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Palermo is a Italian city. It is the capital and largest city of Sicily. It has 720,000 people, with more than 1,000,000 in the metropolitan area. It has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate. The city started as a colony of Phoenicia. It was later Islamic and Norman and part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

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  • Sommer, Giorgio (1834-1914) - n. 9000 - PALERMO - Monte Pellegrino

    Monte Pellegrino pictured at the end of the 19th century; the mountain is visible from everywhere in the city

  • Grotta dell'Addaura

    Mesolithic cave art at Addaura.

  • MuraPunichePalermo
    A brief stretch of Palermo's Phoenician defence wall, now enclosed in the Santa Caterina Monastery.
  • Palermo-San-Giovanni-bjs-2

    San Giovanni degli Eremiti, a church showing elements of Byzantine, Arabic and Norman architecture.

  • Chapelle Palatine

    Cappella Palatina, decorated with Byzantine, Arabic and Norman elements.

  • Sanesi - La rivoluzione di Palermo-12 gennaio 1848 - ca. 1850

    The revolution in Palermo (12 January 1848).

  • Giuseppe Garibaldi entering Palermo

    Giuseppe Garibaldi entering Palermo on 27 May 1860

  • Quarters of Palermo

    Quarters of Palermo

  • Il golfo di Mondello

    Gulf of Mondello seen from Monte Pellegrino

  • Palermo-San-Cataldo-bjs-1

    San Cataldo's Church.

  • Palermo-Martorana-bjs

    Chiesa della Martorana.

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    Church of Saint Catherine.

  • Palermo-Castle-bjs-1

    Palazzo dei Normanni, seat of the Sicilian Regional Assembly.

  • Palermo corso alberto feb 12 2347

    City wall at Corso Alberto

  • Palermo-Teatro-Massimo-bjs2007-02

    Teatro Massimo opera house.

  • Palermo Teatro Politeama BW 2012-10-09 16-44-27

    Teatro Politeama.

  • Palerm - Quattro Canti

    Quattro Canti at Christmas time.

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    Piazza Pretoria.

  • Orto botanico Palermo 04

    Palermo Botanical Garden: the Winter Garden greenhouses.

  • Palermo Tramway System Map

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