The Palazzo dell'Esposizione was a building in

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erected to host the 1907 Sicilian Agricultural Exposition. The building had the architectural style reminiscent of the

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, as well as being

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- Orientalist and

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. The building was located in Piazza d'Armi (today's Piazza Giovanni Verga) and was built according to plans by Sicilian engineer Luciano Franco (1868-1943). Although all of the existing structures built for the Expo were dismantled as of 1st December 1907, the building itself was actually demolished in 1911. In 1936, in the northern side of the esplanade, which by then had been renamed Piazza dell'Esposizione, works for the construction of the imposing Palace of Justice were set in motion, to be completed in 1953, after a hiatus owing mainly to

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, lasting from 1940 to 1948.

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