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Palazzo Adriano

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Country
  
Italy

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area
  
129 km²

Province
  
Province of Palermo

Region
  
Sicily

Province / Metropolitan city
  
Palermo (PA)

Dialing code
  
091

Local time
  
Tuesday 6:21 AM

Postal code
  
90030

Dialling code
  
091

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Weather
  
10°C, Wind NE at 8 km/h, 66% Humidity

Palazzo Adriano (Sicilian: Palazzu) is a town and comune in the province of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy.

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Map of 90030 Palazzo Adriano Province of Palermo, Italy

History

The first mention of a casale Arianum dates from before 1060 under the reign of the Norman Roger I of Sicily. More reliable is information about the hamlet of Palazzo Adriano reported in a 1243 document. Since 1282, the fiefs land holdings that now constitute the area of Palazzo Adriano saw more than thirty baronies granted leases by the abbots of the monastery of Santa Maria di Fossanova.

Main sights

  • Church of Maria SS. Assunta (16th century), of Byzantine rite
  • Church of Maria SS. del Lume (18th century), of Latin rite
  • Church of Maria SS. del Carmelo (16th century). It has a single nave, with a portal with Corinthian columns.
  • Sanctuary of San Nicola (16th century)
  • Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie (16th century)
  • Bourbon Castle

    • Culture

    In 1988, Giuseppe Tornatore also chose Palazzo Adriano as the setting for his film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso.

    Notable people

  • Giovanni Emmanuele Bidera, was an Italian poet and playwright. He was born in Palazzo Adriano.
  • Francesco Crispi, Prime Minister of Italy
  • Giuseppe Crispi, author of the first monograph on the Albanian language
  • Gavril Dara Junior, politician and poet

    • References

    Palazzo Adriano Wikipedia
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