Palazzo Conte Federico, 17th-century palace in Palermo, Italy

Palazzo Conte Federico is a 17th-century palace between Via dei Biscottari and Piazza Conte Federico in Palermo. Its 12th-century Arab-Norman Torre Busuemi, also called Torre di Scrigno, stands on the Punic city wall and incorporates the old Porta Busuemi; it bears two mullioned windows, one Norman and one Aragonese, and the city's Swabian and Aragonese coats of arms. Inside, a courtyard carved in stone by Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia in 1750 leads via a red marble staircase to the piano nobile.

The Federico family acquired the palace in the mid-17th century when Gaspare Federico e Balsamo, count of San Giorgio, bought the hospice of Porta Busuemi from the Olivetan Fathers of Santa Maria dello Spasimo. He gave the building its present form, and his heir Nicolò Federico e Opezzinga later commissioned many of its decorations. The 12th-century Arab-Norman tower, called Torre Busuemi or Torre di Scrigno, stands on the Punic wall and incorporates the old Porta Busuemi.

The name Busuemi comes from the Arabic Bab el Soudan, the Gate of the Blacks, the old city gate the tower still encloses. Inside, the ballroom gallery holds a grand piano that Wagner played in 1882 during a stay in Palermo. The rooms keep original furniture, arms and antique ceramics collected by the Federico counts.

The palace is entered from the inner courtyard, decorated in carved stone by Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia in 1750, and a red marble staircase leads up to the piano nobile. The rooms are still lived in by Count Alessandro Federico, so visits follow the family's own arrangement of the halls.

A piano in the dance hall was played by composer Richard Wagner during his visit in 1882 and has remained part of the original furnishings ever since. This instrument stands as a tangible connection to a famous artist who passed through Palermo during his later years.