Piazza Marina
Piazza Castelnuovo
Via Ruggero Settimo
Via Ruggero Settimo is one of the main streets in Palermo. Together with the perpendicular streets Principe di Belmonte and Generale Magliocco, it is considered the heart of Palermo. It extends for about 350 meters from, following the direction...
Church of San Giuseppe dei Teatini
The Church of San Giuseppe dei Teatini is a large Baroque building at the Quattro Canti, in the center of Palermo: one side faces Via Vittorio Emanuele and one faces Via Maqueda. Inside, colored marbles, gilded stuccoes and frescoes make it one...
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
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.
The Palazzo Riso's architecture clearly shows the...
Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi
The Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi is an eighteenth-century noble palace in Palermo, near Piazza Sant'Anna and the Gallery of Modern Art. It covers eight thousand square meters and is considered one of the peaks of Italian Rococo, preserved almost...
Piazza Pretoria
Piazza Pretoria, on the edge of the Kalsa, a few steps from the Quattro Canti, is one of the most scenic squares in Palermo. Almost entirely taken up by an enormous marble fountain, it is surrounded by a town hall, a Baroque church and two...
Palazzina Cinese
The Palazzina Cinese is an Oriental-style royal residence in the Parco della Favorita, in Palermo, at the foot of Monte Pellegrino. It was the country residence of King Ferdinand of Bourbon, who had it transformed with a pagoda roof.
The...
Viale della Libertà
Mondello Beach
Mondello is Palermo's beach: a semicircular bay of about 1,500 meters, tucked between Monte Pellegrino and Monte Gallo, some seven kilometers from the center. Pale sand, clear water and Liberty villas make it the city's most famous seaside...
Church of Santa Teresa alla Kalsa
The Church of Santa Teresa alla Kalsa is a Baroque church on Piazza Kalsa, in Palermo. Its full name is the Church of Saints Anne and Teresa of Ávila, and the facade is a small spectacle of columns and niches.
The facade, on two levels, is...
Church of San Francesco d'Assisi
The Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi is one of Palermo's great Gothic churches, in the Kalsa, not far from Corso Vittorio Emanuele. It has held the title of minor basilica since 1924, and among its sixteen chapels you can read Sicilian art from...
Church of Sant'Agostino
Villa Igiea
Church of Santa Maria della Catena
The church was built in 1490-1520, designed by Matteo Carnilivari. The name derives from the presence, on one of the walls, of a chain (Italian: catena) which closed the Cala port.
The work mixes late Renaissance style and Gothic-Catalan...
Cathedral Treasury
The Cathedral Treasury contains goblets, vestments, monstrances, a 14th-century breviary and the famous Crown of Constance of Sicily, a golden tiara found in her tomb in 1491.
Porta Nuova
Porta Nuova, located adjacent to the Palazzo dei Normanni, has been the most important land access to Palermo for centuries. From it, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, or Cassaro, the city's main artery, and, on the outside, the road to Monreale,...
Giardino Inglese
Church of San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi
San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi is an ancient church in Palermo, Sicily. While built by the Norman rulers, the architecture has strong Arabic influences. The builders may have been Fatimid architects. The church in 1119 was attached to a leprosarium,...
Astronomical Observatory Museum 'Giuseppe S. Vaiana'
The Giuseppe S. Vaiana Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory housed inside the Palazzo dei Normanni. It is one of the research facilities of the National Institute of Astrophysics.
It was founded in 1790 by Ferdinand I...
Palazzo Sclafani
The Palazzo Sclafani is a palace in Palermo, southern Italy, situated near the city's cathedral and the Palazzo dei Normanni. Constructed in 1330 by lord Matteo Sclafani, Count of Adernò, its design was in competition with his brother-in-law's...
Castello a Mare
Castello a Mare or Castellammare is an ancient fortress that guarded the entrance to the port at Palermo in La Cala.
Extensive remains are visible and open to the public, including an Arab-Norman keep and a sophisticated Renaissance...
Palazzo Belmonte-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,...
Foro Italico
The Foro Italico is a lawn along the seafront of Palermo.
In 1582 Vice-King Marco Antonio Colonna created a walking path in this part of the coast, that became a favorite destination for the leisure of the upper classes of the city in the...
Gallery of Modern Art Sant'Anna
Palazzo Mirto Museum
Church of San Giorgio dei Genovesi
Church of Santa Maria di Valverde
Piazza Magione
Piazza Verdi
Palazzo Isnello
Palazzo Isnello is an eighteenth-century noble palace on the Cassaro, the main street of old Palermo, between Piazza Borsa and the northern edge of the Kalsa. It is also called Palazzo Termine d'Isnello or Sant'Antimo al Cassaro. The facade looks...
Villa Giulia Garden
The Villa Giulia, also known as Villa del Popolo, and as Villa Flor is a park in Palermo, lying to the east of the botanical gardens. The park was commissioned by magistrate D. Antonino La Grua e Talamanca, marquis of Regalmici, in 1777 with...
Stadio Renzo Barbera
The Renzo Barbera stadium is Palermo's stadium, in the Favorita park. It is also the largest sports venue in the city, with two tiers of stands and over thirty-six thousand seats: Palermo has played its home games here since the opening in...
Church of Sant'Ignazio all'Olivella
The church was built between 1598 and 1622 by the Filippini Fathers, who settled in Palermo in 1594, based on a design by Antonio Muttone. The facade, completed between 1655 and 1690, is characterized by the presence of two twin bell towers, a...
Museum of Art and Archeology Ignazio Mormino
The Museum was founded in 1980 to exhibit the art collections of the Banco di Sicilia. The first core of the heritage dates back to the late 1950s, when the Ministry of Public Education agreed to entrust the Banco di Sicilia with 320 pieces of...
Zoological Museum Pietro Doderlein
Museum of the Risorgimento Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Archbishop's Palace
Parco d'Orléans
The Orléans Park is part of the villa of the same name, which houses the headquarters of the Presidency of the Sicilian Region. The park was built around the middle of the 19th century and was used for a long time as a place for agricultural...