Palermo Walking Tour #1 (Mercato Il Capo, La Vucciria, Ballaro and Teatro Massimo)
Merry Christmas from Palermo!
Hope everyone is doing well. As promised here is the first of several videos documenting my time here. This first video is a walk through of several markets near my apartment. Things to look for in this video: swordfish, Minnie Mouse, and Italian people! More to come soon!
Palermo Port Italy Walking to City Center (with music)
Today, we arrive in Palermo, Italy. Day 3 of our cruise on MSC Preziosa. From the cruise port, we take a long walk to the historic city center. Took about half and hour. Follow my review here -
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What is Palermo really like? // Vlog
Before visiting any city, I like to quickly read a little about the safety and areas to avoid. I adopted this practice after ending up in what was apparently the worst part of Athens. I know not to believe everything I read on the internet, but you have to start somewhere. When reading about Palermo, I was nervous to read many accounts of peoples scary experiences and of course talk of the mafia. I was pleasantly surprised when we found ourselves in Palermo, how warm the people were (even though we don't speak italian), and how safe I actually felt (even though we were staying in one of the supposed areas to avoid.) Our airbnb host was wonderful and I found that most of my interactions with people were playful and light. We did get to visit the Ballaro Market, one of three famous markets in the city, which was definitely my favorite part. Enjoy and share with your friends!
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Palermo Sicily (4K) / Italy Travel Vlog #226 / The Way We Saw It
Hello Palermo! We had not many expectations to the largest city of Sicily, the ill reputed Italian island. We were overwhelmed by it's beauty, charm and culinary specialties. We just loved to stroll in the streets of this old city, it's markets, churches, shops and squares.
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For millennia at the crossroads of civilizations, Palermo delivers a heady, heavily spiced mix of Byzantine mosaics, Arabesque domes and frescoed cupolas. This is a city at the edge of Europe and at the centre of the ancient world, a place where souk-like markets rub against baroque churches, where date palms frame Gothic palaces and where the blue-eyed and fair have bronze-skinned cousins.
Centuries of dizzying highs and crushing lows have formed a complex metropolis. Here, crumbling staircases lead to gilded ballrooms and guarded locals harbor hearts of gold. Just don't be fooled. Despite its noisy streets, Sicily’s largest city is a shy beast, rewarding the inquisitive with citrus-filled cloisters, stucco-laced chapels and vintage stores filled with the threads of faded aristocrats. Add to this Italy’s biggest opera house and an ever-growing number of vibrant, new-school eateries and bars and you might just find yourself suddenly, unexpectedly in love.
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Palermo Walking Tour #5 - Palermo Cathedral, Cappuccini Catacombs
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Sicily, Italy. A Walk Outside and Inside The Cathedral of Palermo
Palermo Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It is characterized by the presence of different styles, due to a long history of additions, alterations and restorations.
The church was erected in 1185 by Walter Ophamil , the Anglo-Norman archbishop of Palermo and King William II's minister, on the area of an earlier Byzantine basilica. This earlier church was founded by Pope Gregory I and was later turned into a mosque by the Saracens after their conquest of the city in the 9th century. The medieval edifice had a basilica plan with three apses, of which only some minor architectural elements survive today.
The upper orders of the corner towers were built between the 14th and the 15th centuries, while in the early Renaissance period the southern porch was added. The present neoclassical appearance dates from the work carried out over the two decades 1781 to 1801 by Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia and supervised by Ferdinando Fuga. During this period the great retable by Gagini, decorated with statues, friezes and reliefs, was destroyed and the sculptures moved to different parts of the basilica. Also by Fuga are the great dome emerging from the main body of the building, and the smaller domes covering the aisles' ceilings.
The main façade is on the Western side, on the current Via Bonello, and has the appearance set in the 14th and 15th centuries. It is flanked by two towers and has a Gothic portal surmounted by a niche with a precious 15th-century Madonna. Two lintelled ogival arcades, stepping over the street, connect the façade to the bell tower in the front, annexed to the Archbishops Palace.
The right side has outstretching turrets and a wide portico (the current entrance) in Gothic-Catalan style, with three arcades, erected around 1465 and opening to the square. The first column on the left belonged to the original basilica and the subsequent mosque.
The area of the apse, enclosed by the turrets and grandly decorated on the external walls, is part of the original 12th-century building, while the more modern part of the church is the left side, which has an early 16th-century portal by Antonello Gagini. The South-Western façade, looking at the Archbishop Palace, dates from the 14th to 15th centuries.
The interior has a Latin cross plan, with a nave and two aisles divided by pilasters. In the first two chapels of the right aisle are the imperial and royal tombs of the Normans, those of Frederick II and father of Henry VI. The Sacrament chapel, at the end of the left aisles, is decorated with precious stones and lapislazuli. To the right, in the presbytery, is the chapel of Saint Rosalia, patron of Palermo.
In this cathedral, synthesis of history and art of the last millennium in Sicily, in addition to the Norman kings were also crowned Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy and Carlo III of Bourbon.
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In this travel talk, Rick Steves' Europe tour guide and co-author Sarah Murdoch takes you on a trip through Palermo — peeling back its layers of history (from Arab to Norman to Spanish), touring its great sights (including the Teatro Massimo, Fountain of Shame, and glorious churches including Monreale Cathedral), and sampling its famous street food.
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Mafia in Palermo (4K) / Italy Travel Vlog #227 / The Way We Saw It
Today, a very different vlog from Palermo, Sicily.
We joined a tour called No Mafia learning about the history and presence of the Mafia and the civil antimafia movement whilst walking through the picturesque historic centre of Palermo to discover a city that is starting to rebel against the Mafia’s protection racket (Addiopizzo).
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Palermo, Italy in 4K (UHD) HDR / Палермо, Италия / Palermo, Italia
Palermo was founded in 754 BC by the Phoenicians.
The city is located on the beach, which contributed to the development of trade.
At the time of ancient Rome, Palermo is already a large port.
Now Palermo is a major port and tourist center, a city with a rich history and magnificent monuments.
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Палермо был основан в 754 году до нашей эры финикийцами.
Город расположился на берегу моря, что способствовало развитию торговли.
Во времена Древнего Рима Палермо уже крупный порт.
Сейчас Палермо - это крупный порт и туристический центр, город с богатой историей
и великолепными памятниками.
Palermo fu fondata nel 754 aC dai Fenici.
La città si trova sulla spiaggia, che ha contribuito allo sviluppo del commercio.
Al tempo dell'antica Roma, Palermo è già un grande porto.
Ora Palermo è un importante porto e centro turistico, una città con una ricca storia e magnifici monumenti.
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Прогулка по Палермо / Walking tour of Palermo
A walk in Palermo, the capital of Italian island of Sicily, summer, June 2019 / Прогулка по Палермо, столице Сицилии в Италии, лето, Июнь 2019
Walking in Palermo , Italy
Palermo - Italy
See the best accommodation Palermo is a city in Insular Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. 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 as Ziz ('flower'). 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. The Greeks named the city Panormus meaning 'complete port'. From 831 to 1072 it was under Arab rule during the Emirate of Sicily when it first became a capital. The Arabs corrupted the Greek name into Balarm, the root for its present-day name. Following the Norman reconquest, Palermo became capital of a new kingdom (from 1130 to 1816), the Kingdom of Sicily. Eventually it would be united with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Two Sicilies until the Italian unification of 1860.
The population of Palermo urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 855,285, while its metropolitan area is the fifth most populated in Italy with around 1.2 million people. In the central area, the city has a population of around 650,000 people. The inhabitants are known as Palermitans or, poetically, panormiti. The languages spoken by its inhabitants are the Italian language and the Sicilian language, in its Palermitan variation.
Palermo is Sicily's cultural, economic and touristic 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. Palermo currently has an international airport, and a significant underground economy.[citation needed] In fact, for cultural, artistic and economic reasons, Palermo was one of the largest cities in the Mediterranean and is now among the top tourist destinations in both Italy and Europe. The city is also going through careful redevelopment, preparing to become one of the major cities of the Euro-Mediterranean area.
Roman Catholicism is highly important in Palermitan culture. The patron saint of the city is Saint Rosalia. Her feast day on July 15 is perhaps the biggest social event in the city. The area attracts significant numbers of tourists each year and is widely known for its colourful fruit, vegetable and fish market at the heart of Palermo, known as the Vucciria.
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Walking Tour in Palermo, Sicily - 2016
Outtakes from a walking tour in Palermo, Sicily. I also took at day trip up to Monreale to see Cappella Palatina. The drive from Palermo was nothing short of picturesque.
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