A visitor can get a great deal from Palermo Cathedral before entering a ticketed area. The exterior is an attraction in its own right, with a layered façade, towers and a generous setting that makes it possible to look from several angles.
If time or money allows only a limited number of paid interiors in Palermo, the Palatine Chapel deserves serious consideration. Its gold-ground…
The cost of seeing Palermo's architectural details is often nothing more than a few extra minutes. Roof tiles, cornices and weathered façades are…
Palermo's week starts with the Festa dei Morti on November 2, when the city's children wake up to presents said to come from their dead relatives. It…
Walk out of Catania's cathedral square, past the elephant fountain, and look for the stairs going down by the fountain of Amenano. The noise reaches…
Taormina was famous long before television found it. Goethe came through, D.H. Lawrence lived here, the Greek theatre has framed Etna for two…
