The Palazzina Cinese, also known as Casina Cinese, is an ancient royal residence of the Bourbons of Naples, located in Palermo on the edge of the Favorita Park, on the border of the Monte Pellegrino Reserve.
It was built by Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia in 1799 on commission of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon who had bought a former companion of his from Macaluso a Chinese style wooden house together with land bordering some of the rooms. Marvuglia realized the work maintaining the oriental style: the central body ends at the top with a pagoda roof, supported by an octagonal drum. On the ground floor there are ogival arched porticoes and in the two sides there are turrets with helical open staircases by Giuseppe Patricolo. The construction presents curious elements: the bells of the entrance grille, the carved wooden beams of the terraces and the scallops.
The apartments are distributed on three floors. In the basement are the ballroom and the audience room.
