PALERMO

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[…]

Ever since I moved to Sicily, the Florio family has been the most fascinating part of the island’s modern history for me. A family of entrepreneurs with no title and no great fortune, who turned 19th-century Palermo into one of the richest and most modern cities in the Mediterranean.[…]