The Teatro al Massimo originally known as Cineteatro al Massimo is a theater in Palermo located in the historic center in the Seralcadio district.The name derives from the location of the theater which is located in the same square as the Teatro Massimo. The theater was designed by the architect Giovan Battista Santangelo, who came from the Basile school, and was completed in 1924. The patrons of the cineteatro were the Biondo family, the same clients of the homonymous theater, a bourgeois entrepreneurial family that animated the social life of the city between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The cineteatro saw its maximum splendor until the second. There is a clear inspiration to contemporary European themes especially Parisian, the style is that of Art Nouveau. The structure is quite simple in form, quadrangular base, the entrance is placed on a corner of the structure, echoing the simple form the windows placed on each side filled with a grid. Inside the audience is on two levels, the upper tribune consists of a fairly simple game of load-bearing beams that also recalls Art Nouveau. In the rotunda of the south or Pompeian room, the room originally reserved only for men, you can see a very particular resonance effect, specially obtained by the architect through a slight asymmetry of the room, such that those who are in the exact center of the room have the perception of hearing their voice amplified out of all proportion, while in the rest of the environment the resonance is enormous and such that it is impossible to understand from outside the rotunda what is...
Read moreTeatro storico panormita, che deve il suo nome, al sito parallelo, del famosissimo Teatro Massimo. Ambiente con riferimenti Liberty, lasciati alla loro allure vintage, da una direzione artistica di notevole importanza locale. Locandina dell'anno in corso, pregna di nomi importanti e conosciuti, che invogliano all'abbonamento, ma anche all'acquisto di biglietti fuori dallo stesso. Accoglienza e staff cassa, disponibili, preparati ma soprattutto gentile, i quali cercano di risolvere,con professionalità, qualsiasi richiesta del cliente. Capienza e sedute interne, molto comode e attraverso una visibilità ampiamente integrale. Rapporto qualità prezzo ottimo, ovviamente in linea con il range dei pari del settore, nazionali. Riconfermato abbonamento, per la nuova...
Read moreI already visited it last year, and I came back, it’s a beautiful place, the biggest of Italy, 3rd biggest from Europe, the inside is incredible, just get a ticket at the desk to have a tour, they have different language speaking guide and the...
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