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Palazzo Francavilla has its entrance on Via Ruggiero Settimo and overlooks Piazza Verdi in front of the Massimo theater. Built in 1783 in the Palermo countryside, it has two specific features: it benefited from the urban expansion of the city carried out in 1778 and was purchased in 1801 by Saverio Oneto and Gravina Duca di Sperlinga, aristocratic nobleman of the time. To redo the facade of the building and give the final layout of the interior, Luigi Majorca and Mortillaro Conte di Francavilla, heir of the Dukes of Sperlinga, in 1893 called Ernesto Basile, already known for having collaborated with his father G. Battista Filippo in the construction of the Theater Massimo. The great opportunity that is offered to the visitors of the noble storey of this important historic residence is to breathe both the cultural atmosphere that was lived in Palermo in the eighteenth century and that experienced in the Liberty period.
