The Cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova is the main place of Catholic worship in Monreale, in the metropolitan city of Palermo, the archbishop's see of the Archdiocese of Palermo. Built starting from 1174 at the behest of William II of Altavilla, king of Sicily from 1166 to 1189, it is famous for the rich Byzantine mosaics that decorate its interior. In August 1926 Pope Pius XI elevated it to the dignity of a minor basilica. From 3 July 2015 it is part of the World Heritage Site (UNESCO) within the Arab-Norman Route of Palermo, Cefalù and Monreale.

The primatial metropolitan cathedral of the Holy Virgin Mary the Assumption, known simply as the cathedral of Palermo, is the main place of Catholic worship in the city of Palermo and a bishop's seat of the homonymous archdiocese of the city

The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele, better known as Teatro Massimo, of Palermo is the largest opera theater building in Italy, and one of the largest in Europe, third by architectural magnitude after the Opéra National de Paris and the Staatsoper of Vienna. Representative environments, halls, galleries and monumental staircases surround the theater itself, forming an architectural complex of grandiose proportions.

I Quattro Canti, or piazza Villena, or Ottagono del Sole, or Teatro del Sole, is the name of an octagonal square at the intersection of the two main roads of Palermo: the Via Maqueda and the Cassaro, today Via Vittorio Emanuele (ancient street of Phoenician origin, connecting the acropolis and the Palazzo dei Normanni to the sea), about half of their length

The construction of the unusual garden, without a prominent building or building, and the monumental fountain were commissioned by Pedro Álvarez to the Florentine sculptor Francesco Camilliani, a pupil of Baccio Bandinelli, who worked there starting in 1554. The fountain included 48 statues and had unusual dimensions, not being destined to a public space, and it was faced by a long pergola formed by 90 wooden columns put in place under the supervision of Bartolomeo Ammannati.

Mondello is a neighborhood and tourist area of ​​Palermo that is part of the VIII District, enclosed by Monte Pellegrino and Monte Gallo. Detached from the city by the Parco della Favorita, it can be reached by means of the many royal tree-lined avenues or by secondary links. The area is renowned for its beach, which is one of the most coveted beaches in Sicily, for its numerous Art Nouveau villas, known as the best expression of Art Nouveau in Italy, and for sites of historical interest. It is home to the World Festival on the Beach. In this locality, in 1975 the Mondello Prize was born, a literary festival today organized by the Sicily Foundation together with the Turin International Book Fair.