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Monreale Cathedral

1174 · 12th century

Monreale Cathedral is a church in the hills above Palermo in Sicily, founded by King William II in 1174 together with a Benedictine abbey. Its interior is covered with vast gold-ground mosaics of Old and New Testament scenes, and its cloister has more than 200 carved columns. It is part of the World Heritage Site Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale.

Monreale Cathedral — Image: Holger Uwe Schmitt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Kingdom of Sicily

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Monreale Cathedral. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/monreale-cathedral
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