Piazza Bellini is a square of
Palermo
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. It is located in the heart of the city, near the central
Via Maqueda
Via Maqueda, also known as "''Strada Nuova''" (''New Street''), is an important street of Palermo. Together with the Cassaro, Palermo, Cassaro, it represents the main axis of the historic centre and provides access to a number of important sights ...
and
Piazza Pretoria
Piazza Pretoria is at the limits of the district of Kalsa, near the corner of Cassaro with Via Maqueda, just a few meters from the Quattro Canti, the intersection where all the four ancient quarters intersect, in the city of Palermo, region o ...
, in the
quarter of the
Kalsa
Kalsa or Mandamento Tribunali is a historical quarter of the Italian city of Palermo in Sicily. It is sometimes referred to as la Kalsa or the Kalsa.
Names
The common name of the quarter, ''Kalsa'', derives from the district's historic Arabic ...
, within the historic centre of Palermo.
In its perimeter are located two buildings dating back to the era of
Norman Sicily
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: the churches of
Martorana
The Church of St. Mary of the Admiral (), also called Martorana, is the seat of the ''Parish of San Nicolò dei Greci'' (), overlooking the Piazza Bellini, next to the Norman church of San Cataldo and facing the Baroque church of Santa Cate ...
and
San Cataldo (both are
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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as part of
). In the square are also located the
Baroque
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church of
Santa Caterina, the
Bellini Theatre and the posterior facade of
Palazzo Pretorio, headquarters of the
Comune
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of Palermo. Moreover, in the square some ruins of
Punic
The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people who migrated from Phoenicia to the Western Mediterranean during the Early Iron Age. In modern scholarship, the term ''Punic'' ...
walls are visible. Near the square, in Via Maqueda, has its location the Faculty of Jurisprudence.
Gallery
File:Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio.jpg, Church of Martorana
File:San Cataldo Palmero Aussen.jpg, Church of San Cataldo
File:Palermo, Santa Caterina - facciata.JPG, Church of Santa Caterina
File:Palermo - Palazzo Pretorio particolare01.jpg, Palazzo Pretorio
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External links
Piazza Bellini - ''viamichelin.co.uk''
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