Palermo - Piazzo Ruggero Settimo

At the junction with Via della Libertà, lies the Piazza Ruggero Settimo, named after the president of the short-lived Republic of Sicily of 1848. It is a focal point of city life, with the main bus station, banks, department stores, cinemas and hotels. Here stands the Politeama Garibaldi, built between 1867 and 1874 by Giuseppe Damaiani Almeyda, a building used for various cultural purposes with a front reminiscent of a Roman triumphal arch surmounted by a four-horse chariot in bronze, the work of Mario Rutelli (1874).