Palazzo Adriano is a town and comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

in the province of Palermo

Province of Palermo

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, Sicily

Sicily

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, southern Italy

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History

The first mentions of one casale Arianum date from before 1060 under the reign of the Norman Roger I of Sicily

Roger I of Sicily

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. More reliable are the data on the hamlet of Palazzo Adriano reported in a document 1243. Since 1282 the feuds that now constitute the area of Palazzo Adriano series saw more than thirty baronies granted any lease by the abbots of the monastery of Santa Maria di Fossanova.

Main sights

• Church of Maria SS. Assunta (16th century), of Byzantine rite
• Church of Maria SS. del Lume (18th century), of Latin rite
• Church of Maria SS. del Carmelo (16th century). It has a single nave, with a portal with Corinthian columns.
• Sanctuary of San Nicola (16th century)
• Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie (16th century)
• Bourbon
  House of Bourbon
  The House of Bourbon is a European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty . Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma...
  
   Castle

Culture

In 1988, Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore

-Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...

 has also chosen as a setting outside Palazzo Adriano for his film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

Nuovo cinema Paradiso , internationally released as Cinema Paradiso, is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore...

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Notable people

Giovanni Emanuele Bidera, was an Italian poet and playwright. He was born in Palazzo Adriano.

External links

• Official website