Piazza Due Palme
The Piazza Due Palme is a place west of the Via Roma in Palermo, which runs in north-south direction . Via Monteleone , which leads to the northwest, branches off from here.
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The triangular square was created as part of the construction of Via Roma, which connects the main train station with poorer districts in the north of the city. Like many other building projects, the Via Roma was laid out after the Risorgimento , with many smaller streets having to give way. Representative palazzi were built along the new boulevards, and the traffic areas to the older streets were converted into squares. So also the Piazza Due Palme, which was the location of two palm trees from the beginning .
Adjacent to the north is the Palazzo Credito Italiano , to the south, older buildings, some of which are from the Renaissance . The modern shopping center of the department store chain La Rinascente is on the opposite side of the street . The square has a bus stop in Via Roma, which is named after the more important Piazza San Domenico diagonally opposite, but structurally there is no space there.
literature
- Mario Giorgianni: Il taglio di via Roma (= La memoria illustrata. 2). Sellerio, Palermo 2000, ISBN 88-7681-132-X , p. 28.
- Renato Zappulla: L'Architettura a Palermo dal 1860 al 1930. Stass, Palermo 1981.
Coordinates: 38 ° 7 '8.8 " N , 13 ° 21' 43.8" E