Palermo book

One after the other, the steps along the streets of Palermo, soles on its balatas, draw the shape of opposites. Palermo is poverty and nobility; slowness and theatrical chaos; whimsy and deference. Palermo is light like no other and darkness that can reach the most remote abysses. Palermo, ultimately, is charm. But a complex charm, never truly accessible. «Palermo is an onion», Roberto Alajmo would say – because when you think you have reached its heart, it shows you another layer. Thus, this little book is intended to be a kind of dictionary. An itinerary among the many selves of the city, which moves through the people who lived it and the words that told it; the stories that have inhabited it and the legends that have colored it; it passes through flavours, waves, scents, domes, saints and traditions. It passes through opposites and pierces the layers, to unmask the crudest beauty, which this city jealously guards. Book in Italian