Asmundo Palace Museum
The construction of this building dates back to 1615. It was started by a certain Doctor Baliano, on the ancient " street of the Cassaro " (today Corso Vittorio Emanuele, the most important axis of the city from which the narrow streets aligned orthogonally in the Phoenician and Roman period departed) after the enlargement and rectification, which took place in 1567 at the behest of the Viceroy Garçia de Toledo. Only in 1767 the building was completed: "Compita saw the noble house of the cassaro of Giuseppe Asmundo" so says the Marquis of Villabianca in "The Palermo of today".
Interesting and varied is the collection of devotional and census tiles, full of history and iconographic messages, linked to the most venerated Saints of Sicily. There is also a rich collection of porcelain, for the most part nineteenth-century. Palazzo Asmundo also has a collection of different types of weapons, including auction weapons, barrel weapons, cannons, rifles of various types, pistols and revolvers, powder flasks, shields and various tools. Interesting and of high artistic level is the collection of postcards.
