Palace of the Badia Vecchia - Taormina
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Palazzo della Badia Vecchia - Taormina

The Palazzo della Badia Vecchia was built in the fourteenth century. 

Initially it was a tower to defend the walls that surrounded Taormina. 

According to some scholars, the building is called Badia Vecchia, because it had to house an Abbey, that is an Abbey, where Mother Abbess Eufemia, regent since 1355 of the kingdom of Sicily, lived in the name of her younger brother Federico IV called the Simple.

The Badia Vecchia represents a fine example of XNUMXth century Gothic architecture, even if it has been modified in the following centuries. 

A frieze with inlays in lava stone and white Syracuse stone decorates and divides the first from the second floor. 

The façade overlooking the city is characterized by three magnificent pointed mullioned windows.

The mullioned window is a window characterized by a central column, which divides the opening into two parts. The arches of the two lateral mullioned windows are decorated with a single rose window, while the arch of the central mullioned window is decorated with three rosettes. 

The palace is crowned with dovetail battlements, just like a medieval castle.

The Badia Vecchia is home to the Archaeological Museum of Taormina. 

Source: website of the Municipality of Taormina

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