Palermo Street Food: a complete guide to what to eat
Palermo is regularly cited as the street food capital of Italy, and the claim has specific historical justification. The city’s three ancient markets Ballarò, the Capo and the Vucciria have occupied the same streets since the Arab period of the 9th to 11th centuries, and the food sold in them today traces its ingredients and […]
Things to do in Palermo: the ultimate Travel Guide
Palermo is the city that refuses to be simplified. Its 2,800 years of continuous occupation Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Spaniards, Bourbons have left a physical record that is simultaneously chaotic and magnificent: Byzantine mosaics inside Norman chapels designed by Arab craftsmen, baroque churches rising from medieval street grids inherited from Arab urban […]