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Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri is a 14th-century fortified palace in Piazza Marina that served successively as a baronial residence, seat of the Spanish Inquisition, and now houses the University of Palermo's rectorate. Its painted wooden ceiling and Inquisition graffiti cells are haunting highlights.
The Chiaramonte family, barons of Modica, built the palace in 1307. After the Inquisition's abolition in 1782, the building became a courthouse and later university headquarters.