Palestro was an ironclad warship, the second and final member of the Principe Amedeo class, built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1860s and 1870s.

The last sail-rigged ironclad of the Italian fleet, she had a single steam engine that was capable of propelling the ship at a speed of slightly over 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph).

The ship was barque-rigged to supplement the steam engine; Palestro and her sister were the last rigged ironclads to be built by Italy.

Palestro was protected by iron belt armor that was 8.7 in (221 mm) thick and extended for the entire length of the hull.

[2] Obsolescent by the time she was completed, Palestro primarily served in the Italian colonial empire,[4] which Italy had begun acquiring in the 1880s.

[6] Also in that month, Palestro and the ironclad Roma took part in a naval demonstration off Ragusa in an attempt to force the Ottoman Empire to comply with the terms of the Treaty of Berlin and turn over the town of Ulcinj to Montenegro.