The beauty and vitality of Palermo never fail to seduce the visitor! The Sicilian capital can be discovered from street to street, from day to day. Such a city cannot be reduced to an image, an angle, a shot. One should be able to capture the movement, the life, the smells, the sounds or the warmth of the Sicilian capital. For, far from the "museum cities" like Florence, Rome or Venice, lovers of Italy will find in Palermo the most authentic and best preserved echoes of the popular life of yesteryear. A fourteenth-century Arab writer wrote: "Palermo is dirty and enchanting like a puff from a hashish pipe. »More than ever in love with paradoxes, the Palermo of the 21st century does not seem to have changed: superb, but bruised by the ravages of the last war, respecting the death that it plasters on its dilapidated walls, but teeming with life in its working-class neighbourhoods, even in its baroque delirium. You may love it or hate it, but it will never leave you indifferent.With its 80 churches, its 50 palaces, its 720,000 inhabitants, its anarchic urbanization, its traffic jams, its garbage exposed to the sun, its delinquency, it is a city with a dazzling symbolic violence, always surprising and so fascinating! The still virgin interstices of the city's outskirts have been overtaken by a greenery that occupies all the spaces: pavement edges, squares, facades of houses and buildings, the whole transforming the most important Sicilian metropolis into a real urban jungle in the literal as well as the figurative sense of the word... Scaffolding and tarpaulins still cover many buildings of the main arteries and of the Kalsa district. The city is getting a makeover. No doubt we will be even more seduced by it! In 2018, Palermo was the Italian Capital of Culture.

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Golfe de Palerme vu du monte Pellegrino. Author's Image
Chiesa San Giovanni degli Eremiti. Picsofitalia.com
Intérieur de l'église San Mamiliano. Apollon - Iconotec
Place des Quattro canti. Apollon - Iconotec
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