Location: Cefalu in Italy
Nearest Airport:
Palermo at 100
Kilometres
Nearest Beach:
beach at 100.0
Metres
Car: recommended
Cefalù (Sicilian: Cifalù, Greek: Diod., Strabo Ptol.; Latin: Cephaloedium, or Cephaloedis, Pliny) is a city and comune in the province of Palermo, located on the northern coast of Sicily, Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea about 75 km east from the provincial capital and 185 km west of Messina. The town is one of the major tourist attractions in the region.
The Cathedral, begun in 1131, in a style of Norman architecture which would be more accurately called Sicilian Romanesque. The exterior is well preserved, and is largely decorated with interlacing pointed arches; the windows also are pointed. On each side of the façade is a massive tower of four storeys. The round-headed Norman portal is worthy of note. A semi-circular apse is set into the east end wall. Its strengthening counter forts that work like buttresses, are shaped as paired columns to lighten their aspect.