Stop At: Teatro dell'Opera dei Pupi, Via Bara All'Olivella 95, Palermo 90133
Puppet opera is a particular type of puppet theatre, which emerged in southern Italy and particularly in Sicily in the early 1800s, is Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Teatro Massimo, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, Palermo 90138
It is the largest Opera House in Italy, the third one in Europe. It was built in 1875 and its history is full of legends.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Capo Street Market, Via Cappuccinelle, Palermo 90138
The best street food market in Palermo
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Dainotti's Cibo di Strada, Via Mura di Porta Carini, 51, 90134 Palermo PA, Italy
The best street food shop (friggitoria) in the old center of Palermo.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Via Beati Paoli, Via Beati Paoli, 90134 Palermo PA, Italy
Beati Paoli is the name of a secretive sect thought to have existed in medieval Sicily. The sect, as described by the author Luigi Natoli in his historic novel I Beati Paoli. Whereas the novel is fictitious, Sicily's history bears some evidence that the Beati Paoli actually existed.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Cattedrale di Palermo, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Palermo 90040
The Cathedral of Palermo is the most important monument of the “Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedrals of Cefalù and Monreale” site inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO on 2015.
The Cathedral of Palermo was founded by Gualtiero Offamilio, archbishop of the town from 1169 to 1190. It was a mosque in Islamic times and converted into a cathedral church by Roberto the Guiscardo after the conquest of Palermo. Its exclusive elements are the inlays and the architectural and sculptural plastic that reflects the penetration of Romanic art and the first Gothic decorative taste in Sicily.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Quattro Canti, Corso Vittorio Emanuelle, Via Maqueda, Palermo 90100
Quattro Canti, or Vigliena square, is the name of the octagonal square in the intersection between the two most important streets in Palermo: via Maqueda and Cassaro (corso Vittorio Emanuele). Ancients sources refers about it as “Octagon” or “Sun’s Theatre”, because during the daylight almost one of the façades is lighten by the sun. The “Four Corners” were realized from 1609 until 1620. The shape of the square is an octagon and it’s placed in the middle of the ancient city as a perfect point of connection between the four most important districts of that period which are: Kalsa, La Loggia, Capo e Albergheria. The four façades of the buildings have four different levels. In the lowest one it is possible to see the fountains as the symbols of the four old Palermo’s main rivers: Oreto, Kemonia, Pannaria, Papireto; in the next level are shown the allegories of the four seasons represented by Eolo, Venus, Cerere and Bacchus; the middle part is decorated by the statues of Carlo V, Filippo II, Filippo III, Filippo IV; and in the last order there are the illustration of the four saints of Palermo before the arrival of Saint Rosalia (1624): Agata, Ninfa, Oliva e Cristina.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Capo Street Market, Via Cappuccinelle, Palermo 90138
The Capo Market is the best and traditional old market in Palermo. Here you find only local fruit, vegetables, meat and fish. Here we stop to taste the street food of Palermo.
Duration: 45 minutes
