Villa Palagonia

The Villa Palagonia is a patrician villa in Bagheria, 15 km from Palermo, in Sicily, southern Italy. The villa itself, built from 1715 by the architect Tommaso Napoli with the help of Agatino Daidone, is one of the earliest examples of Sicilian Baroque. However, its popularity comes mainly from the statues of monsters with human faces that decorate its garden and its wall, and earned it the nickname of "The Villa of Monsters" (Villa dei Mostri).

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Villa Palagonia has been one of the venues for music concerts held within the framework of the Concert Season of Bagheria (Stagione Concertistica Città di Bagheria) initiative since 2017, with free entrance.^[1][2]

Palagonìa and Mineo

Palagonìa and Mineo are a rocky area rich of caverns escaved and adhibited to be funerary tombs. One of them, the tomb 15 of

• Claude Arthaud, Les Palais du rêve, Arthaud, 1970 (in French)
• Michel-Jean, comte de Borch, Lettres sur la Sicile et sur l'île de Malte, 1782 Extraits en ligne
• (in English) Patrick Brydone, A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk (1st ed. 1773)
• (in French) Alexandre Dumas, Impressions de voyage
• (in French) Dominique Fernandez, Le Radeau de la Gorgone (Promenades en Sicile), photographies de Ferrante Ferranti, Grasset, 1988
• (in French) Dominique Fernandez, Le Voyage d'Italie (Dictionnaire amoureux), photographies de Ferrante Ferranti, Plon, 1997
• (in French)
  Goethe
  , Voyage en Italie, 1787
• (in French) P. Hachet, Psychanalyse d'un choc esthétique : La villa Palagonia et ses visiteurs, L'Harmattan, 2002
• (in French) Giovanni Macchia, Le Prince de Palagonia, Quai Voltaire, 1987
• (in French) Dacia Maraini, Retour à Bagheria, Seuil, 2004
• (in English) E. H. Neil, Architecture in context : The Villas of Bagheria, Sicily, Harvard University, 1995
• (in French) Madeleine Pinault, Catalogue de l'exposition
  musée du Louvre
  , RMN
• (in Italian) Mario Praz, Bellezza e bizzarria, 1960
• (in French) Mario Praz, Le Jardin des sens, Christian Bourgois, 1975
• (in Italian) F. Santapà, Villa Palagonia a Bagheria, Palermo, Palma, 1968
• (in Italian) R. Scaduto, Villa Palagonia: storia e restauro, Bagheria, E. M. Falcone, 2007
• (in Italian) Ferdinando Scianna, La Villa dei mostri, Einaudi, 1977
• (in English) Henry Swinburne, Travels in the Two Sicilies, 1777-1780, Cadell & Elmsly, London, 1790
• (in Italian) N. Tedesco, Villa Palagonia, Palermo, 1988
• (in French) Angheli Zalapì, Demeures de Sicile, préface de Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, photographies de Melo Minnella, Könemann, 2000

Filmography

• Several scenes of L'Avventura (1960), by Michelangelo Antonioni, with Monica Vitti, were filmed at the Villa Palagonia.
• Several scenes of " Mafioso (1962), by Alberto Lattuada, with Alberto Sordi
• In The Wedding Director (2006), by Marco Bellocchio, Sami Frey plays the part of a descendant of the Prince Gravina di Palagonia.
• Filming of the scenes from "L'Avventura" are featured in "Baaria" (2009) which is set in Bagheria by director Giuseppe Tornatore

See also

• Villa Spedalotto
• Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi
• Villa Francia

References

1. ^ "Orchestra a mandolini a plettro". CulturArt Palermo (in Italian).
2. ^ "16° appuntamento della seconda Stagione Concertistica Città di Bagheria "Gran Concerto a Villa Palagonia"" [16th meeting of the second Concert Season of Bagheria "Grand Concert at Villa Palagonia"]. Città di Bagheria (in Italian). November 28, 2018. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
3. OCLC 7179633374. Archived from the original on May 13, 2018 – via DOAJ. {{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help
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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Villa Palagonia (Bagheria).

• (in Italian) Villa Palagonia - official site
• (in English) Villa Palagonia: Photos and info
• LIFE Magazine (May 8, 1950) article

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