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RESEARCH PRODUCT
A rediscovered sign of the medieval identity in the ancient town of Palermo: a tower house in the Kalsa and its historical stratifications
Gaspare Ventimigliasubject
Sicilia Palermo Architettura Chiaramontana Palazzo Cefalà ConservazioneSicily Palermo Chiaramontes’ Architecture Cefalà Palace ConservationSettore ICAR/19 - Restaurodescription
A building supposedly belonged to the House of Chiaramonte (or Chiaromonte) in Sicily was kept for several centuries inside the volume of a larger building in the Kalsa district of Islamic foundation, in Palermo. The sudden detachment of the plaster and some stone elements at the beginning of the 80s of the 20th century made it possible to identify the traces of the façade of a fourteenth-century tower-house, characterized by a series of four windows with pointed arched elements and archivolts with rings of broken sticks, surmounted by a weft of interwoven bands of two-tone stone elements. The contribution retraces the study activities to identify the architectural cultures that coexist in the current conformation of the building and define the suited conservation strategy.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-30 |