Church of Santa Maria Dell’Ammiraglio. Martorana. Palermo. Italy Audiobook (Free)

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In 1072, Norman Dukes conquered Palermo and, in Sicily, began an era in which the Byzantine culture, the data from the Arabs and the expressiveness from the Normans fused, creating an extraordinary unity. The image of this synthesis may be the cathedral of Santa Maria dell’Amiraglio, better referred to as “la Martorana”. It had been made based on the will from the Syrian Admiral of King Ruggero II, about Church of Santa Maria Dell’Ammiraglio. Martorana. Palermo. Italy George of Antioch. The word “admiral”, the name given to the cathedral, refers to the job of its founder.

In 1221, the church was patronized by the pope, who guaranteed the church’s right of Greek worship.

In 1282, through the Sicilian vespers’ war, it had been in the church building, which became the chair from the Pretoria Courtroom in Palermo, where in fact the Sicilian Parliament offered the crown to King Peter of Aragon.

While in 1443 King Alfonso of Aragon assigned the chapel to the close by Benedictine monastery, it assumed its second name, “Martorana”. Of great value will be the mosaics of spiritual, historical and politics significance.

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