Places to Visit

Zona Archeologica Monte Jato
Villino Florio e Giardino
Castello della Cuba e Necropoli Punica
Chiostro di San Giovanni degli Eremiti
Zona Archeologica Castello a Mare
Zona Archeologica Villa Bonanno
Chiostro Santa Maria la Nuova (Duomo)
Zona Archeologica e Antiquarium di Himera
Zona Archeologica e Antiquarium di Solunto
Giardino di Villa Napoli e Piccola Cuba
Castello Beccadelli Bologna
Oratorio dei Bianchi
Castello Medievale di Caccamo
Museo Regionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea - Palazzo Belmonte Riso
Convento della Magione
Galleria Regionale della Sicilia Palazzo Abatellis
Museo Regionale di storia naturale e mostra permanente del carretto siciliano
Museo di Palazzo Mirto
Complesso Monumentale Palazzo Reale (Palazzo dei Normanni e Cappella Palatina)
Castello della Zisa
Museo Civico di Polizzi Generosa
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
Museo Archeologico sito nella Torre di S. Maria

The province of Palermo, Sicily, located in the northwest extends for almost 5000 km, characterized by great geographical diversity. This suggests a division into five macro-areas (Alto Belice Corleone, partenicense West Coast, East Coast Termitana, Lercarese Sican, Madonie). They are characterized by a historical-cultural heritage and natural environment and of great value, excellent products and to secular traditions.
"Visiting Palermo" can not mean only visit the capital, as of extraordinary interest. Tourists can find out more attentive and aware real gems hidden along the roads of the province will have no fear if you follow our guidelines.
Palermo is a large city (with its 671,600 inhabitants is the fifth largest city in Italy), the regional capital, located on the gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the exact center of the Mediterranean.
Inhabited since prehistoric times, as evidenced by the recordings rupestridi paleolithic era, in 'VIII century BC was transformed into a powerful city by the Phoenicians in the Mediterranean.
During the Punic Wars (264-241 BC) the city was the center of the clashes between Rome and Carthage, and when he was called upon to take sides, he supported the first.
He then began a period of peace and prosperity that continued with the arrival of the Arabs, under whom Palermo became the most powerful city of Sicily. From this time the axis of Sicilian history moves from east to west and abstraction of Syracuse takes over, finally, in Palermo.
In fact, subsequent Norman and Swabian dominations increased the welfare of the city.
Palermo later became part of the Kingdom of Sicily with the annexation of the Kingdom of Naples became the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
And 'only with the advance of Garibaldi's Thousand Palermo and Sicily all became part of the emerging Kingdom of Italy.
The city is a gem for the extraordinary value of its monuments covering a vast period of time, for the richness and variety of its historical and artistic heritage preserved in galleries and museums of exceptional value to its special structure with many green areas incorporated harmoniously into the urban system, the continued interpenetration of urban and natural landscape at the same time.
This variety suggests a discovery through pathways and suitable to the expectations and interests of each