Teresa Levonian Cole wirtes that beyond Palermo’s faded grandeur you’ll find narrow streets filled with ancient workshops, tiny churches oozing atmosphere and a sweet reward at the end.
She goes on: “Sicily has long suffered from its associations with the Mafia, which leads visitors to fear a machine-gun beneath every tuxedo. The situation, we are assured, is much better these days, with local godfathers living it up – like Noel Coward in The Italian Job – behind the bars of the infamous Ucciardone prison, on a prime piece of real estate near the famous Villa Igiea hotel. But despite heroic efforts at clean-ups, both literal and metaphorical, Palermo can’t quite slough off its unsavoury image. Its very buildings exude a sense of former glory and present decadence”.
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