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Day trip to Palermo

8/16/2017

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One hour away from Balestrate, Palermo is the biggest city in Sicily and the capital of the region. We did not have a lot of time to wonder around but we enjoyed a lot what we saw. 
It was a lot of fun to discover that they had a car event going on, and although not really into cars, these tiny modified Fiats 500, which seems to be called Abarth 500 look incredibly cute. 
Right next to it in the Giardino Garibaldi park you can find a statue dedicated to the Romanian historian and journalist who died in Palermo, Nicolae Balecescu 
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Romanians in Palermo Nicolae Balcescu statue
and something else we found interesting in the park was the 150 years old ficus trees 
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from here we took direction city center and we ended up in a corner of the city with a lot of street art. I'll have a separate post on it, but here a glimps 
Going further we reached the Church of Saint Dominic, which is  is the second most important church of Palermo after the ancient cathedral.
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Continuing towards the center we reached Teatro Politeama. Designed as a "polytheama", or performance space for a variety of shows, its role in Palermo was to be as central to social life then, as cinema is now. (Source) 
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Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house. It is the biggest in Italy, and one of the largest of Europe, renowned for its perfect acoustics.
The facade resembles a classic temple. A regal flight of steps leads up to a gabled vestibule (pronaos) supported by six corinthian tuff columns on a podium with a monumental staircase flanked by two bronze lions ridden by the allegorical representations of Melody and Opera. (Source)
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after all the walking we  went for a well deserved Italian dinner at Vino & Pomodoro. Address: Via Principe di Belmonte, 87, Palermo, Italy
wine was excellent and we managed to recharge for the road back to Balestrate. 
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