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'It's pure beauty' – Italy's largest medieval mosaics restored

• pseudolus 2y ago
  Wikipedia entry in English - with a gallery of photos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monreale_Cathedral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monreale_Cathedral Wikipedia entry in Italian - longer description and more photos: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duomo_di_Monreale https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duomo_di_Monreale Official website of cathedral in Italian but with suprisingly little information: http://www.monrealeduomo.it/ http://www.monrealeduomo.it/
• thefz 2y ago
  Too bad it's in Sicily, where everything goes to shit given enough (short) time
  • skyyler 2y ago
    There's already plans for more restoration work done - are you Sicilian? Can you share with us knowledge of things in Sicily going to shit?
    • thefz 2y ago
      > Can you share with us knowledge of things in Sicily going to shit? Some 20% sunken economy, country top 5 for tax evasion, country record for unemployment, country record for illegal work, country negative record for education... shall I go on and add that on top of this everything is managed by organized crime?