Located in an old palazzo overlooking the sea, Palermo’s Kursaal Kalhesa is a great place to hang out in the evenings. It’s an eclectic fusion of wine bar, restaurant, concert venue and bookshop, with an open-air terrace in the su…

Palermo has a thousand-year-old history, often captured in its libraries. If you decide to spend a period of study or complete an academic thesis there, you can take advantage of its many cultural centres where you will come in co…

To get the full impact of the city’s culture, you must have a night at the opera in Palermo’s Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele. It’s the largest opera house in Italy, designed like an Ancient Greek temple, and where the final scen…