The seventeenth-century convent of Sant’Antonino is a treasure chest that holds four centuries of religious and secular history, a stone’s throw from Palermo Central Station. The former convent, acquired by the University in 2004 and inaugurated in 2012, preserves the rooms and machinery dedicated to the production of bread, finds of industrial archaeology whose pearl is the gigantic mill in solid wood that has been preserved almost intact. In the early twentieth century, the convent was transformed into a "subsistence barracks" and heavily modified to be adapted to its new use. In the rooms that had once housed the friars, bread was produced for half a century for the military throughout Sicily.