Piazza Marina
1400
Vernacular
landscape
The largest open space in the historic center of Palermo, Piazza Marina occupies the site of the medieval harbor basin that was filled and paved beginning in the 14th century. The piazza is organized around a garden of mature Ficus trees…
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Timeline
- 1861-1864
Basile laid out the enclosed garden at the center of the square between 1861 and 1864, a quadrangular plot with gates aligned on the streets that feed into it and a cast iron railing made to his design by the Fonderia Oretea. The ficus…
Giovanni Battista Filippo Basile
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