Palermo

I'm a boy, and I'm 24 years old. I live in Palermo where I study (hard) to become an electronic engineer. Talking about my city is for me quite difficult for two, simple, matters. The first is that when you talk about your city you'd like to write a lot of things, but you'll never can explain how beatiful they are. The second matter is that Palermo, in the world culture, is known for other things... When I'm in a foreign country and I say where I'm from, people ask me if I'm a man of Mafia, and probably they feel scaried by me. But Sicily is not a island of criminality. Sicily is sun and sea. Palermo is culture, the culture of a people with three ...  Read the complete review

Palermo is the capital of Sicily, the island of the tip of the Italian's peninsula's toe. The feeling and temperatures are clearly Mediterranean and if you tour the entire island you will see some of Italy's most classic architecture. The population of Palermo is 730,000 people, about the size of San Francisco. It is a big, bustling city and, unlike some Italian cities, the markets in Palermo are open every day. The main festivals in Palermo are the U Festinu for Palermo's patron saint, Santa Rosalia, which takes place July 10th through July 15th, and the pilgrimage to the grotto of Saint Rosalia, Which takes place September 4th. Palermo is ...  Read the complete review