Villa Trabia

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Villa Trabia is and a historic villa in Palerm built in the eighteenth century by Ignatius Lucchesi Palli, Prince of Campofranco. In 1814 Joseph Lanza Branciforte, Prince of Trabia and Butera bought the villa and garden.The villa includes a small park and seventeenth and eighteenth century buildings. The building of classical style and a large central body consist of two levels and two wings, which enclose a small courtyard in the center of which is the entrance. The villa houses a branch of the town of Palermo public library. The park is divided into two parts, cut in two by a natural gradient (with the old "pirri, limestone quarries), which now houses a road, the two sections of the park are connected by a bridge of Baroque style, inside it are the old greenhouses and a large fountain