Sat 08.Jul.2023
Palermo, Sicily
Imagery - May 2023
A hot July afternoon in Slovakia - a good time to find a cafe with comfy chairs (there are a few
- not cheap, but the comfy is worth it), and perform a photo-flash-back to May in in the big
Sicilian city.
Enough of this beach town / resort-on-a-ledge stuff! Palermo is the big working city,
hustling, bustling, teeming, multi-ethnic.
At first the shift in gears put me off, but I found myself coming to enjoy the sheer
energy of it all.
The first few overcast days, I kept finding things I wanted pictures of, even if the light
was - shall we say - sub-optimal.
FOOD
The Sun first poked his face through on the day I went to find the waterfront.
Pretty good timing, actually!
Mercato di Capo
A colorful, entertaining street market, devoted (mainly) to food.
On both sides of a narrow little street, food abounds, both to eat here, and to go cook it
at home.
Notice the Greek word for "market". I assume the red and green words are Hebrew and Arabic
for the same thing.
Some of these hardly need pictures. Others are Sicilian specialties: cannolo, cassata, arancine
(arancini in eastern Sicily).
No Feast For Crows here, but jackpot for the pigeons!
In front of the Teatro Massimo huddles a group of young folk, some in festive garb.
They moved together up to the doorstep of the teatro. I could not see clearly what they did up
there, but it looked like a flash wedding ceremony. In mere minutes they were gone. If wedding
it was, it was as non-disruptive as any ever done in Italy!
Were they ever there at all?
This must have been a map of the the medieval Kingdom of Sicily. The three-legged Trinacria
became the Sicilian emblem in Norman times. The building looks medieval enough.
Coming up: more Palermo