Our day in Palermo also included a visit to the Fountain Pretoria.  Although you can no longer enter the area of the fountain, I was still able to stand on the edges of the fence to grab a few photos.  I found this information on the travelplan website :   “Fontana Pretoria is a wonderful sixteenth-century fountain that can be found in the center of the square carrying the same name. It was built by the Florentine sculptor Francesco Camilliani, and originally decorated the garden of a villa in Tuscany. It was then purchased by the city of Palermo, dismantled and rebuilt in Piazza Pretoria. The fencing around the fountain, designed by Giovan Battista Basile, was built in 1858.”

Here are a few photos . . .

We also did a quick walk through Quattro Canti.  Since I can not actually describe the history as well as Wikipedia, I’ve included their description : “The piazza is octagonal four sides being the streets, and the remaining four sides are Baroque buildings the near identical facades of which contain fountains with statues of the four seasons, the four Spanish kings of Sicily, and of the patronesses of Palermo, (Cristina, Ninfa, Olivia, and Agata). The facades onto the interchange are curved, and rise to four floors; the fountains rise to the height of the second floor, the third and fourth floors contain the statues in niches. At the time the piazza was built, it was one of the first major examples of town planning in Europe.”