Lovely square with Fontana Pretoria , near Quattro Canti and Chiesa di S.Cataldo

One of the best of the town, the square is surrounded by excellent buildings: the town hall (XV-XIX century) two baroque churches and several ancient buildings. The fountain (XVII century) is fantastic.

I walked past this piazza a few times without even realising it was significant. The fountain is all fenced off to the point where you can barely see the thing, there are weeds growing all around it, and many of the buildings around it are derelict and boarded up.

the fountain actually belonged to some noble spanish who was immersed by debts and then sold it to the city of Palermo. the fountain was then disassembled into 644 pieces!! however some pieces went missing or broke during transport.
The fountain rotates around a central basin surrounded by four bridges, stairways and consists of three concentric tanks from which water is poured from the top by a statue of Bacchus. the other statues represent the gods of Olimpus. and the waterways represent the rivers of palermo.
it is like visiting olympus on earth!!