Villa Zito, Picture gallery in Via della Libertà, Palermo, Italy

Villa Zito is a picture gallery housed in an 18th-century palace on Via della Libertà in Palermo. The building contains over one thousand artworks focusing on Sicilian artistic production from the 17th to the 20th century.

The site held a large semirural house owned by Gaspare Scicli in the first half of the 18th century; the chapel and its decorations date to 1762. In the 19th century the property passed to Antonio La Grua, prince of Carini. Merchant Francesco Zito Scalici bought it in 1909 and had it refurbished and expanded in Neo-Renaissance style to designs by architect Michele La Cavera. The Banco di Sicilia acquired it in the 1920s.

The name comes from Francesco Zito Scalici, the merchant who bought the palace in 1909 and had it rebuilt in Neo-Renaissance style. Since 2015 the Fondazione Sicilia has used it to show its painting collection, with over three hundred works on about one thousand square metres, from 17th-century masters to 19th-century Sicilian landscape painters.

Villa Zito stands at Via della Libertà 52, on Palermo's main north-south avenue, reachable by the city buses that run along it. The picture gallery occupies about one thousand square metres on the palace's display floors, with more than three hundred works arranged in a route through the rooms. The Fondazione Sicilia's archaeological, numismatic and philatelic collections are not here but at Palazzo Branciforte in the historic centre, so plan a separate visit for them.

The palace holds frescoes by Gaspard Dughet, a French-born landscape painter linked to Nicolas Poussin's circle. The picture gallery opened in 2015 after architect Corrado Anselmi reorganised the spaces, showing more than three hundred works across about one thousand square metres. The archaeological, numismatic and philatelic collections moved to Palazzo Branciforte that same year.