The historic Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi in the heart of Palermo’s Piazza Croce dei Vespri was a magnificent monument to high-baroque Sicilian opulence. Famed throughout the world as the filming location for Luchino Visconti’s cinematic masterpiece *The Leopard*, the eighteenth-century palace was illuminated tonight with thousands of beeswax candles burning in colossal Murano crystal chandeliers, gilded rococo mirrors, and priceless Flemish tapestries. The armored motorcade had departed Taormina under heavy tactical escort,…
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