SANTA ROSALIA
The cave of...
by SirRichard
SANTA ROSALIA
The cave of Santa Rosalia is a nice visit. Here was supposed to live as a eremit the patron saint of the island, also called 'La Santuzza' by local people. During the first week of June every year in Santo Stefano Quisquina, there is a special celebration to commemorate her miraculous intervention that saved Palermo from the Black Plague. The legend says that in 1159 she retired to a hermetic existence in a remote cave on Monte Pellegrino, the rocky cliff high above the Bay of Palermo. Nothing was heard from her again until 1624, when the plague arrived in Sicily. Salvation to Sicily came in the unexpected form of La Santuzza, who appeared in a vision to a hunter lost on Monte Pellegrino. 'Don't worry,' she said 'I will protect you and I will protect the city'. She revealed to him the site of the cave in which she had lived as a hermit and told him to go back to Palermo and alert the archbishop and rulers of the city. The hunter did as he was instructed, and those leaders found her remains and displayed them through the streets of Palermo. Within three days, the plague ended, and she was proclaimed patron saint of the city.
The train is definately the...
by don_kam
The train is definately the best! As it cross the straits be awake to see the train being split into shorter sections to move into a large ferry. As the ferry cross the straits, be sure to get off the train and climb to the top of the ferry for a great view! At night, its quite dark but the breeze is worth the flights of stairs up the ferry deck
Walk or take the bus.
Drive to get to nearby town. The train is great too for inter-town travel!
The belly of Palermo
by Alice-Kees
A very lively market in the heart of the quarter La Vucciria with stalls selling vegetable, fruit, meat, fish and what have you. We sort of happened to land here on our way back to our car, but couldn't stop to linger around and savour the mediterranean aromas and watch the business of the traders.
Cattedrale di Monreale with...
by tabatha
Cattedrale di Monreale with his magnificent mosaics (the making of the world)
The cloisters, a great squre with 228 columns, everyone with different capitals
(a little bit expensive for these 8.000 ITL)
From Montreale which is about 8 km from Palermo you´ve got a beautiful few over the city
Palermo Architecture
by lotharscheer
Catredal de Palermo was erected in 1185, the corner towers were built between the 14th and the 15th centuries, in the early Renaissance the southern porch was added. The present neoclassical look dates from the work carried out over the two decades 1781 to 1801.
The Renaissance fountain in the Piazza Pretoria is a work of Francesco Camilliani, it was completed in 1555.
Chiesa della Martorana is annexed to the next-door church of San Cataldo. The original church was built in the form of a compact cross-in-square and had certainly been completed by 1151. San Cataldo was founded around 1160.
Orto Botanico was opened in 1795.
Teatro Massimo, the second largest opera theatre after Palais Garnier in Paris was inaugurated 1897.
Teatro Politeama was built between 1867 and 1874 by Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda.
Palazzo dei Normanni was started in the 9th century by the Emir of Palermo and extended in the 12th century.
Chiesa della Catena was built in 1490-1520.
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