilian baroque.

The building was bombed during the last war and reduced to a shell, but thorough if slow-going restoration work began in 2009 and continues.

Published at 10:35 am on Tuesday 1 November 2016. Categories: Architecture Errant Thoughts Tags: , , .
Comments

“Bombed during the war and reduced to s shell”- just like civilisation itself.

— L G Clark 1 Nov 2016 5:06 pm

Sadly, I couldn’t agree more with you L G Clark. Every time I hear Cole Porter’s song ‘Anything Goes’ I think that they thought it was bad when the song was composed in the mid-thirties, but it just keeps getting worse and worse:
‘The world has gone mad today,
And good’s bad today,
And black’s white today,
And day’s night today….’

— J C R Cross 17 Nov 2016 4:35 pm

What a dream!! It almost doesn’t look real

— Valeria Kondratiev 30 Nov 2016 8:43 pm
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