Quattro Canti, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Angel statue on a broken pediment above a window, in Quattro Canti, or Piazza Vigliena, a Baroque square in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The octagonal square is at the crossroads of Via Maqueda and the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, with 4 Baroque buildings, built 1608-20 by Giulio Lasso and Mariano Smiriglio. Palermo's Arab and Norman centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Angel statue on a broken pediment above a window, in Quattro Canti, or Piazza Vigliena, a Baroque square in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The octagonal square is at the crossroads of Via Maqueda and the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, with 4 Baroque buildings, built 1608-20 by Giulio Lasso and Mariano Smiriglio. Palermo's Arab and Norman centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen