La Palazzina Cinese, un prezioso tesoro d’Oriente in Sicilia - The Palazzina Cinese, a precious Oriental treasure in Sicily
La Palazzina Cinese, un prezioso tesoro d’Oriente in Sicilia.
Un piccolo mondo orientale sorge all’interno del parco della Favorita di Palermo.
The Palazzina Cinese, a precious Oriental treasure in Sicily.
A small oriental world rises inside the Favorita Park of Palermo.The Palazzina Cinese was built by Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia in 1799 at the behest of King Ferdinand III of Bourbon. A refuge where he could stay, together with his wife Maria Carolina, during the Napoleonic advance.
The Palazzina Cinese, also called Real Casina Cinese, represents the only meeting point between neoclassicism and the romantic call of the East in the history of Palermo's architecture.
Inside there are the exotic decorations that characterize it. They vary from the "Chinese" style, to Turkish, but also to Pompeian and Neoclassical.
The decorations were made by the best painters of the period in Palermo and Nea- politan artists: from the famous Giuseppe Velasco and Elia Interguglielmi, to Vin- cenzo Riolo, Rosario Silvestri, Raimondo Gioia, Giuseppe Patania and Benedetto Cotardi, the latter an adornist painter of Neapolitan origins very active in Palermo in the last thirty years of the eighteenth century.
The square-shaped building extends over three floors, plus a basement. The cen- tral body ends at the top with a pagoda roof, supported by an octagonal drum.On the ground floor there are arched ogival porticoes and in the two sides there are tur- rets with open helicoidal staircases, work of Giuseppe Patricolo.
Inside the Palazzina Cinese there are curious elements that embellish the structure: the bells of the entrance grille, the carved wooden beams of the terraces and the scallops. The apartments are distributed on three floors.
In the ballroom and meeting room, there are the fantastic decorations of Velasco. On the second floor, which is accessed by an external staircase, are the reception hall in Chinese style with fabric panels also painted by Riolo, the dining room with the ingenious "mathematical table" of Marvuglia and the king's bedroom with the vaulted ceiling painted in Chinese style.
On the second floor was the apartment of Queen Maria Carolina with two reception rooms and the bedroom with the dressing room. On the last level there was a large octagonal terrace covered with a pagoda with a decorated ceiling.
To enrich every single room there are wonderful eclectic furniture. Some obviously inspired by China, others of classical antiquity related to the discoveries of the ar- chaeological excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii promoted by the Sovereign.
From the Chinese Palace, moreover, you can enjoy a magnificent view because the building is surrounded by a large garden in which there is, among other things, a building that houses the Ethnographic Museum Giuseppe Pitrè.
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