Grand Hotel Piazza Borsa

We do not believe we can imagine a structure that embodies the idea of ​​"living in the center" more than our Grande Albergo Piazza Borsa. The central nucleus had been the convent and the great church of the Fathers of Mercy. Of that time it remains today almost unchanged, the cloister with the bold verticalisms of the portico and the door of the old convent. The latter surmounted by the effigy that the Fathers of Mercy chose as a symbol of their mission: the Pellicano who takes his little one. In the first half of the eighteenth century, the increased prestige of the monks brought them as a dowry the adjacent palace of the princes Cattolica Briuccia. The distance between the two buildings was filled by three stone bridges, about twenty meters long, each one supported by elegant columns of gray marble "Billiemi". The bridges are still famous today in Palermo, like the "Passetti" of Palazzo Briuccia. In place of the church, the architect Ernesto Basile erected, also incorporating part of the square in front, the representative structures of the "Cassa Centrale di Risparmio Vittorio Emanuele". The building was inaugurated in 1912. As for us, the "new" monumental seat has come to our days almost intact; a jewel of the European Art Noveau. Content provided by the structure. The accuracy of the information is the sole responsibility of the structure.