Parco della Palazzina Cinese (Palermo)

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  wgiocosowgiocoso

  Museo etnografico Giuseppe Pitrè

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  Giovanni Mascellaro (guest)Giovanni Mascellaro (guest)

  The Chinese Palace, shaded by Monte Pellegrino and immersed in the royal park of the Favorita, is a bulding which is worth visiting.It is a bizarre edifice, exotic, extravagant, with nothing else comparable to it in the rest of Southern Italy. Palermo had no tradition of relation or familiarity with pagodas, fanciful battlements, turrets, spires and galleries to justify, at the end of the 18th century, such evident architectonic extravagance.It must be noticed that this building with the most marked features of the Chinese style (but also Turkish, Persian and Indian) put up at the request of Ferdinand IV, king of the Two Sicilies, at the time when Napoleon flood reached Sicily as a backwash - yet it was built and lived in by the king during his few years of exile. Then,after almost one and half centuries of abandon, the Palace was used again. And leaving aside its questionable taste, in January 1935 the Pitré Ethnographic Museum was transferred from the four little rooms of the Assunta building to the outhouses of the strange villa, some 70 rooms around a spacious courtyard: the 1500 objects collected by Giuseppe Pitré, which Giuseppe Cocchiara had brought up to over 20000, thus creating the largest and most organic ethnographic collection in Southern Italy. by Giovanni Mascellaro

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  winter43 (guest)winter43 (guest)

  The Chinese Palace, shaded by Monte Pellegrino and immersed in the royal park of the Favorita, is a bulding which is worth visiting.It is a bizarre edifice, exotic, extravagant, with nothing else comparable to it in the rest of Southern Italy. Palermo had no tradition of relation or familiarity with pagodas, fanciful battlements, turrets, spires and galleries to justify, at the end of the 18th century, such evident architectonic extravagance.It must be noticed that this building with the most marked features of the Chinese style (but also Turkish, Persian and Indian) put up at the request of Ferdinand IV, king of the Two Sicilies, at the time when Napoleon flood reached Sicily as a backwash - yet it was built and lived in by the king during his few years of exile. Then,after almost one and half centuries of abandon, the Palace was used again. And leaving aside its questionable taste, in January 1935 the Pitré Ethnographic Museum was transferred from the four little rooms of the Assunta building to the outhouses of the strange villa, some 70 rooms around a spacious courtyard: the 1500 objects collected by Giuseppe Pitré, which Giuseppe Cocchiara had brought up to over 20000, thus creating the largest and most organic ethnographic collection in Southern Italy. by Giovanni Mascellaro

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