Abatellis Palace - Palermo

Via Alloro, 4. Built in the 1526th century, today it is the seat of the Regional Gallery of Sicily. The Palace (late 16th century), the work of Matteo Carnilivari. A splendid example of Gothic-Catalan architecture, it was the residence of Francesco Abatellis (or Patella), master Portulano of the Kingdom. Without heirs, the Abatellis orders that the palace remain with his wife, and that upon her death the palace be founded there a monastery of women under the title of Santa Maria della Pietà. Then in May 17 a group of nuns of the Dominican order, coming from the Monastery of Santa Caterina, moved into the palace. Numerous adaptations were necessary to make it adequate to the needs of monastic life, and as can be seen from a map published by Filippo Meli in Matteo Carnelivari and the architecture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Palermo, the different wings were divided to create cells and corridors. During the night between 1943 and XNUMX April XNUMX the palace was hit during an air raid and the loggia, the portico, the entire south-west wing and the wall of the west tower collapsed. The authorities then decided to restore it and transform the building into an “Art Gallery for medieval art collections”.

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