# Palermo

> Arab-Norman See · EST. 1185 · BUILT ON A BASILICA

Raised in 1185 on the site of a Byzantine basilica. The Bureau files the building under continuous occupancy and declines to date the foundations. The church was built by a Norman archbishop for a Norman king, in a city that had been Arab within living memory, and it shows all three in the same elevation. Later centuries added what they had. The Bureau has given up separating the layers and now records the building as a single entry, which is how it is seen.

## Sourced figures

- **founded**: 1185, raised in 1185 by Walter Ophamil, Norman archbishop of Palermo — source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_Cathedral (consulted 21/08/2026)

## Reference image

- print: Palermo. Cattedrale (acquaforte)
- by: Gilio, E. Rouargue
- held by: Wikimedia Commons
- licence: CC0
- file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palermo._Cattedrale_(acquaforte).jpg

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