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SICILY PHOTOS
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DISCOVERING SICILY: PALERMO
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Discovering Palermo and its monuments - Interactive Map and Tips of Palermo Monuments
PALERMO
Palermo - What a beautiful city...It should be known mostly for its history and its beauty but it's saddly famous for the Mafia and for the corruption. Before coming to Palermo be ready to see a city full of contrasts. People mostly are nice and friendly. Criminality (I mean the normal criminality) is not much more than some other European big European Cities. It's a noisy city (so if you need a relaxing vacation...Palermo is not the city for you) and the traffic is chaotic but the atmosphere is very familiar and it's easy that you'll feel very well accepted by the local people.
Palermo never rated a stop on anybody's Grand Tour of Europe. Yet fairly judged, Palermo's art treasures surpass those of Venice. Its architectural and natural beauty compare favorably to the sights of Florence and its history is older than Rome's.
Palermo is also the only one Italian City other than Rome and Venezia to win a place on the roster of history's great empire.
Palermo and Sicily (very rich and powerful in the past) have been ruined by the Politic, the awfull administration and the Mafia who is very well connected with the Politic.
Tha Mafia is something that you (as tourists) won't be able to see...so, don't go to Corleone to try to see the mafiosi cause you won't be able to see any ;o) The Mafia is a problem for the Palermitani (and Sicilian) but the Mafia of the Godfather doesn't exist anymore...do you remember the Godfather 3?...Yes...when the Godfather was "working" very hard to make his name respectable?...well...now it's happened..."he" got his target and the big Mafiose Families now are very respactable and they can lead the Sicilian, Italian and in some case even world Economy...The "low level" mafia is still alive but now they are just..."employees"
Ok...we are not here to talk about Mafia of course but to talk about what you (as tourist) are going to feel and see in Palermo.Palermo has 2.500 years of history anyway one of the oldest part of Palermo is the Kalsa (Arab age). You'll see a huge amount of historical building and Palazzi...some in good conditions and more in bad conditions but you'll like the feeling of authenticity you'll get. With the Billion Euros that Sicily got from the European Union, Sicily Sicily should be the best preserved place in the world but .... it's possible that most of all that monet didn't get the right direction.... The food....the food in Palermo (and Sicily) is really good and various. Please...don't think that we can only cook Pasta or Pizza ;o) Yes...we have Pasta cooked in hundreds different way...hundreds type ways to cook the meat and the fish and hundreds type of Cakes and desserts. With our photos and the Interactive Palermo monuments map we are trying to show you Palermo thru our eyes. We are not a commercial guide...everything here is totally free and we did it and we continue to do it, every day with all the passion we have
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The Tourism in Palermo SHOULD be one of the main resources but...it seems it ìs not considered like that. This is really a shame cause Palermo has a lot to offer. Almost 3000 years of history but who manages the Tourism in Palermo looks like without any knowledge and experience. Inside the museums it looks like if they don't mind if ther are some tourists or not and sometimes they even decide to close a bit earlier. Palermo is great City but with too many contrasts...if you are ready to accept them as a part of the "Sicilianity"...you'll have a great vacation otherwise...choose another place.
 
Palermo - Fontana Pretoria
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