Piazza Monte di Santa Rosalia
Piazza Monte Santa Rosalia 18, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Palazzo dei Normanni & Cappella Palatina
The Cappella Palatina's gold mosaics are the highlight of Palermo. €15.50–19 depending on the day; book on federicosecondoonline.tm.vivaticket.com.
🕒 Palace + chapel Mon, Thu–Sat 8:30–16:30 · Sun 8:30–12:30 (palace closed Tue & Wed; chapel only those days)
Piazza del Parlamento 3, 90134 Palermo, Italy
Teatro Massimo
Italy's biggest opera house. The guided tour (€12) shows the auditorium and royal box; or catch an opera or concert. Combined ticket with Palazzo Butera €17.
🕒 Tours daily 9:30–19:00 (Apr–Oct) · 9:30–18:00 (Nov–Mar)
Via Maqueda 449, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Chiesa di San Domenico
Piazza San Domenico 16, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Castello a Mare
Via I Castello 3, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Villa Giulia
Via Abramo Lincoln 11, Unit 9, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Loggia dell'Incoronazione
Via dell'Incoronazione 4, 90134 Palermo, Italy
Villa Malfitano Whitaker
Liberty-era villa of the English Whitaker family (Marsala wine merchants), with a large garden of exotic trees.
Via Dante 167, 90141 Palermo, Italy
Riggio (cigar shop)
Via Dante 70, 90138 Palermo, Italy
Teatro Politeama
Piazza Ruggero Settimo, 90139 Palermo, Italy
Via della Libertà (south)
Via della Libertà, 90139 Palermo, Italy
Piazza Croci (Piazza Crispi)
Catch bus 806 to Mondello here. The Giardino Inglese park is right next to the square.
Piazza Francesco Crispi, 90141 Palermo, Italy
Mercato di Ballarò
Panelle e crocchè · Arancine · Stigghiola · Frutta fresca
Piazza Ballarò 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy
La Vucciria
Piazza Caracciolo 2, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Quattro Canti
Via Vittorio Emanuele 308, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Monte Pellegrino & Santa Rosalia
Via alla Statua di San Rosalia, 90142 Palermo, Italy
Giardino Garibaldi (Piazza Marina)
Via Teatro Garibaldi, 90133 Palermo, Italy
GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna
Sicilian painting and sculpture from the 1800s and 1900s, in a former convent. €10.
🕒 Daily 9:30–18:30
Via Sant'Anna 21, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Mondello Beach (La Sirenetta)
A.S.D. La Sirenetta, 90151 Palermo, Italy
Chiesa di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria
Marble-covered baroque church with a rooftop terrace over Piazza Pretoria. In the cloister, I Segreti del Chiostro sells pastries made from the nuns' old recipes. €3.
🕒 Daily 10:00–18:00 (Mar–Oct) · 9:00–17:00 (Nov–Feb)
Discesa dei Giudici 33, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Giardino Garibaldi
Giardino Garibaldi, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Torre di Mondello
Via Torre di Mondello 2B, 90151 Palermo, Italy
Palazzo Abatellis (Galleria Regionale)
Sicily's best old-master gallery: the huge Triumph of Death fresco and Antonello da Messina's Annunciata. €10, free on the first Sunday of the month.
🕒 Tue–Sat 9:00–19:00 · Sun 9:00–13:30 · closed Mon
Via Alloro 4, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Museo Archeologico Antonio Salinas
Greek and Roman Sicily, with the carved temple metopes from Selinunte. €8; also in the Palermo Culture Pass.
🕒 Tue–Sat 9:00–18:30 · Sun 9:00–13:00 · closed Mon
Piazza Olivella 24, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Museo delle Marionette Antonio Pasqualino
Sicilian opera dei pupi (knight puppets) and puppets from around the world. €5, or €10 with a puppet show (show times on museodellemarionette.it).
🕒 Tue–Sat 10:00–18:00 · Sun & Mon 10:00–14:00
Piazzetta Antonio Pasqualino 5, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Castello della Zisa
12th-century summer palace of the Norman kings, now a small museum of Islamic art. €8; free on the first Sunday (book on coopculture.it).
🕒 Tue–Sat 9:00–18:30 · Sun 9:00–13:00 · closed Mon
Piazza Guglielmo il Buono, 90138 Palermo, Italy
Palazzo Butera
Restored noble palace on the old sea wall, filled with an art collection old and new. About €10; combined ticket with Teatro Massimo €17.
🕒 Tue–Sun 10:00–20:00 (check palazzobutera.it)
Via Butera, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Palazzo Steri (Chiaramonte)
14th-century palace that later held the Inquisition: the cells still have prisoners' graffiti. Also home to Guttuso's big Vucciria painting. €8.
🕒 Daily 9:00–19:00 (Mar–Oct) · 9:00–17:00 (Nov–Feb), guided visits
Piazza Marina 59, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Catacombe dei Cappuccini
Corridors lined with thousands of mummified Palermitans in their clothes. Fascinating but macabre; not for everyone. €5.
🕒 Daily 9:00–12:30 & 15:00–17:30
Piazza Cappuccini 1, 90129 Palermo, Italy
San Giovanni degli Eremiti
Red domes over a quiet garden cloister, a few minutes from the Norman palace. €8, free on the first Sunday of the month.
🕒 Mon–Sat 9:00–19:00 · Sun 9:00–13:30
Via dei Benedettini 20, 90134 Palermo, Italy
La Martorana & San Cataldo
Two churches side by side: gold Byzantine mosaics in the Martorana (€2) and the bare red-domed San Cataldo (€2.50). Next to Piazza Pretoria.
🕒 Martorana Mon–Sat 10:00–13:00 (Sun mass only) · San Cataldo daily 10:00–13:30 & 14:00–18:00 (Mar–Oct)
Piazza Bellini 3, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Oratorio di Santa Cita
Walls covered in Giacomo Serpotta's white stucco figures. €6 ticket also covers the Oratorio del Rosario in San Domenico (Via dei Bambinai 2).
🕒 Daily except Tue, 10:00–13:30 & 14:00–18:00 (Mar–Oct) · to 17:00 (Nov–Feb)
Via Valverde 3, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Chiesa del Gesù (Casa Professa)
Every surface inlaid with coloured marble: the most over-the-top baroque interior in town. €2, €6 with the museum. Right by Ballarò market.
🕒 Mon–Sat 9:30–18:30 (16:30 in winter) · Sun masses only
Piazza Casa Professa 21, 90134 Palermo, Italy
Orto Botanico
Old university garden with giant ficus trees and tropical plants; a shady break next to Villa Giulia. €8 (€12 with Palazzo Steri).
🕒 From 9:00 (Sun 10:00); closes 17:00 Nov–Feb, 18:00 Mar & Oct, 19:00 Apr, 20:00 May–Aug
Via Abramo Lincoln 2, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Palazzina Cinese
Chinese-style villa of the Bourbon king at the edge of La Favorita park, on the way to Mondello. €4.
🕒 Tue–Thu 9:00–13:00 · Fri–Sat 9:00–18:00 · closed Mon
Via Duca degli Abruzzi 1, 90146 Palermo, Italy
Giardino Inglese
Via della Libertà, 90141 Palermo, Italy
The giant ficus of Giardino Garibaldi
A Ficus macrophylla planted in 1864: about 30 m tall, with a canopy about 50 m wide and aerial roots that have become extra trunks. Italy's Accademia dei Georgofili calls it the largest tree in Europe. On weekend mornings the antiques market spreads out around it.
Giardino Garibaldi, Piazza Marina, 90133 Palermo, Italy
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