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The majestic Cathedral of Palermo Norman stands out in the urban landscape-high Cassaro, just outside the AF Area Galka driving force of culture and delpotere Royal Norman age. According to tradition, where today stands the Cathedral, already existed in the fourth century sanctuary where a cemetery was built in the sixth century basilica, transformed into a mosque in the Arab period 
(ninth century). It tells the Malaterra that in 1072, after the Norman conquest of Palermo, the mosque was returned to Christian worship, reconfigured as a church and entrusted to vescovo Nicodemo. Under the reign of William II the building was reconstructed for the archbishop of Palermo Walter initiative, serving from 1169 to 1190. Place of worship, fortress and mausoleum, the Cathedral gualteriana spread over a basilica with three naves leading into a eminent triapsidal sanctuary and equipped with transect. You enter the church through the
(ninth century). It tells the Malaterra that in 1072, after the Norman conquest of Palermo, the mosque was returned to Christian worship, reconfigured as a church and entrusted to vescovo Nicodemo. Under the reign of William II the building was reconstructed for the archbishop of Palermo Walter initiative, serving from 1169 to 1190. Place of worship, fortress and mausoleum, the Cathedral gualteriana spread over a basilica with three naves leading into a eminent triapsidal sanctuary and equipped with transect. You enter the church through the
fifteenth southern portico in Catalan-Gothic style. The leftmost column of the porch bears on an Arabic drum, typical witness to the reuse of architectural elements of Islamic ages in the Norman period. Inside the Cathedral of Palermo stands out for the' unusual length of the aisles, the middle one is covered with barrel vaults. Repeated followed tampering over the centuries, have in fact altered the original Norman structure. The strict stereometric order volumes, typical of Arab-Norman, is more visible in the exterior design of the church. The Gualteriana's building orientation, with its considerable length, it was subject to the factory's connection to the west tower that gives the building, along with the trenches located in the outer walls, a fortress appearance. Elements of high trails defense system are the pair of towers on the east and west, which have higher today than in the rectangular body that distinguished age gualteriana. Of great importance it is also the decoration inlaid lava of the external wall surfaces, whose duotone, given by the combination of different materials, is typical of Norman Sicily.
