On one morning in the mid 11th Century, Norman Knights under Count <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger_de_Hautville&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger de Hautville (page does not exist)">Roger de Hautville</a>, brother of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Guiscard&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Guiscard (page does not exist)">Robert Guiscard</a> who already ruled much of Italy south of Naples, camped on these hills surrounding Palermo, then a Saracen city. With a Papal banner flying, the knights rode though the orange groves and pleasure gardens of the city to take control of Palermo and then all Sicily. There then began a period of rare, enlightened government in Medieval history when Christians, both Latins and Byzantine Orthodox, and Muslims lived in relative peace on their island in the sun.<br>The Gulf of Palermo
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