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Palermo

Palermo is on the northern coast of the island of . It is a city with a thousand years of history, beautiful Arab-Norman architecture, amazing food, and lively neighbourhoods.
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  • Type: City with 628,000 residents
  • Description: Italian city, capital of Sicily
  • Also known as: “Palermo, Italy”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Palatine Chapel and Teatro Massimo.

Museum
Photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The /ˈpælətaɪn ˈtʃæpəl/ is the royal chapel of the in Palermo, . This building is a mixture of Byzantine, Norman and Fatimid architectural styles, showing the tricultural state of Sicily during the 12th century after Roger I and Robert Guiscard conquered the island.

Theater building
Photo: Vitoparisi92, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, . It was dedicated to King Victor Emanuel II.

Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo, located in Palermo, , . It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Albergaria, Palermo and Monte di Pietà, Palermo.

Neighborhood
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Albergaria or Albergheria, also known as Palazzo Reale, is a historical quarter of the city of Palermo in . The district is southwest of .

Neighborhood
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Monte di Pietà, also called Seralcadi, Seralcadio, or il Capo, is one of the original quarters of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. The four original districts were established during the Spanish rule of Palermo.

Neighborhood
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Castellammare, also called La Loggia, is one of the original quarters of Palermo, region of , Italy. The four original districts or mandamenti were established during the Spanish rule of Palermo.

Palermo

Latitude
38.1112° or 38° 6′ 40″ north
Longitude
13.3524° or 13° 21′ 9″ east
Population
628,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
PMO
United Nations Location Code
IT PMO
Open location code
8FCM4962+FX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 67253662
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2523920
Wiki­data ID
Q2656
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Palermo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Palermo”
  • Albanian: “Palermo”
  • Amharic: “ፓሌርሞ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πάνορμος”
  • Arabic: “بالرمو”
  • Arabic: “باليرمو”
  • Arabic: “بلرم”
  • Arabic: “بَلَرْم”
  • Arabic: “بلرمة”
  • Aragonese: “Palermo”
  • Armenian: “Պալերմո”
  • Arpitan: “Palèrmo”
  • Asturian: “Palermo”
  • Asturian: “Palermu”
  • Aymara: “Palermo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Palermo”
  • Balinese: “Palérmo”
  • Bashkir: “Палермо”
  • Basque: “Palermo”
  • Belarusian: “Палерма”
  • Bengali: “পালেমো”
  • Bengali: “পালের্মো”
  • Bosnian: “Palermo”
  • Breton: “Palermo”
  • Bulgarian: “Палермо”
  • Cajun French: “Palerme”
  • Catalan: “Palerm”
  • Cebuano: “Palermo”
  • Central Kurdish: “پالێرمۆ”
  • Chechen: “Палермо”
  • Chinese: “Palermo”
  • Chinese: “巴勒摩”
  • Chinese: “巴勒莫”
  • Chinese: “巴勒莫市”
  • Chinese: “帕勒莫”
  • Chuvash: “Палермо”
  • Corsican: “Palermu”
  • Cree: “Palermo”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Palermo”
  • Croatian: “Palermo”
  • Czech: “Palermo”
  • Danish: “Palermo”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Palermo”
  • Dutch: “Palermo”
  • Eastern Mari: “Палермо”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پاليرمو”
  • Esperanto: “Palermo”
  • Estonian: “Palermo”
  • Extremaduran: “Palermu”
  • Finnish: “Palermo”
  • French: “Palerme”
  • French: “Panormos”
  • French: “Panormus”
  • French: “παν-όρμος”
  • Friulian: “Palermo”
  • Galician: “Palermo”
  • Georgian: “პალერმო”
  • German: “Palermo”
  • Greek: “Παλέρμο”
  • Gujarati: “પલેર્મો”
  • Hausa: “Palermo”
  • Hebrew: “פלרמו”
  • Hindi: “पलेर्मो”
  • Hungarian: “Palermo”
  • Icelandic: “Palermo”
  • Ido: “Palermo”
  • Inari Sami: “Palermo”
  • Indonesian: “Palermo”
  • Interlingua: “Palermo”
  • Interlingue: “Palermo”
  • Irish: “Palermo”
  • Italian: “Palermo (PA)”
  • Italian: “Palermo”
  • Italian: “Palermu”
  • Japanese: “パレルモ”
  • Javanese: “Palermo”
  • Kabyle: “Palermu”
  • Kannada: “ಪಲೆರ್ಮೋ”
  • Kannada: “ಪಲೇರ್ಮೋ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Palermo”
  • Kazakh: “Палермо”
  • Kirghiz: “Палермо”
  • Korean: “팔레르모”
  • Kotava: “Palermo”
  • Kurdish: “Palermo”
  • Ladin: “Palermo”
  • Latin: “Panormus”
  • Latvian: “Palermo”
  • Ligurian: “Palermo”
  • Limburgan: “Palermo”
  • Lithuanian: “Palermas”
  • Lombard: “Palermo”
  • Low German: “Palermo”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Palermo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Palermo”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Palermo”
  • Macedonian: “Палермо”
  • Malay: “Palermo”
  • Malayalam: “പലേർമോ”
  • Maltese: “Palermo”
  • Marathi: “पालेर्मो”
  • Mazanderani: “پالرمو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palermo”
  • Mingrelian: “პალერმო”
  • Moksha: “Палэрма”
  • Moksha: “Палэрмо”
  • Mongolian: “Палермо”
  • Neapolitan: “Palermo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Palermo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palermo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palermo”
  • Norwegian: “Palermo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Palèrme”
  • Ossetian: “Палермо”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਲੇਰਮੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Palermo”
  • Persian: “پالرمو”
  • Piemontese: “Palerm”
  • Polish: “Palermo”
  • Portuguese: “Palermo”
  • Pushto: “پالرمو”
  • Quechua: “Palermo”
  • Romanian: “Palermo”
  • Russian: “Палермо”
  • Rusyn: “Палермо”
  • Sango: “Palermo”
  • Sanskrit: “पलेर्मो”
  • Sardinian: “Palermo”
  • Scots: “Palermo”
  • Serbian: “Палермо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palermo”
  • Sicilian: “Palermu”
  • Silesian: “Palermo”
  • Sindhi: “پاليرمو”
  • Sinhala: “පලේර්මෝ”
  • Sinhala: “පැලර්මෝ”
  • Slovak: “Palermo”
  • Slovenian: “Palermo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالرمو”
  • Spanish: “Palermo”
  • Swahili: “Palermo”
  • Swedish: “Palermo”
  • Swiss German: “Palermo”
  • Tagalog: “Palermo”
  • Tajik: “Палермо”
  • Talysh: “Palermo”
  • Tamil: “பலெர்மோ”
  • Tatar: “Palermo”
  • Tatar: “Палермо”
  • Telugu: “పాలెర్మో”
  • Tetum: “Palermo”
  • Thai: “ปาแลร์โม”
  • Tok Pisin: “Palermo”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Palermo”
  • Turkish: “Palermo”
  • Turkmen: “Palermo”
  • Twi: “Palermo”
  • Ukrainian: “Палермо”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Palermo”
  • Urdu: “پالیرمو”
  • Uzbek: “Palermo”
  • Venetian: “Pałermo”
  • Veps: “Palermo”
  • Vietnamese: “Palermo”
  • Volapük: “Palermo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palermo”
  • Welsh: “Palermo”
  • Western Frisian: “Palermo”
  • Western Panjabi: “پلرمو”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴勒莫”
  • Xhosa: “Palermo”
  • Yiddish: “פאלערמא”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴勒摩”
  • Zeeuws: “Palermo”
  • “Palerme”
  • “Palermo”
  • “Palèrum”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Palermo”. Photo: Gabrios1984, CC BY-SA 3.0.