Via Alloro
Besides Abatellis Palace, other old buildings, both religious and civilian, lean on this old street. Out of the Museum, going up the street, you can see on the left the side of St. Mary of Angels church’s (called “Gancia’s of Franciscans”), built in 1485 as city home of the Reformed Observant Friars of St. Francis. The readjustments suffered by the building since the XVI century didn’t anyway wrench the original arrangement with one aisle. The church keeps paintings by Pietro Novelli («St. Peter of Alcantara»-4th chapel on the left), Antonello Crescenzio («Madonna of Montserrat»-2nd chapel on the right), Vincenzo da Pavia («Nativity» 2nd chapel on the left; «The Virgin’s Wewdding»-chapel on the left in the transept); two panels by Antonello Gagini («Jesus in the limbo» and «St. Michael»-penultimate chapel on the left), stuccoes by Giacomo Serpotta (chapel on the left in the transept) and by his son Procopio (last chapel on the left). Back in via Alloro, going up for a short way, on the right you can see the front of Cefalà Palace, of late-Gothic origin and, opposite, the XVIII century Castel di Mirto Bonagia Palace, seriously damaged during the war, of which the magnificent staircase of approach still remains. Going on, you meet first the small “Croce dei Vespri” square with Gangi Palace, the St. Anne plane, with the homonimous church with the wavy latebaroque front and Convent with the wide cloister with arcade.

Reference text:
Chirco Adriana, Palermo La città ritrovata: venti itinerari entro le mura, Palermo1997