{"id":6868,"date":"2025-08-14T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/art-style\/villa-palagonia-bagheria-palermo\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:59:54","slug":"villa-palagonia-bagheria-palermo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/en\/art-style\/villa-palagonia-bagheria-palermo\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Palagonia Bagheria (PA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-incipit\">In Bagheria, a baroque villa considered at the time of the Grand Tour the \u201cmost original place in the world and famous throughout Europe\u201d for its characteristic walls populated by hundreds of fantastic characters and a magnificent ballroom with a vaulted mirror ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Located in the center of <strong>Bagheria<\/strong>, a municipality in the province of Palermo, also known as <strong>\u201cthe city of villas\u201d<\/strong>, Villa Palagonia became famous already in the 18th century thanks to the visit of illustrious guests, including <strong>Goethe<\/strong> who visited it in 1787 and wrote about it in his famous <em>Journey to Italy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many other artists were influenced by its beauty and eccentricity, such as <strong>Salvador Dal\u00ec <\/strong>and <strong>Renato Guttuso<\/strong> who lived nearby and used to go there to play.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"double\">\r\n  \t<figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets272-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets272-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets272-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets272-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets272-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets272.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>        \r\n    <\/figure>\r\n    <figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets227-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets227-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets227-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets227-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets227-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets227.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>    <\/figure>   \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Look at yourself in those crystals and in the same singular magnificence contemplate the image expressed by mortal frailty. (Inscription at the entrance to the villa&#8217;s hall)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Its construction began in <strong>1715<\/strong> at the behest of <strong>Don Ferdinando Gravina and Crujllas<\/strong>, <strong>IV Prince of Palagonia<\/strong>, peer of the kingdom, knight of the Golden Fleece, a prestigious honor awarded by the kings of Spain, and the Dominican friar Tommaso Maria Napoli, assistant architect of the Senate of Palermo, was commissioned with the help of the Sicilian architect Agatino Daidone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>1749<\/strong>, his <strong>nephew Francesco Ferdinando Gravina and Alliata<\/strong>, <strong>VI Prince of Palagonia<\/strong>, further modified Villa Palagonia by adding the decorations and interior and exterior furnishings that made his residence in Bagheria known throughout the world as the \u201cVilla of Monsters\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure>\r\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets193-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets193-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets193-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets193-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets193-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets193.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>        \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<p>The external walls and the lower bodies are, in fact, decorated with statues in \u201ctuff stone from Aspra\u201d, depicting <strong>fantastic animals<\/strong>, <strong>anthropomorphic figures<\/strong>, statues of ladies and knights, musicians and various caricatures and by a particular double-flight staircase, under the sumptuous princely coat of arms of the Gravina family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main floor is accessed from an elliptical vestibule frescoed with scenes depicting the<strong> labors of Hercules<\/strong>, in homage to the new taste of the late eighteenth century, by Salvatore Gravina, successor of his half-brother Francesco Ferdinando II.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure>\r\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets244-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets244-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets244-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets244-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets244-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Villa-Palagonia-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets244.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>        \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<p>To its right we find the famous<strong> \u201cGallery or Hall of Mirrors\u201d<\/strong>, with the ceiling entirely covered with mirrors, with paintings depicting a balustrade with the sky and fantastic birds above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The walls of this large room are adorned with very fine <strong>marbles<\/strong>, with <strong>colored glass <\/strong>and <strong>marble high reliefs <\/strong>representing the founder of the villa and the nephew who commissioned the \u201cmonsters\u201d with their respective wives, ancestors of the Gravina family and of illustrious personalities of the reigning houses of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"double\">\r\n  \t<figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7309-3-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7309-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7309-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7309-3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7309-3-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7309-3.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>        \r\n    <\/figure>\r\n    <figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7321-3-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7321-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7321-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7321-3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7321-3-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7321-3.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>    <\/figure>   \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<p>From the oval entrance hall you can also reach the<strong> private apartments<\/strong> of the villa, which today can only be visited with guided tours, which consist of a series of rooms arranged in \u201cenfilade\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>1885<\/strong> the villa was purchased by the <strong>Castronovo family <\/strong>who still today, thanks to their heirs, makes it possible to visit one of the most extraordinary monuments of European Baroque civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Secret<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the many legends about him, Francesco Ferdinando Gravina e Alliata was a skilled man who held various prestigious institutional positions. Therefore, the curious decorations of the villa seem to be due to a cultured and precise alchemical matrix typical of the 18th century with various symbols, such as for example the search for harmony starting from music (Nigredo) up to matter (Rubedo).<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n<section class=\"photos mb-4 mb-md-5\">\r\n   \t                \t\t\t\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kalamo-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets153-2-1.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery\" data-caption=\"Villa Palagonia Bagheria (PA)\">\r\n       \t<figure>\r\n          \t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kalamo-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets153-2-1-526x500.jpg\" class=\"attachment-img526x500 size-img526x500\" alt=\"Villa Palagonia Bagheria (PA)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kalamo-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets153-2-1-526x500.jpg 526w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kalamo-Bagheria-Sicilia-Secrets153-2-1-674x640.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/>                    \t\r\n    \t<\/figure>                                        \r\n    <\/a>\r\n                          \r\n                    \t\t\t\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7321-3.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery\" data-caption=\"Villa Palagonia Bagheria (PA)\">\r\n       \t<figure>\r\n          \t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7321-3-526x500.jpg\" class=\"attachment-img526x500 size-img526x500\" alt=\"Villa Palagonia Bagheria (PA)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7321-3-526x500.jpg 526w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DSF7321-3-674x640.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/>              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