Palermo
Palermo is the capital and largest city of the autonomous island region of Sicily in southern Italy, located on the eponymous gulf facing the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Palermo is the capital and largest city of the autonomous island region of Sicily in southern Italy, located on the eponymous gulf facing the Tyrrhenian Sea. A 2,700-year-old city, it is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence.
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Worth seeing in and around Palermo
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 09Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale
World Heritage Site in Sicily, Italy
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Palermo
- Airports
- Falcone–Borsellino (PMO), 24 km · Catania-Fontanarossa (CTA), 167 km · Lamezia Terme Sant'Eufemia (SUF), 267 km
- Stations
- Palermo Centrale railway station, 1.3 km · Palermo-Boccadifalco Airport, 3.4 km
- Catania → Palermo165 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · €21–29
- Lamezia Terme (CZ) → Palermo272 km · quickest by road, 6h 2m · €36–50
- Rome → Palermo426 km · quickest by air, 5h 41m · €160–230
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Palermo
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Palermo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in}} Ferries steam between the port of Palermo and the following several Italian ports on a regular basis: Genoa, Civitavecchia, Naples and Cagliari (Sardinia).
- Get inYou can view and compare schedules and prices for ferries to Palermo on Ferryhopper.
- Get inThere are overnight through trains from Rome, Naples and even Milan via the train ferry across the Strait of Messina.
From Wikivoyage: Palermo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Palermo
- Metropolitan City of PalermoItalian metropolitan city in region of Sicily1 km
- Ciacullihuman settlement in Palermo, Sicily, Italy6 km
- San Martino delle Scalehuman settlement in Monreale, Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy8.8 km