The food festival in Sicily is an annual event that runs throughout the month of September. In Bronte in the province of Catania, taste pistachio in all its forms and dine at markets and outdoor festivals across the island. ETG tip: Be sure to save space for the gelato...
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Sicily - Palermo (PDF Chapter)
Flamboyant, guarded, feisty yet staunchly aristocratic, Palermo is a seething mass of contradictions. Enter a church full of Byzantine mosaics, wander along a street of stately baroque palaces or eavesdrop on banter between market stall owners and bargain-hunting housewives here.
- bask in Palermo’s heady multicultural past amid Byzantine mosaics and Arabic marble-work at Cappella Palatina
- demand an encore at Teatro Massimo, one of Europe’s opera house belles
- dive into a gut-rumbling torrent of buxom produce at Mercato di BallarĂ², and take in the heady aromas and hollering market vendors
Coverage includes: Palermo, Historic Palermo, Albergheria & Capo, Vucciria & La Kalsa, New City, Baroque Cathedrals, Palermo Region, Mondello, Monreale, Corleone and Ustica.
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