Marco Rosario Nobile

Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo certainly constitutes the most intact and representative non-religious building from the fifteenth century in Sicily. Since 1954 it has housed the Sicilian Regional Gallery, with a fine display project by the architect Carlo Scarpa. Together with the art treasures contained in it, it affords a remarkable overview of the cultural environment on the island from the Middle Ages to the modern age. A building with a regular geometrical conformation, articulated around a courtyard with a portico on two levels, both supported by columns, in the original project it was to present a façade enclosed between crenellated towers (only one tower was completed).