Italy Guide
Sicily
Galleria Regionale
Address: Via Alloro 4
Opening time: Tues– Fri 9am–1pm & 2–7pm, Sat– Mon 9am–1pm
Price: €6
Sicily's Galleria Regionale is a stunning medieval art collection. Inside, there's a simple split: sculpture downstairs, and paintings upstairs, the one exception being a magnificent fifteenth-century fresco, the Triumph of Death, displayed in the former chapel, coating an entire wall. The other masterpiece on the ground floor is a calm, perfectly studied, white marble bust of Eleanora of Aragon by the fifteenth-century artist Francesco Laurana. Upstairs there are thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Sicilian works, Byzantine in style, and a fine collection of works by Antonello da Messina (1430–79), including three small portraits of Sts Gregory, Jerome and Augustine and a celebrated Annunciation.