Fly to Palermo

Palermo is the capital city of Island of Sicily in Southern Italy, situated in the North-West of the Gulf of Palermo, surrounded by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and founded by the Phoenicians about 2,700 years ago. Despite Palermo is served by trains and highways that connect the city with mainland, the best way to get there is arriving to the Palermo's international Airport, Aeroporto Internazionale Falcone Borsellino (PMO) located in Punta Raisi, about 20 miles west of the city. Bargain flights and cheap hotels in Palermo are only two of the contributing factors to make of this airport one of the busiest in all Italy. Airline travel packages often include transportation, lodging and city tours visiting some of the most representative buildings in Palermo. Among the city's architectonic treasures the churches of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio, Cappella Palatina, Santa Maria degli Angeli and the Neo-Classical style Cathedral are just a few of the must-visit places you must not miss out. Palermo's buildings showcase a mix of the different cultures that inhabited the city in the past, from Norman to Arabs, Byzantine, French and Spanish. Today you can approach to Palermo's history paying a visit to the Regional Archaeological Museum, The Sicilian Regional Gallery or the modern International Marionettes Museum exhibiting a live testimonial of present times. Another interesting historical buildings in Palermo include Palazzo dei Normanni, Fontana Pretoria, Castello della Zisa, Santa Maria dello Spasimo. Teatro Massimo, Quattro Canti, the Arabic quarter of Kalsa, and the Norman building called La Cuba. Palermo has an impressive park near downtown, the Real Tenuta della Favorita, formerly a hunting ground for the Bourbon court in the 1800s, matching with the Orto botanico, as series of Botanical Gardens dating from the same century and still one of the most important and largest gardens in Europe.