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The oldest area in Palermo is adjacent to Via Vittorio Emanuele, between the Norman and Cathedral Palace, its two largest tourist attractions.The city expanded in the port of Arabs in the 9th-19th centuries as the capital of the emirms in Sicily, a city of mosques and palaces equal to those in Baghdad and Cordoba.

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This open circular space was arranged between 1608 and 1620 by the Roman architect Giulio Lasso at the intersection of the two major streets of Palermo at that time: Cassarò (now known as Vittorio Emanuele), who leads from Norman Palace to Port, and Via Nuova, later renamed Maqueda after Viceregele.concave facade on each of the four corners.At the ground level on each corner, he built a well, with figures carved on the three upper floors, accompanied by classical Greek columns.It passed long after 1620 before they were completed;Consequently, above the sculptures that symbolize the four seasons, it was possible to introduce statues of the four Spanish kings since 1516. On the last floor there are four holy patron.Inside is the fresco of Dom the triumph of A. Andrea Avellino by Guglielmo Borreman (1724), Pietro Novelli paintings and stucco and marble decorations from the end of the eighteenth century.