Description
Via Ruggero Settimo is one of Palermo's main streets: about 350 meters of stores and palaces between Via della Libertà and Via Maqueda, in the 19th-century center. With nearby Via Principe di Belmonte and Via Magliocco it is considered the city's living room.
Halfway along, the crossing with Via Mariano Stabile forms the Quattro Canti di Campagna, named to tell them apart from the Quattro Canti in the old city, farther along the same line. Facing it are the Siciliano, Santo Stefano della Cerda and Notarbartolo di Villarosa palaces, the last two by Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia.
The street was opened in the second half of the 18th century as an extension of Via Maqueda, at the wish of the praetor, the Marquis of Regalmici. It is named after Ruggero Settimo, head of the revolutionary government of 1848. It once had Palermo's most luxurious stores; on Sundays it is pedestrian-only.
Halfway along, the crossing with Via Mariano Stabile forms the Quattro Canti di Campagna, named to tell them apart from the Quattro Canti in the old city, farther along the same line. Facing it are the Siciliano, Santo Stefano della Cerda and Notarbartolo di Villarosa palaces, the last two by Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia.
The street was opened in the second half of the 18th century as an extension of Via Maqueda, at the wish of the praetor, the Marquis of Regalmici. It is named after Ruggero Settimo, head of the revolutionary government of 1848. It once had Palermo's most luxurious stores; on Sundays it is pedestrian-only.