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https://www.sicile-sicilia.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/porta-nuova-palerme-sicile_4290.jpg1200800The fortifications of Palermo have a very ancient history, dating back to the Punic-Roman walls that surrounded the Paleapolis and the Neapolis, the first urban nuclei of the city, and exploited the beds of the Kemonia and Papireto rivers as natural moats to improve the defense. Under Arab rule (9th–11th c.), the city was given […]