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Discovering Palermo and his culture { 74 images } Created 24 Oct 2017

In the coming year the famous capital of Sicily will become the Italian Capital of Culture, a year when public and private activity in town will be centered on cultural events, one on all will be Manifesta12, one of the main contemporary biennials of contemporary art world-wide.
The city has radically changed since the Mafia wartime of a quarter of a century ago. We could say that it is reborn and holds a lot to celebrate the concept of "culture" at three hundred and sixty degrees. From the museums and libraries centre that will host the 2018 events to a popular culture of traditional markets, street food and widespread hospitality.
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  • The Renaissance fountain at Piazza Pretoria has a strange story, it was not designed for Palermo, was placed in Pretoria Square, in front of the current municipal building, as there were no other large squares and even the houses were cut down for making space. Perhaps because of its strange statues, for the bare majority, the Palermo people have for centuries seen the fountain as the symbol of corruption and malice. Now that the city, radically changed in the last quarter of a century, is about to become an Italian capital of culture, this statue seems to look worried the dawn of the new day that will bring even more progress and light on the Sicilian capital
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  • On the seafront at the beginning of the Foro Italico, the Butera Palace will be one of the key points of the coming cultural year
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  • The “Pupi” are part of the city's history, despite being over-represented by the few performances that are taking place, several important city museums, such as Branciforte Palace, house historical collections of these puppets
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  • Former Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts, Carlo Lauricella uses the materials that best suits the concept he wants to express, even though he becomes a material, in the performance of the Endless Migrations exhibition at the Reale Albergo delle Povere
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  • The Renaissance fountain at Piazza Pretoria, one of the city symbols
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  • The historic center of Palermo is devoid of true big squares, a relatively wide place, among other things in Baroque style, the Quattro Canti, which ideally divide the city into four areas, is a passage that everyone knows,
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  • The Renaissance fountain at Piazza Pretoria, one of the city symbols
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  • Open-air inn in Piazza San Domenico
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  • One of the open-air restaurants in the central Piazza Bologna
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  • In the Maqueda Street, forbidden to cars
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  • The historic center of Palermo is devoid of true big squares, a relatively wide place, among other things in Baroque style, the Quattro Canti, which ideally divide the city into four areas, is a passage that everyone knows,
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  • The historic center of Palermo is devoid of true big squares, a relatively wide place, among other things in Baroque style, the Quattro Canti
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  • In the district of La Kalsa
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  • Statues of the Cathedral
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  • Statues of the Cathedral
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  • The precious ceiling of the Admiral's Church
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  • St. Francis Church, in the La Kalsa district
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  • St. Francis Church in La Kalsa district, a spectacular wedding venue
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  • The Palace where the author of Il Gattopardo lived
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  • Piazza Rivoluzione. Revolution Square, in the Kalsa district
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  • Le Cattive, The Badgers,  give their name to a belvedere overlooked along the Foro Italico and included in the Butera Palace complex
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  • The Politeama, the other historic theater in the city
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  • Teatro Massimo, the heart of the historic center, one of the conquests of the new Palermo is the pedestrianization
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  • During the "night at the theater", an initiative promoted by the Massimo  theater to get acquainted with the youngest
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  • One of the monumental cipps of Villa Marina
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  • In the district of La Kalsa
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  • In the district of La Kalsa
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  • In the district of La Kalsa
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  • In the Ballarò market
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  • In the Ballarò market
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  • garlic on sale in the Ballarò market
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  • In La Vucciria market
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  • In the Ballarò market
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  • Villa Bonanno, the public park that separates the royal Normandy from the historical center
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  • The public parks in Palermo are called "Villa", Villa Marina has secular trees.
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  • The only elected mayor of the provincial capital elected in the first round of 2017 administrative elections, Leoluca Orlando represents the change in Palermo, its at his fifth non consecutive term, during its first encountering the enormous problems of predecessors who governed only fpr the mafious.
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  • n the royal apartments of the Royal Palace
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  • Twentieth Century Art at GAM, Galleria Arte Moderna, involved in the project of cultural capital
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  • Ancient ceramic collection in the museum area of ​​Palazzo Branciforte
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  • Twentieth Century Art at GAM, Galleria Arte Moderna, involved in the project of cultural capital
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  • At the Vernissage of the exhibition Endless Migrations at the Reale Albergo delle Povere in the historic center of Palermo. This is a series of installations where the local  artist Carlo Lauricella  narrates the drama of migrations
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  • Zisa Cultural Shipyards, ZAC Contemporary Art Pavilion, Odissey. A large installation of 1300 sq. M. Of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei devoted to migrant routes and designed for Palermo, a city that welcomed its manifesto. A project curated by GAM, the prestigious gallery of Modern Art that will be one of the fulcrums of Palermo 2018
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  • Zisa Cultural Shipyards, ZAC Contemporary Art Pavilion, Odissey. A large installation of 1300 sq. M. Of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei devoted to migrant routes and designed for Palermo, a city that welcomed its manifesto. A project curated by GAM, the prestigious gallery of Modern Art that will be one of the fulcrums of Palermo 2018
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  • The “Pupi” are part of the city's history, despite being over-represented by the few performances that are taking place, several important city museums, such as Branciforte Palace, house historical collections of these puppets
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  • Panorama of the historic center from the Ballarò Tower
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  • One evening in the historic center of Palermo
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  • In La Vucciria market. Street food
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  • In La Vucciria market
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  • Rehalsals at Blue Grass, the historic jazz club in town
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  • A pop music concert in one of Ballarò's squares
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  • The Kalsa, almost circular creek in the port area of ​​Palermo is now a tourist harbor close to  the commercial one as well as a place for walking, jogging and aperitifs
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  • The Kalsa, almost circular creek in the port area of ​​Palermo is now a tourist harbor close to  the commercial one as well as a place for walking, jogging and aperitifs
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  • The Kalsa, almost circular creek in the port area of ​​Palermo is now a tourist harbor close to  the commercial one as well as a place for walking, jogging and aperitifs
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  • The stret food, typical of the town
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  • A street musician in the center of Palermo
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  • Advertising of one of the many small artisan workshops wrought in the old city center, one of the characteristics of today's palermo is the emergence of a network of artisans and creators in general who have implanted the laboratories in old deprived funds
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  • The Alab project combines many young artisans whose workshops are scattered throughout the Old Town, one of the main features of the production being on-site and in a single piece.. In this picture, Angela of Life of the Triscele lab shows its creation inspired by those horses that once used
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  • The Alab project combines many young artisans whose workshops are scattered throughout the Old Town, one of the main features of the production being on-site and in a single piece.. In this image there are brackets made with material reclaimed by the Basura laboratory
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  • The Alab project combines many young artisans whose workshops are scattered throughout the Old Town, one of the main features of the production being on-site and in a single piece..In this picture, leather bags of the Zonzo laboratory
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  • The Alab project combines many young artisans whose workshops are scattered throughout the Old Town, one of the main features of the production being on-site and in a single piece.. In this image Elena and Fabrizio of the Handmade Lab
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  • The Alab project combines many young artisans whose workshops are scattered throughout the Old Town, one of the main features of the production being on-site and in a single piece..
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  • Carmela Dacchille handles an interesting project called Edizioni Precarie, Letter of Food Paper, recycles in various ways what's the paper used to wrap food sold
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  • Carmela Dacchille handles an interesting project called Edizioni Precarie, Letter of Food Paper, recycles in various ways what's the paper used to wrap food sold
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  • Smoda is a defilé that suits every year and sees the creations of young independent designers
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  • Smoda is a defilé that suits every year and sees the creations of young independent designers
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  • Smoda is a defilé that suits every year and sees the creations of young independent designers
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  • "Pani ca Meuza", bread with spleen, typical local sandwich
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  • Advertising of street food
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  • Classic Sicilian cassata
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  • "Mangia e bevi". Eat and drink, or stigghiole, typical street food
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  • “Pastacon le sarde", spaghetti with sardines, typical local food, at the La Buatta restaurant
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  • La buatta restaurant, internal panel
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  • Pasta stuffed with sardines, a creation of Gioacchino Gaglio at gagini restaurant
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  • Aesna Pavia restaurant maid of restaurant Gagini with the chef Gioacchino Gaglio
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