Palermo's black saint, the son of African slaves, painted on a wall in the city's most multicultural district.
Distance
Area
Ballarò / Albergheria
Visit
10 min
Entry
Free entry
The story
A work by Igor Scalisi Palminteri, a Palermo artist who has made the reworking of sacred iconography his language. The mural depicts San Benedetto il Moro, son of African slaves, born at San Fratello in 1524 and later a Franciscan friar in Palermo, where he is co-patron of the city. Its placement in Ballarò, a district with a large migrant population, makes the work a precise statement.