Palazzo isnello
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Palazzo isnello, also known as Palazzo Termine d'Iznello and Palazzo Sant Antoni Al Cassaro - is an ancient palace in the style of the Sicilian Baroque, which stands between the ancient street Cassaro and Piazza della Kalsa quarter Borsa in Palermo. The vaults of the dance hall, located at the main floor of the palace, you can see the fresco "The glorification of Palermo" - one of the seven monumental image of the Spirit of Palermo, the ancient deity of the city.

Palazzo, which was built during the 18th century and finally completed in 1760, was designed by an unknown architect for graphs and rulers Bauchiny isnello - commune obeying Palermo .  Palace, main façade which faces the street Via Cassaro, was built with the union of the six that existed on the site of medieval buildings .  In the 19th century - up until 1843 - there lived a historian Michele Amari until it fell out of favor among the rulers of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies for his separatist and revolutionary ideas that he expressed in an article on The Sicilian Vespers .  For this, he was exiled to France .  During the Second World War, the Palazzo was severely damaged by hit him bomb the US, but in the following years renovated .  Since the 1980s, a dance hall and several other rooms of the palace can be rented for various events, but other areas are privately owned .  In 2006, on the eastern facade of the Palazzo it was placed a plaque in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Michele Amari .

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