San Giovanni degli Eremiti is a former monastic church in Palermo, about two blocks south of the Palazzo dei Normanni. A Benedictine monastery stood on the site before the 6th century, and after the Norman conquest, around 1136, Roger II of Sicily restored it to monks of Saint William of Vercelli. The infobox gives completion as 1132, a date the text does not reconcile.
The infobox lists Arab-Norman and Romanesque styles, and the text stresses Arab influence. The plan is a Latin cross with a nave, two aisles and three apses, with a dome over each square bay and over the presbytery. The article names no architect, materials or dimensions.
The red domes are not original. Giuseppe Patricolo painted them in his 19th-century restoration after finding remnants of red plaster. The cloister is the best preserved part of the monastery. UNESCO listed it in 2015 with Arab-Norman Palermo.
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