PALERMO

I love yachts, and sometimes I simply come to the marina to sit and watch them. If you look closely, on the right side of the marina you’ll spot an old yacht called Liscia Bianca. This story began almost 50 years ago in an ordinary Palermo family. Sergio was[…]

The first time I came across “bread with ice cream” was on the Greek islands. There it was called an “ice cream sandwich,” and I thought it was a joke. It turned out it wasn’t. Brioche con gelato can be considered one of the Palermitans’ late breakfasts, and sometimes[…]

Another bright and delicious symbol of Sicily is the Sicilian blood orange – arancia rossa. Here we say that a blood orange is born where the snow of Mount Etna meets the Sicilian sun. That’s why you can only truly enjoy it during the snowy season – from December[…]

The first time I went to Villino Florio, I took a very complicated route through poor, non-touristy areas of Palermo. Looking around, I started searching for an answer to the question: “Why did one of the richest families in Italy at the end of the 19th century build their[…]

Today I finally visited the Oratory of San Lorenzo. My main goal was to finally see the replica of Caravaggio’s painting that was stolen in Palermo. Instead, I found myself amazed by the oratory itself. It is so deeply hidden among the city’s narrow streets that, even though I[…]

One of the questions I kept asking my local friends during my first weeks in Palermo was: Why are the city’s football team’s colors pink and black? I’m blonde, I like pink, but I simply couldn’t associate it with football. And when I first saw the players in the[…]

This is my favorite church in Palermo – San Giuseppe dei Teatini. I simply feel incredibly comfortable there. There is something about the atmosphere of this place that I really love. The Theatines were a Catholic religious order that built this church in the 17th century. One of the[…]

I love cooking, and that’s probably why one of my favorite streets in Palermo is Via Calderai – the Street of the Coppersmiths. The magic of this street can only be understood in the morning, while the artisan workshops are still open. For centuries, the craft of this street[…]

One evening after dinner, a friend from Palermo asked me, “So, dolce now?” To understand the joke, you have to leave dolce in Italian. In English, it simply means “sweet,” but in Italian it also means dessert. At the time, I had only just started living in this sweet[…]

To this day, every single one of my guests has loved this place. I usually say: “Now we’re going to a rosticceria, where you can try many different kinds of Palermitan street food in small portions — and everything costs €1.” Many people could stop reading here and go[…]