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Corvaja Palace

Italy · 14th century

Founded
c. 1375
Location
Taormina
Coordinates
37.85394°, 15.28848°
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Corvaja Palace in Italy
Photo: Giovanni Dall'Orto · Attribution · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Palazzo Corvaja (sometimes spelt Palazzo Corvaia) is a medieval palace in Taormina, Sicily, Italy. It was principally built at the end of the 14th century and is named after one of the oldest and most prominent families of Taormina, which owned it from 1538 to 1945.

On four main floors and constructed around a courtyard, the Catalan Gothic palazzo is crenellated. The principal floor has fenestration of pairs of lancet windows divided by columns. The courtyard walls are decorated by reliefs illustrating The Creation.

Arab Tower in the Palazzo Corvaja: The tower was incorporated into other parts of the building from the end of the AD 13th century. Today the palazzo is used as an exhibition centre.

Text adapted from “Palazzo Corvaja” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Corvaja Palace ranks #2,580 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #197 of the 555 mapped in Italy. Founded c. 1375, it is older than 53% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 758 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 14,811 times in the last 60 days, more than 96% of the atlas. It is one of the 32 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Sicily. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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