Santa Caterina d'Alessandria or Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a Roman Catholic church with a main facade on Piazza Bellini, and a lateral Western facade facing the elaborate Fontana Pretoria, in the historic quarter of Kalsa in the city of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. In front of the main facade, across the piazza Bellini, rise the older churches of San Cataldo and Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio, while across Piazza Pretoria is the Theatine church of San Giuseppe and the entrance to the Quattro Canti. Refurbished over the centuries, the church retains elements and decorations from the Renaissance, Baroque, and late-Baroque (Rococo) eras. This church is distinct from the Oratorio di Santa Caterina found in the Olivella neighborhood.
Main façade of the church facing Piazza Bellini
The dome and the Fontana Pretoria
Chancel: at the top the fresco The Soul in glory rises to Heaven, by Antonio Filocamo and Paolo Filocamo
Church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio
The Church of St. Mary of the Admiral, also called Martorana, is the seat of the Parish of San Nicolò dei Greci, overlooking the Piazza Bellini, next to the Norman church of San Cataldo, and facing the Baroque church of Santa Caterina in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy.
The Baroque facade, with the Romanesque belltower and Byzantine dome
The divine coronation of Roger II of Sicily
The interior of the Martorana, before restoration (19th-century paintings)
Marble plaque in memory of the Albanian hero Scanderbeg (1968)
