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Monreale is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Southern Italy. It is located 310 meters above the sea level on the slope of Mount Caputo, a small promontory overlooking the
Interior of Monreale Cathedral.
Benedictine Monastery.
William II offering the Monreale Cathedral to the Virgin Mary, in the cathedral.
The cloister of the abbey of Monreale.
The Abbey of San Martino delle Scale is a Benedictine monastery and church located in the hills a few kilometers northwest of Monreale, region of Sicily, Italy. Putatively founded in the 7th-century,
Monreale
…monastery. It measures c. 80 x 30 m on an irregular plan with four towers on the western side, a middle tower and an entrance tower on the eastern side. Abbey church of San Martino delle Scale, founded in the 6th century AD. It is on the Latin cross plan with a dome, a choir with paintings by Paolo De Matteis (1727), two small side apses…
View of the abbey and church