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Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
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Southern Italy
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, the
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Metropolitan City of Palermo
The Metropolitan City of Palermo ( it, Città metropolitana di Palermo; scn, Cità metrupulitana di Palermu) is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy. Its capital is the city of Palermo. It replaced the Province of Palermo and comprises the city o ...
. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is located in the northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians. Palermo then became a possession of Carthage, before becoming part of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and eventually part of the Byzantine Empire, for over a thousand years. From 831 to 1072 the city was under Arab rule during the
Emirate of Sicily
The Emirate of Sicily ( ar, إِمَارَة صِقِلِّيَة, ʾImārat Ṣiqilliya) was an Islamic kingdom that ruled the island of Sicily from 831 to 1091. Its capital was Palermo (Arabic: ''Balarm''), which during this period became a ...
when the city first became a capital. Following the Norman reconquest, Palermo became the capital of a new kingdom (from 1130 to 1816), the
Kingdom of Sicily
The Kingdom of Sicily ( la, Regnum Siciliae; it, Regno di Sicilia; scn, Regnu di Sicilia) was a state that existed in the south of the Italian Peninsula and for a time the region of Ifriqiya from its founding by Roger II of Sicily in 1130 un ...
Emperor Frederick II
Frederick II (German: ''Friedrich''; Italian: ''Federico''; Latin: ''Federicus''; 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusa ...
and King Conrad IV. Palermo is Sicily's cultural, economic and tourism capital. It is a city rich in history, culture, art, music and food. Numerous tourists are attracted to the city for its good Mediterranean weather, its renowned gastronomy and restaurants, its Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque churches, palaces and buildings, and its nightlife and music. Palermo is the main Sicilian industrial and commercial center: the main industrial sectors include tourism, services, commerce and agriculture.
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* Pronunciation: , ; scn, Palermu ; la, Panormus, from el, Πάνορμος
* Common English name(s):
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
* Official English name(s): City of Palermo
* Adjectival(s): Palermitan
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Demonym
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city
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Metropolitan City of Palermo
The Metropolitan City of Palermo ( it, Città metropolitana di Palermo; scn, Cità metrupulitana di Palermu) is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy. Its capital is the city of Palermo. It replaced the Province of Palermo and comprises the city o ...
* Population of Palermo:
** City: 676,118
** Metro: 1,300,000
* Area of Palermo: 158.9 km2 (61.4 sq mi)
* Atlas of Palermo
Location of Palermo
* Palermo is situated within the following regions:
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Northern Hemisphere
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and
Eastern Hemisphere
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Southern Italy
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Metropolitan City of Palermo
The Metropolitan City of Palermo ( it, Città metropolitana di Palermo; scn, Cità metrupulitana di Palermu) is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy. Its capital is the city of Palermo. It replaced the Province of Palermo and comprises the city o ...
UTC+02
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Oreto River
The Oreto is a river in Sicily. Its source is located between Altofonte and Monreale, a few kilometers from Palermo. It gives the name to the Oreto Valley and crosses the south-east portion of the city before flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Church of San Cataldo
The Church of San Cataldo is a Catholic church located at Piazza Bellini in central Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Erected in 1154 as a notable example of the Arab-Norman architecture which flourished in Sicily under Norman rule on the island, the chu ...
Palazzo dei Normanni
The Palazzo dei Normanni (Norman Palace) is also called Royal Palace of Palermo. It was the seat of the Kings of Sicily with the Hauteville dynasty and served afterwards as the main seat of power for the subsequent rulers of Sicily. Since 1946 ...
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Palermo Cathedral
Palermo Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo, located in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. As an architectural complex, it is characterized by the pre ...
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Ponte dell'Ammiraglio
The Admiral's Bridge (Italian: Ponte dell'Ammiraglio) is a medieval bridge of Palermo, located in Piazza Scaffa. It was built over the Oreto River during the era of the Norman Sicily by the '' ammiratus ammiratorum'' George of Antioch. In 2015, ...
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San Giovanni degli Eremiti
San Giovanni degli Eremiti (St John of the Hermits) is an ancient former monastic church located on Via Benedettini #19 in the ancient quarter of Albergaria of the city of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. It is about two blocks south from the ...
Brancaccio
Brancaccio is a neighbourhood in the municipality of Palermo, Sicily, in Italy. It is a semi-traditional area of the working class. It was important in the history of the Cosa Nostra.
Antimafia priest Pino Puglisi
Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi (, ; ...
ZEN (Palermo)
Zona Espansione Nord, also known as ZEN or San Filippo Neri (disambiguation), San Filippo Neri, is an economically deprived quarter on the northern outskirts of Palermo, Sicily. It is located in the VII municipality and has a population of around ...
Locations in Palermo
* Tourist attractions
** Museums in Palermo
** Shopping areas and markets
Ancient monuments in Palermo
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Catacombe dei Cappuccini
The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo (also Catacombe dei Cappuccini or Catacombs of the Capuchins) are burial catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. Today they provide a somewhat macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary histori ...
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Rosalia Lombardo
Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920) was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, one week before her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, was grieving her death, asked Alfredo Sala ...
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City walls
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Bridges in Palermo
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Ponte dell'Ammiraglio
The Admiral's Bridge (Italian: Ponte dell'Ammiraglio) is a medieval bridge of Palermo, located in Piazza Scaffa. It was built over the Oreto River during the era of the Norman Sicily by the '' ammiratus ammiratorum'' George of Antioch. In 2015, ...
Castello di Maredolce
The Maredolce Castle (Italian: Castello di Maredolce), also called Favara Palace (Italian: Palazzo della Favara), is a medieval building of Palermo. During the Siculo-Norman age it represented one of the "'' Solatii Regii''" of the Kings of Sicil ...
Churches in Palermo
Palermo, main city of Sicily, has a big heritage of churches which ranges from the Norman architecture, Arab-Norman-Byzantine style to the Gothic architecture, Gothic and the Baroque architecture, Baroque styles. In particular, the list includes th ...
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Church of San Cataldo
The Church of San Cataldo is a Catholic church located at Piazza Bellini in central Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Erected in 1154 as a notable example of the Arab-Norman architecture which flourished in Sicily under Norman rule on the island, the chu ...
Oratorio del Rosario di San Domenico
The Oratory of the Rosary of Saint Dominic ( Italian: Oratorio del Rosario di San Domenico) is a Baroque oratory of Palermo. It is located near the Church of Saint Dominic, in the quarter of the Loggia, within the historic centre of Palermo.
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Oratory of Saint Lawrence
The Oratory of Saint Lawrence ( it, Oratorio di San Lorenzo) is a Baroque oratory of Palermo. It is located near the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, in the quarter of the Kalsa, within the historic centre of Palermo.
The oratory was built ...
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Palermo Cathedral
Palermo Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo, located in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. As an architectural complex, it is characterized by the pre ...
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San Domenico San Domenico may refer to:
Catholic saints
* Dominic de Guzmán (1170-1221), Spanish priest and founder of the Dominican Order
* San Domenico di Sora (951-1031), Italian abbot, patron saint of Villalago
Churches
* San Domenico, Arezzo (Basilica ...
San Giovanni degli Eremiti
San Giovanni degli Eremiti (St John of the Hermits) is an ancient former monastic church located on Via Benedettini #19 in the ancient quarter of Albergaria of the city of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. It is about two blocks south from the ...
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San Giuseppe dei Teatini
San Giuseppe dei Teatini is a Roman Catholic church on via Vittorio Emanuele, at the southwest corner of the Quattro Canti, in the historic center of the city of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. The east flank of the nave faces the Fontana Pre ...
Santa Maria della Pietà, Palermo
The Church of Saint Mary of Pity (Italian: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pietà) is a Baroque church of Palermo. It is located at the corner of Via Alloro and Via Torremuzza in the quarter of the Kalsa, within the historic centre of Palermo.
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Santa Maria dello Spasimo
Santa Maria dello Spasimo, or Lo Spasimo, is an unfinished Catholic church in the Kalsa neighborhood in Palermo, Sicily, on Via dello Spasimo.
Construction of the church and accompanying monastery of the Olivetan Order began in 1509 with a papal ...
Fontana del Garraffo
The Garraffo Fountain (Italian: Fontana del Garraffo) is a Baroque fountain of Palermo. It is located in Piazza Marina, down the ancient Cassaro street, now called Via Vittorio Emanuele, within the historic centre of Palermo.
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The name ...
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Fontana del Genio a Villa Giulia
The Fontana del Genio a Villa Giulia or Genio di Villa Giulia is a sculpted water fountain in the park of the Villa Giulia in Palermo. It was sculpted by Ignazio Marabitti in 1778 and shows the Genius of Palermo
The Genius of Palermo (in Italian ...
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Fontana Pretoria
The Praetorian Fountain (Italian: Fontana Pretoria) is a monumental fountain located in Piazza Pretoria in the historic center of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. The fountain dominates the piazza on the west flank of the church of Santa Caterin ...
Palazzo Riso
The Palazzo Riso, or RISO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia (''RISO, Contemporary Art Museum of Sicily'' also known as Palazzo Belmonte Riso), is a regional contemporary art museum located in the ancient Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Palermo, ...
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Regional Archeological Museum Antonio Salinas
The Antonino Salinas Regional Archeological Museum ( it, Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas) is a museum in Palermo, Italy. It possesses one of the richest collections of Punic and Ancient Greek art in Italy, as well as many items ...
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Palermo Fragment
The Palermo fragment, also known as Fagan slab from the name of the artist and British consul Robert Fagan who owned it, is a 2,500-year-old marble sculpture fragment of the foot and dress of the ancient Greek goddess Artemis.
The Palermo fragm ...
Palazzo Chiaramonte
Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri is a Gothic-style palace located on via Piazza Marina, facing the Giardino Garibaldi in the ancient quarter of Kalsa of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.
History
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Palazzo Comitini
Palazzo Comitini, complete name Palazzo Gravina di Comitini, is a Baroque palace located on Via Maqueda #100, adjacent to the church of San'Orsola in the quarter of Albergheria, in the historic center of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. Presen ...
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Palazzo Isnello
Palazzo Isnello (also known as Palazzo Termine d'Isnello or Palazzo Sant'Antimo al Cassaro) is an historic palazzo situated between the ancient via del Cassaro and Piazza Borsa, in the Kalsa quarter of Palermo, Sicily.
On the ''piano nobile'' of ...
Palazzo dei Normanni
The Palazzo dei Normanni (Norman Palace) is also called Royal Palace of Palermo. It was the seat of the Kings of Sicily with the Hauteville dynasty and served afterwards as the main seat of power for the subsequent rulers of Sicily. Since 1946 ...
Palazzo Natoli
Palazzo Natoli is a Baroque palace in Palermo, in the Mediterranean island of Sicily. It was built by Vincenzo Natoli in 1765. It has a fine entrance on via S. Salvatore, and frescoes by Gioacchino Martorana
Gioacchino Martorana (19 ...
Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi
Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi is an urban palace, first of the Princes Valguarnera and then of the Princes Gangi, situated in the Piazza Croce dei Vespri, in the ancient quarter of the Kalsa in the city of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. The palace ...
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Villa Malfitano Whitaker
Villa Malfitano Whitaker is a 19th-century villa in Via Dante, in the quarter of Politeama of Palermo, Sicily. It is presently a museum displaying Whitaker's natural history and archaeological collections, as well as his artwork.
History
The vil ...
Parks and gardens in Palermo
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Orto botanico di Palermo
The Orto Botanico di Palermo (''Palermo Botanical Garden'') is both a botanical garden and a research and educational institution of the Department of Botany of the University of Palermo. The garden lies within the city of Palermo, Italy at ...
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Parco della Favorita
La Favorita Park (Italian language, Italian: Parco della Favorita or Real Tenuta della Favorita) is a large city park in Palermo, Italy. Established in 1799 by Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand III of Sicily, it has an overall area of , ...
Piazza Bellini
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Piazza Castelnuovo
Piazza Castelnuovo is a square of Palermo. Along with the contiguous Piazza Ruggero Settimo, it forms a single urban space, commonly called Piazza Politeama, by virtue of the presence of Teatro Politeama, the second most important theatre of the ...
Piazza Marina
Piazza Marina is a square of Palermo. It is located down the Cassaro street, in the quarter of the Kalsa, within the historic centre of Palermo. The square is dominated by the great Garibaldi Garden.
History
In the Middle Ages the area of Pi ...
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Piazza Pretoria
Piazza Pretoria is at the limits of the district of Kalsa, near the corner of Cassaro with Via Maqueda, just a few meters from the Quattro Canti, the intersection where all the four ancient quarters intersect, in the city of Palermo, region of S ...
Piazza San Domenico
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Via Maqueda
Via Maqueda, also known as "''Strada Nuova''" (''New Street''), is an important street of Palermo. Together with the Cassaro, Palermo, Cassaro, it represents the main axis of the historic centre and provides access to a number of important sights, ...
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Via Roma
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Theatres in Palermo
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Teatro Biondo
The Biondo Theatre (Italian: Teatro Biondo, complete name Teatro Biondo Stabile) is a neoclassical and Art Nouveau-style theater building located on Via Roma #258, corner with Via Venezia, in the ancient quarter of Castellamare of central Pa ...
Teatro Politeama
The Teatro Politeama is a theatre in Lisbon, Portugal that opened in 1913.
History
Teatro Politeama was conceived by Luís António Pereira. Buying land on what is now the Rua das Portas de Santo Antão, close to the ''Coliseu dos Recreios'', a ...
Government and politics of Palermo
* Government of Palermo
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List of mayors of Palermo
The mayor of Palermo is an elected politician who, along with the Palermo's city council, is accountable for the strategic government of Palermo in Sicily, Italy. The current mayor is Roberto Lagalla, who took office on 20 June 2022.
Overview
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Timeline of Palermo
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
Prior to 19th century
* 734 BC - Phoenicians found Palermo
*415 BC – Carthaginians in power, but continue using Greek name Panormos on the city's coins.
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Early history
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Battle of Palermo
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Cassata
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Religion in Palermo
* Christianity in Palermo
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Bishop of Palermo
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Palermo ( la, Archidioecesis Panormitana) was founded as the Diocese of Palermo in the first century and raised to the status of archdiocese in the 11th century.Diocese of Palermo
** Catholicism in Palermo
*** Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo
Stadio Renzo Barbera
Stadio Renzo Barbera (commonly known as La Favorita) is a football stadium in Palermo, Italy. It is currently the home stadium of Palermo F.C. team. The stadium was inaugurated during the fascist era on 24 January 1932, and was originally name ...
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Velodromo Paolo Borsellino
Velodromo Paolo Borsellino is a multi-use stadium in Palermo, Italy, located in the ''ZEN'' neighbourhood of the city, and currently home to local American football club Sharks Palermo and rugby football club Palermo Rugby 2005. It is named afte ...
Banca Nuova
Banca Nuova S.p.A. was an Italian bank headquartered in Palermo, Sicily island. The bank served the island (the region) mostly, with branches in Calabria region; It was a subsidiary of Banca Popolare di Vicenza (BPVi), in turn owned by Atlante, ...
Port of Palermo
Port of Palermo ( it, Porto di Palermo) is a port serving Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
The port of Palermo is one of the major ports for passenger traffic in the Mediterranean. According to author Patrizia Fabbri the port has been "a constant drivin ...
Palermo Centrale railway station
Palermo Centrale is the main railway station of the Italian city of Palermo, capital of Sicily. It is one of the most important " FS" stations of Italy. Along with Catania Centrale, Messina Centrale and Syracuse it is one of the most important ...
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Palermo Notarbartolo railway station
Palermo Notarbartolo ( it, Stazione di Palermo Notarbartolo) is one of the main railway stations serving the city and ''comune'' of Palermo, capital of the region of Sicily in Italy. Opened in 1974, it is the second most important station in Pale ...
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Punta Raisi railway station
Punta Raisi railway station ( it, Stazione di Punta Raisi), is located within Palermo Airport ( it, Aeroporto di Palermo "Falcone e Borsellino") (IATA airport code, IATA code: PMO) in Cinisi, near Palermo, Sicily, insular Italy, Italy. Opened in ...
Trams in Palermo
Vehicular traffic system in Palermo
* Roads in Palermo
Outline of geography
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Geography – study of earth and its people.
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Geography as
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Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...