Las obras en hierro en las villas y en los jardines de la Palermo Liberty.

Abstract

Iron, emblematic material of era’s technological innovation, enriches the gentle urban scene of Palermo Liberty, offering its large ductility even for the construction of structures adorning villas and public or private gardens. The contribution is the result of a study carried out at the Department of Architecture of the Polytechnic School of the University of Palermo, aimed at identifying, reviewing and cataloging the works of iron architecture made in Palermo at the turn of the century, with particular reference to pavilions, greenhouses, gazebos, winter gardens, still present in the green areas of Palermo’s urban fabric; heavenly corners that preserve the atmosphere of the time they were born, carrying away, even for a few minutes, to the extraordinary period that saw Palermo one of the most representative cities of the Belle Époque.