Palermo Travel Guide | Lets Fly Cheaper

The city of Palermo is a historic city with many ruins and decaying historical buildings and these add beauty and mystery to the place. This capital city of Sicily is famous for its rich history, culture, cuisines and architecture. The people, like the city itself, are extremely warm to visitors and their passion and enthusiasm are contagious. The city's rich Mediterranean sights and sounds keep on attracting tourists from around the world. The many nude statues in the famous Pretoria Fountain in the Piazza Pretoria make it a favorite tourist attraction. The ancient square Quattro Canti is famous for its impressive structures in the city such as the Palazzo dei Normanni.

There are lots of nearby attractions to the city. If you want to experience the bizaare and scary, visit the spooky Capuchin Catacombs located under the Capuchin Monastery where it houses over 800 preserved or mummified cadavers that looks so real. These cadavers line the walls, well, serving as a macabre decoration. Many restless spirits, according to witnesses, still roam this burial place. "Sleeping Beauty" is the most famous cadaver in these catacombs, a 2 year old girl named Rosalia Lombaro.

Of course, your visit to the mysterious Palermo will not be complete without a trip to the beach on the north coast where you can relax in Mondello resort where you can also see elegant villas, palms trees, crystal blue waters and majestic mountains views of Mount Pellegrini and Cape Gallo. If you want a nature trip, the Capo Gallo National Park is just close by. You can also find great cafes and restaurants in and around the city with simply amazing local and international dishes. Other great places that you should visit while in Palermo are the Galleria Regionale which is the largest art museum in the city which is housed in a beautiful 15th century building called the Gothic Palazzo Abbatellis, the puppetry art of Marionette Museum, the dazzling Monreale Cathedral, the aristocratic home Palazzo Mirto, the Regional Archaeological Museum, the Roman ruins in Solunto, and the underwater city and landscape of fossilized black lava called the Ustica.

Climate: The city of Palermo in Sicily experiences a coastal or Mediterranean climate that displays mild and wet winter seasons and hot and dry summer days and nights. The places near mountainous regions are cooler. Snow fall is common during the winter months. Palermo is actually the warmest cities in Sicily with lots of sunny and hot weather temperatures every year.

Transportation: Sicily is a famous mafia territory during the early nineties. In fact, it is a famous country in mafia movies. Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone, two anti-mafia judges, were killed by the mafia in the nineties and so the Falcone-Borsellino Airport was dedicated to them. The airport is more popularly known as the Palermo International Airport. The city has a metro railway system that maintains two lines, the Metropolitana di Palermo. Other forms of public transports in Palermo include buses, car hires, and taxis.

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