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City trips Palermo  -  Travel Information Palermo, Capital City Sicily.

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Camping

 Camping.it  -  Camp site Palermo

Car Rental Palermo

 Holiday Autos  -  
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

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Holiday Homes / Apartments

 Euro Relais  -  Holiday Cottages in Italy
Charming chalet, villa, castle or mill? Country cottage, mansion or farmhouse? Discover their special holiday homes and book online!
 NonSoloCasa  -  Holiday homes in Southern Italy

Hotels Palermo

 Booking - Hotels in Palermo  -  Hotel Guide Palermo

 Hotel Sicilia **, Via Divisi 99, 90133 Palermo
Located in the historical heart of Palermo, the hotel is conveniently close to all of the city's major tourist attractions.

 Hilton Villa Igiea Palermo *****, Salita Belmonte 43, 90142 Palermo
Overlooking the bay of Palermo, the Grand Hotel Villa Igiea is one of Sicily's most famous hotels. It was built by the powerful Florio Family at the end of the 19th century by the Architect Ernest Basile, master of Italian Art Nouveau.
The Grand Hotel Villa Igiea boasts jasmine-scented gardens and a pool perched over the sea. All rooms are fully equipped with cable TV and air conditioning. Mediterranean cuisine is served at the Belle Epoque terrace restaurant and by the pool bar.

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Quality resort hotels, unbeatable prices, up to date availability, instant confirmation.

  
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels.

Hostels

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.

 TFTHostels  -  Seach all hostels, book the cheapest
Hostels, Budget Hotels, Apartments, Guesthouses, B&B, and Campsites.
Hostel search engine. Search all Hostels, find the cheapest. Compare rates, reviews and recommendations. Check availability, specs and location. Book the hostel of your choice by visiting the hostel booking website.

 Ostelli online  -  Italian Youth Hostels Association

Travel Agents / Tour Operator

   -  Create your perfect trip  -  Flight, Hotel and Car

 Remembrance Travel



 L'Isobella  -  a fully licensed tour operator based in Catania, Sicily
For leisure or business, they would like to offer you an effective service for organizing your travel to Sicily at best: any kind of information about the island, travel itineraries, car rental, places to visit and much more.
 Sicilia Tour

Travel Guides Sicily / Destination Guides

Travel Guides Sicily [ Amazon.co.uk ]

The Rough Guide to Italy  -  Martin Dunford, Celia Woolfrey, Ros Belford
The Basics' section covers all the pre-departure nitty-gritty to help you plan your trip and the Guide', the heart of the book, divided into user-friendly chapters gives accounts of towns, sights and reviews of places to eat, drink and stay all pinpointed on accompanying maps and street plans. There is detailed background on Italy's history, art, architecture and a thorough further reading section with reviews of dozens of books relating to the country.
Paperback 1184 pages (May 5, 2005); Publisher: Rough Guides; Language: English; ISBN: 1843534274.

Transport / How do I get to Palermo

 Catania Airport

  Opodo  -  
Flight tickets Palermo.

 Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  Flights to Palermo / price comparison possible

Some people enjoy coming to Sicily by ship; From Northern Europe & Italy, it is possible to take a confortable fast ship from Genoa harbour [ Tirrenia ] and reach Palermo in about 17/18 hours. Frequent ferries from Naples to Milazzo and one daily from Ravenna [ adriatic northern coast ] to Catania as well as modern speed boats and catamarans daily from Malta To Catania and Pozzallo are available too.

 Tirrenia - Ferry lines - Timetable and Prices
 Ma-Re-Si 
Operates an all year round scheduled service between the ports of Valletta (Malta), Catania (Sicily) and Reggio Calabria (Italy).
 Virtu Ferries - Operators of high-speed car/passenger ferries Malta/Sicily

   
 Autostrade
 Online map Sicily [ Uni Texas - Perry-Castañeda Library - Map Collection ].

 Weather in Sicily


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 Travel Insurance - online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Palermo  -  Comune di Palermo  -  Capital City Sicily
In the middle of the Mediterranean sea, Palermo - the cradle of ancient civilizations - has always been a crossroads of cultures between East and West: a strategic transit place, a privileged port of call for commerce and trade, a landing-place for people of various race, language, and religion. Palermo has always enchanted visitors and foreigners alike with the charm of its location, the mildness of its climate, and the splendour of its buildings. And for these same reasons it has, over the centuries, been dominated by a succession of different rulers.

 Province Palermo  -  Palermo
 Region Sicily  -  Regione Siciliana

Cuisine - Sicilian Recipes

Sicilian cooking has perhaps the longest tradition of all in Italy. Its strong flavours and colours will lead the traveller to a profound understanding our spirit and the spirit of our land. The Sicilian cuisine builds a bridge between the East and the West: in numerous invasions, many civilizations mixed their blood and experience with ours, so that local families developped dished to please the different tastes of the the Greeks [ fish, olives, broad beans and fresh vegetables ], the Arabs [ usage of mint, raisin, fried preparations, pine nut ], the Normans, the French and the Spanish people who dominated the island.

Some famous Sicilian dishes are arancini, pasta alla norma, caponata, pani ca meusa and couscous al pesce. Sweets are another Sicilian speciality. Examples include frutta martorana, pignolata, buccellato, cannolo siciliano, granita, and cassata siciliana.

Sicilian Food: Recipes from Italy's Abundant Isle -  Mary Taylor-Simeti
Beginning with the oldest and most elemental components of the Sicilian diet, this book offers a collection of Sicilian recipes, as well as evocations of the dishes' origins: from the culinary innovations of Arab and Norman invaders to the ritual luxuries of Sicily's aristocracy.
Paperback 348 pages (July 31, 1999); Publisher: Grub Street Publishing; Language: English; ISBN: 1902304179.
Cucina Siciliana -  Authentic Recipes and Culinary Secrets from Sicily
Clarissa Hyman, Peter Cassidy (Photographer)
Journeying through the sun-drenched Southern Italian island of Sicily, this title offers a fusion of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food. Easy, stylish and authentic dishes are included and an introductory chapter features information on essential ingredients plus recipes for the staple store cupboard sauces used to enhance all manner of foods from pasta and rice to fish and poultry. Recipes are organized into times of the day, from breakfast and morning snacks, through lunch to afternoon refreshments and evening meals.
Hardcover 160 pages (October 15, 2001); Publisher: Conran Octopus; Language: English; ISBN: 1840911832. 

History of Sicily

 Sicilian history  -  Wikipedia
Sicily was colonized by Phoenicians and Punic settlers from Carthage and by Greeks, starting in the 8th century BC. The most important colony was established at Syracuse in 734 BC. Other important Greek colonies were Gela, Acragas, Selinunte, Himera, and Zancle or Messene (modern-day Messina, not to be confused ...

 Messina Regional Museum
The Messina Regional Museum preservers precious testimonies of the city's artistic production from over the centuries. Its collections include works both from the collections of the destroyed Museo Civico Peloritano, and from the religious and civic buildings destroyed by the catastrophic earthquake in 1908.
The exhibits are arranged according in chronological order from the 12th to the 18th centuries, over 12 rooms on the ground floor and 3 display areas on the 1st floor, and include important architectural fragments, mosaics, sculpture and examples of decorative arts.

Music, Culture & Entertainment

 Strole of the Giants  -  event in august
Enormous equestrian statues of Mata and Gryffindor, founders of the city
 Procession of the "Vara" - august
The liturgical calendar is the origin of some of the most characteristic events in Messina's popular culture.
Both because of their ancient origins, and also because of the city's tangible sense of tradition (despite the fact that it has suffered so many devastating catastrophes), such events are here celebrated with an enthusiasm and sense of participation which reflects the will of the local people to defend their identity.
The culmination of sacred and profane traditions occurs every year on the occasion of the celebrations for the celebrations Assumption of the Virgin Mary (patron of the city and, according to legend, bearer of a letter of benediction) in mid August

Web Portal / Italian Search Engine / Directory

 Google.it
 Il Trovatore  -  Italian search engine
 Vergilio

 Ariana Ricerca  -  Italian search engine
 Cerca  -  search engine
 Yellow Guide Italy  -  Yellow Pages Palermo
 Telephone Guide Italy


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