Pretty Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Palermo is the pretty sister to Catania. Palermo is much cleaner and Palermo also has less graffiti and is stunningly more beautiful than Catania. Palermo has hills and mountains and we were situated in the Mondello Beach area and our rental unit was up on a hill. It overlooked Mondello Beach and the two peninsulas. We had a rock wall formation behind us and I have yet to see anywhere in the world to have better views than we had been afforded with this rental property. There is so much to do in Palermo and so much to do in the Palermo area that it was hard to fit it all into a week. There are seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the city of Palermo. Palermo is a city of under 4.8 million people. The first full day in Palermo we drove into the city center historic district, parked and got in a small lineup to purchase tickets to the Norman Palace or the Palazzo dei Normanni or the Palace of Palermo which is a UNESCO and it has been influenced by many different cultures inclu...