Palermo Travel Forum

hello to everybody!
i'll stay in palermo for 1-2 days in August.
Tell me plz WHICH MOSt IMPORTANT PLACES i have to visit, except cathedrals, churches( i thing i've seen it enough )

You shouldn't miss Teatro Massimo,the Catacombe and Palazzo Dei Normani.

Sorry about churches but Monreale and the Cappella Palatina are not like anything you may have ever seen (I tthink from your published list). Palermo sightseeing means churches and Norman-Arab mosaics and a cloister and the amazing Baroque of Serpotta's Oratorios behind S. Domenico (near the Vucciria market which you must visit). You will not be impressed by the 4 corners but go there and a few yards away to the Piazza of the "Fountain of Shame". The Catacombs may interest you but it is out of the center (as is Monreale). If the Opera is performing at night while you are there try it. There is a puppet museum that sometimes has shows, other than that and Art and archeology Museums just walk.Sorry, but Sicily is for scenery, beaches, Greek antiquities and eating plus churches,churches,churches.

Palermo has a church on every corner. If you have a car and are feeling adventurous you could pay a visit to Corleone(the home of Toto Riina, the infamous Mafioso and/or Montelepre where the bandit Giuliano was born(they made a few movies about him). Then there is the Hotel des Palmes in Palermo(near Teatro Massimo)where Lucky Lucianoheld court when he was in Sicily.But like I said and other VTer's before me, there are a lot of churches

Thank you very much, and i understood that i would'nt avoid meeting with a churches =))