Gaetani Palace in Naro
Palazzo Gaetani in Naro is an eighteenth-century palace considered a baroque jewel of the Agrigento area.
The building belonged to the noble Gaetani family, of Neapolitan origins, whose history includes Pope Boniface VIII.
The building is on two floors overlooking an Italian garden.
The distinctive features of the exterior of Palazzo Gaetani are a very valuable balcony supported by human-shaped brackets and a large staircase. The brackets of the balcony depict four faces or masks that according to some scholars represent the four seasons, according to others the states of the human soul. The large external staircase from the twentieth century, in Art Nouveau style, punctuated by a riot of winged cast iron caryatids, the work of Ernesto Basile, father of Art Nouveau in Sicily.
Inside, there is a succession of rooms with Rococo, Empire and Art Nouveau furnishings: curtains, mirrors, sofas, furniture, chandeliers,... The vaults of the rooms are frescoed by Olivio Sozzi, and depict various stories inspired by classicism.
