Car Hire Palermo

A great way to get to know the city is to organise a themed route. For example, you could start by looking for monuments and buildings built during the nineteenth century and characterized by the Liberty style. So you can discover the Teatro Massimo, inaugurated in 1897 and dedicated to promoting the opera season and ballet; the Ducrot warehouses - Cantieri Culturali della Zisa, at that time the industrial headquarters of the Ducrot company, a manufacturer of Liberty-style furniture, today a place for exhibitions; the castle Utveggio, the exclusive Grand Hotel; the fountain of the seahorse, by Ignazio Marabitti.

After that, you could hire an Avis vehicle and go to visit the numerous archaeological sites in the area. Worthy of note are certainly:
 

• the caves of Addaura, where findings from the Palaeolithic era have been found;
• the archaeological area Entella, naturally fortified and defended by walls that should date back to the 6th Century
• the island of Ustica, which was inhabited since prehistoric times and which preserves traces from the 2nd millennium BC to the Roman period
• the Niscemi cave, also from the Paleolithic age
• the area of ​​Solunto, where there are the remains of an ancient Roman Hellenic center

Or you could admire the monuments scattered around the city and made by the 18th century masters of Palermo, such as the oratory of San Filippo Neri, the church of Santa Maria degli Agonizzanti, the Palazzo Comitini (now the seat of the provincial administration), or the Prince of Ramacca palace, not open to the public because it is private.

Finally, why not dedicate yourself to the discovery of the monuments of the Gothic-Renaissance period? In the city there are several palaces and many churches that date back to this period: from the Pretoria fountain to the Archbishop's palace to the church of San Francesco d'Assisi, passing that of San Giorgio dei Genovesi.

The city of Palermo and its surroundings have been able to preserve their traditions through historical re-enactments and religious events.

Jump into your Avis rental car and drive to Altavilla Milicia, a small ancient village about twenty kilometers from the Sicilian capital. Here, from 6 to 8 September every year, we celebrate the feast of the Madonna di Loreto, one of the most important festivals in western Sicily.

The month of December will be an opportunity to experience the devotional fervor of this period through the feast of St. Nicholas on the 6th of the month; the following day the Virgin Mary is celebrated with a pilgrimage to the church of San Francesco d'Assisi. While the 13th is held as the feast of Saint Lucia, the shortest day of the year.

On Easter Monday you may attend the party of the "outspoken", the celibates of the country, who every year challenge each other to raise an orange tree to the sky, adorned with trinkets and ribbons, using only one arm.

The ancient markets represent another way to discover the traditions of a people by observing their pulsating life. The markets are open every day, from morning until evening. La Vucciria is the oldest and most popular (Piazza Caracciolo), while the Capo and that of Ballarò are the most popular. The market of Borgo Vecchio is also very interesting to visit. If you are interested in antique furniture and antiques, then you should visit the flea market behind the Cathedral in Piazza Peranni, or that of the Giardino Garibaldi, open only on Saturdays and Sundays.

A quote from the tradition of "Puparu" that tells the deeds of the paladins of France with the puppet theaters. An ancient profession, difficult to carry forward in today's technological world, but which still survives in this land. UNESCO has recognized the Pupi theater as a masterpiece of the heritage of humanity.

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