Via Dell' Arsenale
Palermo
Palermo, PA, Italy
Highlights
Maritime museum with scale ship models, cannons, and naval history
Palermo, PA, Italy Get directions
Maritime museum with scale ship models, cannons, and naval history
Palermo, PA, Italy Get directions
"At the heart of Palermo's port, the Bourbon Arsenal bears the coat of arms of Spain's King Philip IV, who commissioned it as a shipbuilding factory in 1630. Naval ships were made here for centuries; Horatio Nelson even lived in the arsenal for a time around 1800. The restored building is now a maritime history museum, displaying intricate scale models of galley ships, along with cannons and other maritime artifacts."
