Monreale is very close to Palermo and it’s easily accessible by car, taxi or city buses whose hour schedules are available on the website www.amat.pa.it. You can buy the tickets at tobacco shops and in general at the authorized resellers exposing a special mark
In last years many hotels, B&Bs and holiday houses facing to different customer ranges were set up in Monreale and always offer low prices which can change according to the period of the year.
The Monrealese culinary tradition is an integral part of the Mediterranean diet and the Slow Food’s philosophy: local raw materials, so consumption at zero kilometre and genuine dishes.
Just walk away a few kilometres. The excursions we propose are close each other, offer landscapes and nature just round the corner, inviting us to spend our time on a less convulsive way.
Craftsmanship is one of the activites that the most mark Monreale and its territory. One of craftsmanship’s activities for which Monreale stands out is the art of mosaic
Also the art of ceramic, along with mosaic one, mark Monreale and its territory
In Monreale there are many online newspapers
Carabineers’ Station, Municipal Police, Municipal Administration
Monreale is very close to Palermo and it’s easily accessible by car, taxi or city buses whose hour schedules are available on the website www.amat.pa.it. You can buy the tickets at tobacco shops and in general at the authorized resellers exposing a special mark
In last years many hotels, B&Bs and holiday houses facing to different customer ranges were set up in Monreale and always offer low prices which can change according to the period of the year.
The Monrealese culinary tradition is an integral part of the Mediterranean diet and the Slow Food’s philosophy: local raw materials, so consumption at zero kilometre and genuine dishes.
Just walk away a few kilometres. The excursions we propose are close each other, offer landscapes and nature just round the corner, inviting us to spend our time on a less convulsive way.
Craftsmanship is one of the activites that the most mark Monreale and its territory. One of craftsmanship’s activities for which Monreale stands out is the art of mosaic
Also the art of ceramic, along with mosaic one, mark Monreale and its territory
In Monreale there are many online newspapers.
Carabinieers’ Station, Municipal Police, Municipal Administration.
The Pro Loco of Monreale is a volunteering association with no lucrative goals,
with public social utility valence and public interest relevance,
which does its activities within the Municipality of Monreale’s territory
Its main goals are inherent to the social promotion,
the appreciation of reality and the natural, cultural, historical,
touristic and enogastronomical potentials of Monreale.
So, it works in favour of the social and touristic development,
making use of the volunteering activities of its own associates and organizing,
even with the partnership of the Municipal Administration,
cultural initiatives in order to value and promote the territory.
The Dome of Monreale is an architectural marvel of Romanesque-Latin-Norman-Byzantine style: it is simple, majestic and severe. It collects a great profusion of wealth, the mosaics on a gold background surround the internal factory for more than six thousand square meters…
The Benedictine Cloister was part of the monastery and is one of the most important cloisters of the Mediterranean area. It’s the heart of the entire Abbey Complex and is a wonderful example of Byzantine architecture in Sicily…
Starting from the end of the 16th century, in Monreale’s neighbourhoods flourish churches and chapels expressing the religious devotion and also the charitable commitment of religious and lay Brotherhoods. The buildings use the Baroque architectural canons…
For a town all clinging to the slopes of Mount Caputo, fountains are essential. It is a town that in the lower part has all the water wealth of the Oreto river basin, but in the upper part has no springs. And an archbishop in the 1700s even decided to build an aqueduct to bring water to the homes of the people of Monreale…
In the Historia della chiesa di Monreale, published in 1596 by the archbishop Ludovico II Torres with the pseudonym of Gian Luigi Lello – his personal secretary – we read that Monreale was divided into four parts. The first and most ancient, the Pozzillo, took its name from the flowing water…
The first core of the library “Santa Maria La Nuova” dates back to the arrival of the monks who received many privileges from William: among other things, the abbot was elevated to the dignity of archbishop and the abbey had “libris et sacris vestibus argento et auro”…
