What Every Traveler Should Know: Piazza Pretoria Palermo, Sicily
Francesco Camilliani, a Florentine sculptor, created the fountain in 1554 for the garden of Don Luigi Toledo, the father-in-law of Cosimo I de Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany. In 1574, the Toledo family sold it to the Palermitan Senate to settle their debts. Piazza Pretoria, or the Square of Shame to Palermitans, gets its…