Maredolce
Maredolce , also called Castello or Palazzo di Maredolce or della Favara, was a castle of the Norman kings of Sicily in Palermo . It is located in Parco Vecchio, the older part of the royal park south of the medieval city .
The name Favara is derived from the Arabic word Fawwara , which means spring of water and refers to a spring near the castle. The name Maredolce (sweet sea), on the other hand, refers to a lake that was fed by this spring and therefore consisted of fresh water, in contrast to the nearby Tyrrhenian Sea . This man-made lake originally surrounded the castle on three sides.
literature
- Museum Without Borders (Ed.): Arab-Norman Art - Sicily's Culture in the Middle Ages . International cycle of exhibition streets Islamic Art in the Mediterranean, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Tübingen Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3803041023
- Hans-Rudolf Meier , The Norman Royal Palaces in Palermo. Studies on high medieval residential architecture , Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft Worms 1994, pp. 54–62, ISBN 3884629417
- Adolph Goldschmidt , Die Norman Königspaläste in Palermo , Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, Vol. 48, 1898, pp. 542–590 with illustrations on pages 56–59 in the atlas
Web links
- La Favara. (pdf, 1.7 MB) In: Palermo ei suoi giardini nell'età arabo normanna. Scuola Media "Falcone e Borsellino" Lascari, pp. 50-57 , accessed on March 26, 2009 (Italian).
Coordinates: 38 ° 5 '32.4 " N , 13 ° 23' 14.9" E