must see, and around our area
Everything Else
Super central, and yet so pieceful. From here, you can reach the main sites on foot, and when you go home you feel like royalty, living inside one of these monuments, and such a beautiful one
Via Lungarini, 60
Super central, and yet so pieceful. From here, you can reach the main sites on foot, and when you go home you feel like royalty, living inside one of these monuments, and such a beautiful one
Visite turistiche
the 'centre of the centre', a monumental crossing built by the Spanish rulers in the year 1600 when they cut the main road, corso vittorio emanuele, with via maqueda. They made it in baroque style to show off their power. It is also symbolic of power, therefore at midday the sun is exactly there in the middle, and this is why this place, the four corners, deviding the city in 4 areas, is also called teatro del sole, the sun theatre
Quattro Canti
Via Maquedathis is a must see
Fontana Pretoria
Piazza PretoriaA Norman church refurbished many times in other periods. It looks baroque outside but once you get in you'll find the most stunning and precious bizantine mosaics of the Norman period. This church is a must see in Palermo, together with the other two in the same piazza!
342 locals recommend
Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (La Martorana)
3 Piazza BelliniA Norman church refurbished many times in other periods. It looks baroque outside but once you get in you'll find the most stunning and precious bizantine mosaics of the Norman period. This church is a must see in Palermo, together with the other two in the same piazza!
Another must see in Palermo, a Norman church, next to the luxuriant church Martorana, this is smaller and very simple, because it does not contain mosaics (as it was unfinished) and it was the private chapel of a private palazzo. What is particularly valuable here is the floor. But the outside architecture is very beautiful and so typical of Palermo, with its pink, 'arabic' domes, also found in other Norman churches in Palermo and Sicily. They are due to the strong tardition of the arabic population, and in particular, their builders, overcome, but not underestimated when it came to building and other cultural fields, by the Normans.
105 locals recommend
Church of San Cataldo
1 Piazza BelliniAnother must see in Palermo, a Norman church, next to the luxuriant church Martorana, this is smaller and very simple, because it does not contain mosaics (as it was unfinished) and it was the private chapel of a private palazzo. What is particularly valuable here is the floor. But the outside architecture is very beautiful and so typical of Palermo, with its pink, 'arabic' domes, also found in other Norman churches in Palermo and Sicily. They are due to the strong tardition of the arabic population, and in particular, their builders, overcome, but not underestimated when it came to building and other cultural fields, by the Normans.
If one was in Palermo only one day, they had to visit the quattro canti, the fontana pretoria, the 2 Norman churches of Martorana and San Cataldo, and then this amazing Baroque church, chosen here among a hundred, for its great beauty, as well as its proximity to the other sites I have just quoted! All of these sites are next to one another and they'll give you an idea of a very complex city, its history and architecture!
89 locals recommend
Church of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
1 Piazza BelliniIf one was in Palermo only one day, they had to visit the quattro canti, the fontana pretoria, the 2 Norman churches of Martorana and San Cataldo, and then this amazing Baroque church, chosen here among a hundred, for its great beauty, as well as its proximity to the other sites I have just quoted! All of these sites are next to one another and they'll give you an idea of a very complex city, its history and architecture!
one, the liveliest and larger, of our famous, historical open-air food markets!
188 locals recommend
Ballarak
20 Via Saladinoone, the liveliest and larger, of our famous, historical open-air food markets!
Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
Piazza San FrancescoOratorio di San Lorenzo
5 Via ImmacolatellaMuseo Palazzo Mirto House Museum
2 Via MerloPalazzo Chiaramonte
60 Piazza MarinaPalazzo Abatellis
4 Via AlloroPalazzo Butera
2 Via DammuselliThe Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum
5 P.za Antonio PasqualinoMagione's Cloister
44 Via MagioneSanta Maria Dello Spasimo
15 Via Dello SpasimoVilla Giulia
Via LincolnBotanical Garden
2 Via LincolnKalsa
Rooms at the Museum of majolica Genius
11 Via Giuseppe GaribaldiPalazzo Valguarnera-Gangi
6 Piazza Croce dei VespriPalazzo Ajutamicristo
23 Via Giuseppe Garibalditraditional trattorias
you have to queue here but it is going to be fun! And then the food will be a proper class on Palermo popular cousine
Ferro di Cavallo
20 Via VeneziaCasa del Brodo dal Dottore
175 Via Vittorio EmanueleBisso Bistrot
172A Via MaquedaBuatta Cucina Popolana
176 Via Vittorio Emanueleevening bars
good for breakfast and lunch too.
it is very local and has seats outside as well as inside. half a minute from the house!
Bar Garibaldi
46 Via Alessandro PaternostroSt'orto
31 Discesa dei GiudiciArrè Gusto
45 Via Alessandro PaternostroBotteghe Colletti
77 Via Alessandro PaternostroFerramenta
8 Piazza Giovanni Meliits local, its cool, its warm, it has nice seats outside in the small piazza. good for breakfast too
Chimica 40 Drinks & Records
1 Piazza Cattolicaits local, its cool, its warm, it has nice seats outside in the small piazza. good for breakfast too
evening restaurants
Ristorante Le Mura
17/18/19 Foro Italico Umberto IRistorante Carizzi d'amuri
21 Via LungariniCiccio in Pentola
44 Via Dello SpasimoOsteria Ballarò
25 Via CalascibettaTrattoria Al Vecchio Club Rosanero
18 Vicolo Caldomainearby food shopping
Carrefour Market - Supermarket
1 Salita PartannaAzienda Agricola Orlando
14 Via Alessandro PaternostroVucciria
Piazza Caraccioloday-time street food
'Nni Franco U'Vastiddaru
102 Via Vittorio Emanuele