Another day walking around Palermo. Always so much to see and do.
We went first of all up to the Quattro Canti in the centre of town and to Piazza della Pretoria to inspect Francesco Camilliani’s magnificent fountain.
Then on up through the Ballaro Market in search of some nice street food. But by this time it was getting very late and when we finally stopped in the market area they were out of a lot of things and the food wasn’t actually too crash hot.
We then headed off towards the Marrionette Museum (Museo internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino ) but stopped on the way to see the Magnificent Mosaics of Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio, (La Martorana). We went there the other day but there was a wedding on. Thank goodness we went back, it was so superb. The mosaics blow me away completely.
We made it down to the Marionette Museum which was interesting, particularly after seeing the show the other night and we then headed for home as the rain started to come down.
After some downtime we headed out for dinner and (again on the recommendation of our host) found a lovely restaurant in the centre of town called Bisso Bistrot. Nice food and wine.
More tomorrow…18 days until I head home…unreal!!