"trains to Rome, Turin, Milan, Venice and still 1970s to Paris. It is still not served by EuroStar trains, principally for its position on an island, but it is included in the project of Berlin–Palermo railway axis. Palermo Centrale railway station Palermo Centrale is the main railway station of the Italian city of Palermo, capital of Sicily. It is one of the most important ""FS"" stations of Italy. Along with Catania Centrale, Messina Centrale and Syracuse it is one of the most important stations of its region. It is owned by the ""Ferrovie dello Stato"", the national rail company of"
"Palermo, North Dakota Palermo ( ) is a city in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 74 at the 2010 census. Palermo was founded in 1902. Palermo is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 74 people, 39 households, and 18 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 67 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 95.9% White, 1.4% African American,"
"Palermo, New Jersey Palermo is an unincorporated community in Upper Township, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. Palermo is located northeast of Cape May Court House. The Palermo Air Force Station, closed in 1970, was located south of Palermo. An early settler, Henry Young, arrived in New Jersey aboard a whaling vessel prior to 1700, and established a plantation extending west from Palermo. The Friendship School in Palermo was built around 1830, and was restored in 1980. It is one of the oldest schools in Upper Township. A post office was established in 1872. The Ocean City Railroad"
"Isola delle Femmine Isola delle Femmine (Sicilian: Isula dî Fìmmini) is an Italian town in North-Western Sicily, administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Palermo. Despite its name, which can be translated in English as ""The Island of Women"", the town is located in mainland Sicily; the ""island"" the name refers to lies off the coast near the town, and is currently uninhabited. The etymology of the name is uncertain: a story claims the origins of the name from a females' only prison supposedly located in the island in the 16th century. A more reliable claim is that in the"
"Falcone Borsellino Airport Falcone Borsellino Airport () or simply Palermo Airport, formerly Punta Raisi Airport is located at Punta Raisi, west northwest of Palermo, the capital city of the Italian island of Sicily. It is the second airport of Sicily in terms of passengers after Catania-Fontanarossa Airport, with 5,325,559 passengers handled in 2016. GESAP S.p.a. is the airport management company of """"Falcone Borsellino"""" Airport in Palermo. It has a fully paid-up share capital of €15,912,332 divided between the Regional Province of Palermo, the Comune of Palermo, the Chamber of Commerce, the Comune of Cinisi and other minor partners. Established in"
"under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over. The vast majority of high school students who live in Palermo go to Las Plumas High School. Palermo, California Palermo is a census-designated place (CDP) in Butte County, California, United States. The population was 5,382 at the 2010 census, down from 5,720 at the 2000 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which, 99.95% of it is land and 0.05% is water. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Palermo has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated ""Csa"" on climate"
"Pagliarelli Pagliarelli is a Maximum security prison in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Pagliarelli was built in 1980, became operational in 1996 and it is adjacent and adjoined to the Tribunal of Palermo. The prison is situated behind the mountain ranges of Madonie and is a very large structure and of reinforced concrete (RC), for both men and woman, in the chief town of the island. Pagliarelli is divided into 8 departments: Scirocco (Maestrale and Libeccio), South (or “Mari”: Tirreno, Adriatico and Ionio), and Est (or “Pianeti”: Marte, Plutone and Giove) with a total of almost one thousand inmates. Some rules of"
"Pelagie Islands The Pelagie Islands (, ), from the Greek , meaning ""open sea"", are the three small islands of Lampedusa, Linosa, and Lampione, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, south of Sicily. To the northwest lie the island of Pantelleria and the Strait of Sicily. Geographically part of the archipelago (Lampedusa and Lampione) belongs to the African continent; politically and administratively the islands fall within the Sicilian province of Agrigento and represent the southernmost part of Italy. Despite pockets of agriculture, the islands are unnaturally barren due to wanton deforestation and the disappearance of the native"
"city was $14,028. There were no families and 2.4% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64. Palermo, North Dakota Palermo ( ) is a city in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 74 at the 2010 census. Palermo was founded in 1902. Palermo is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 74 people, 39 households, and 18 families residing in the city. The"
"Palermo, Buenos Aires Palermo is a neighborhood, or ""barrio"" of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. It is located in the northeast of the city, bordering the barrios of Belgrano to the north, Almagro and Recoleta to the south, Villa Crespo and Colegiales to the west and the Río de la Plata river to the east. With a total area of , Palermo is the largest neighborhood in Buenos Aires. As of 1991 it had a population of 256,927 inhabitants (). It is the only ""barrio"" within the administrative division of ""Comuna"" 14. The name of the district is derived from"
"Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale"". The city is also going through careful redevelopment, preparing to become one of the major cities of the Euro-Mediterranean area. Roman Catholicism is highly important in Palermitano culture. The Patron Saint of Palermo is Santa Rosalia whose Feast Day is celebrated on 15 July. The area attracts significant numbers of tourists each year and is widely known for its colourful fruit, vegetable and fish markets at the heart of Palermo, known as ""Vucciria"", ""Ballarò"" and ""Capo"". Palermo lies in a basin, formed by the Papireto, Kemonia and Oreto rivers. The basin"
"Terrasini Terrasini is a town and ""comune"" in the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the island of Sicily in Italy. Terrasini is located west of Palermo at the motorway between Palermo and Trapani, between the mountains and the Gulf of Castellammare near the Palermo International Airport. Terrasini's population works mainly in fishing and tourism. The population triples during the summer. Bounding communes are: Carini, Cinisi, Partinico and Trappeto. The name Terrasini probably derives from Latin ""terra sinus"" = ""land at the gulf"" (the Gulf of Castellamare) or from ""terra sinorum"" = ""land of the bays"" due to the strongly curved"
"to the suburbs, and to Northern Italy. The current birth rate of Palermo is 10.2 births per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9.3 births. , 97.79% of the population was of Italian descent. The largest immigrant group came from South Asia (mostly from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka): 0.80%, other European countries (mostly from Albania, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia and Ukraine): 0.3%, and North Africa (mostly from Tunisia): 0.28%. Evidence of human settlement in the area now known as Palermo goes back to at least the Mesolithic period, perhaps around 8000 BC, where a group of cave drawings at"
"Palmaria (island) Palmaria is an Italian island situated in the Ligurian Sea, at the westernmost end of the Gulf of La Spezia. Measuring , it is the largest island of an archipelago of three closely spaced islands jutting out south from the mainland at Portovenere. The other islands, Tino, and the tiny Tinetto lie further south. In 1997, the archipelago, together with Portovenere and the Cinque Terre, was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The Palmaria island with a surface area of , is the largest of three islands in the Gulf of La Spezia and the Liguria"
"Lampedusa Lampedusa (; ; ) is the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The comune of Lampedusa e Linosa is part of the Sicilian province of Agrigento which also includes the smaller islands of Linosa and Lampione. It is the southernmost part of Italy and Italy's southernmost island. Tunisia, which is about away, is the closest landfall to the islands. Sicily is farther at , whilst the island nation of Malta is to the east. Lampedusa has an area of and a population of about 6,000 people. Its main industries are fishing, agriculture, and tourism."
"History of Palermo Palermo is one of the major cities of Italy, and the historical and administrative capital of Sicily. Human settlement in the Palermo area goes back to prehistoric times. It has one of the most ancient sites in Sicily: Interesting graffiti and prehistoric paintings were discovered in the Addaura grottoes in 1953 by archaeologist Jole Bovio Marconi. They portray dancing figures performing a propitiatory rite, perhaps shamans. In 734 BC Phoenicians from Tyre established a flourishing merchant colony in the Palermo area. The relationship of the new city with the Siculi, the people living in the Eastern part"
"of Palermo by a Papal Bull of Pope Adrian IV on 10 July 1156 and confirmed by Pope Alexander III on 26 April 1160. The former Diocese of Malta, which is one of the oldest dioceses in the world, was elevated to archdiocese on January 1, 1944. Before 1864, the Diocese of Malta included the islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino respectively. On September 22, 1864 the diocese lost the territories of Gozo and Comino when Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Gozo which became a suffragan diocese to Malta. There are two cathedrals in the diocese: The Metropolitan"
"°C and +17 °C, the summer between +28 °C and +30 °C. Lampedusa Lampedusa (; ; ) is the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The comune of Lampedusa e Linosa is part of the Sicilian province of Agrigento which also includes the smaller islands of Linosa and Lampione. It is the southernmost part of Italy and Italy's southernmost island. Tunisia, which is about away, is the closest landfall to the islands. Sicily is farther at , whilst the island nation of Malta is to the east. Lampedusa has an area of and a population"
"Cefalù Cefalù (), the classical Cephaloedium, is a city and comune in the Italian Metropolitan City of Palermo, located on the Tyrrhenian coast of Sicily about east of the provincial capital and west of Messina. The town, with its population of just under 14,000, is one of the major tourist attractions in the region. Despite its size, every year it attracts millions of tourists from all parts of Sicily and also, from all over Italy and Europe. The city's Sicilian name is . It was known to the Greeks as ""Kephaloídion"" () or ""Kephaloidís"" (). These were latinized as ""Cephaloedium"""
"Emperor Frederick II and King Conrad IV. The population of Palermo urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 855,285, while its metropolitan area is the fifth most populated in Italy with around 1.2 million people. In the central area, the city has a population of around 676,000 people. The inhabitants are known as Palermitani or, poetically, ""panormiti"". The languages spoken by its inhabitants are the Italian language and the Palermitano dialect of the Sicilian language. Palermo is Sicily's cultural, economic and tourism capital. It is a city rich in history, culture, art, music and food. Numerous tourists are attracted"
"(Mitre Line), Retiro - Pilar (San Martín Line), and Retiro - Villa Rosa (Belgrano Norte Line). A total of five railway stations are located in Palermo. Inaugurated in 2011, the Metrobus Juan B. Justo also goes through Palermo, though there are no other planned Metrobus lines there. Palermo, Buenos Aires Palermo is a neighborhood, or ""barrio"" of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. It is located in the northeast of the city, bordering the barrios of Belgrano to the north, Almagro and Recoleta to the south, Villa Crespo and Colegiales to the west and the Río de la Plata river to"
"constructed a line through Palermo, and a station was erected there in 1897. The line later became part of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. The line is now abandoned. In 1953, a proposed extension of the Garden State Parkway was to be constructed through Palermo. Several Upper Township farmers complained about the route, including one from Palermo who claimed ""the parkway went through the center of his piggery"". A commission was established to settle disputes between farmers and the Parkway Authority. Palermo, New Jersey Palermo is an unincorporated community in Upper Township, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. Palermo"
"Taormina Taormina (Sicilian: ""Taurmina""; Latin: ""Tauromenium""; , ""Tauromenion"") is a ""comune"" (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy. Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century. Its beaches on the Ionian sea, including that of Isola Bella, are accessible via an aerial tramway built in 1992, and via highways from Messina in the north and Catania in the south. On May 26–27, 2017 Taormina hosted the 43rd G7 summit. The area around Taormina was inhabited by the Siculi even before the Greeks arrived on the Sicilian coast in"
"and Italians from the colder climates seeking the warm water and sun. Balestrate Balestrate (Sicilian: Sicciara) is a ""comune"" (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in the Italian region Sicily, located about southwest of Palermo. As of 31 July 2015, it had a population of 6,505 and an area of . Located in Western Sicily, on the rail line between Palermo and Trapani, Balestrate is exactly in the center of the Gulf of Castellamare. Balestrate borders the following municipalities: Alcamo, Partinico, Trappeto. The Coat of Arms of Balestrate with its Norman crown, honors ""Sicciara,"" the town’s original name, with"
"Porto Palermo Castle Porto Palermo Castle (Albanian: ""Kalaja e Porto Palermos"") is a castle near Himarë in southern Albania. It is situated in the bay of Porto Palermo, a few kilometers south of Himarë along the Albanian Riviera. Huffington Post ranked Porto Palermo first among 15 Undiscovered European Destinations for 2014. The area together with Llamani beach will be proclaimed a protected area holding the status of Protected Landscape by the Albanian Government. The well preserved castle is commonly, but wrongly, asserted, by guide books and the local tourist guides, to have been built in early 19th century by Ali"
"others (larger) being in southern Calabria (close to Reggio Calabria). The nature reserve, covering all three islands, was instituted in 2002. Pelagie Islands The Pelagie Islands (, ), from the Greek , meaning ""open sea"", are the three small islands of Lampedusa, Linosa, and Lampione, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, south of Sicily. To the northwest lie the island of Pantelleria and the Strait of Sicily. Geographically part of the archipelago (Lampedusa and Lampione) belongs to the African continent; politically and administratively the islands fall within the Sicilian province of Agrigento and represent the southernmost part"
"was named the ""Conca d'Oro"" (the Golden Basin) by the Arabs in the 9th century. The city is surrounded by a mountain range which is named after the city itself. These mountains face the Tyrrhenian Sea. Palermo is home to a natural port and offers excellent views to the sea, especially from Monte Pellegrino. Palermo experiences a hot-summer subtropical Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: ""Csa"") that is mild with moderate seasonality. Summers are very long, hot and dry due to the domination of subtropical high pressure system, while winters experience moderate temperatures and changeable, rainy weather due to the polar"
"at anchor. Near it are some warehouses, a custom-house, and a Greek church."" Porto Palermo Castle Porto Palermo Castle (Albanian: ""Kalaja e Porto Palermos"") is a castle near Himarë in southern Albania. It is situated in the bay of Porto Palermo, a few kilometers south of Himarë along the Albanian Riviera. Huffington Post ranked Porto Palermo first among 15 Undiscovered European Destinations for 2014. The area together with Llamani beach will be proclaimed a protected area holding the status of Protected Landscape by the Albanian Government. The well preserved castle is commonly, but wrongly, asserted, by guide books and the"
"Palmarola Palmarola is a craggy, mostly uninhabited island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy. It is the second largest of the Pontine Islands and located about west from Ponza. Palmarola has an extremely rocky coast dotted with natural grottos, bays, cliffs, and crags. The island is primarily a nature reserve, but there are a handful of ports where boats can land and several restaurants that cater to tourists during the summer season. A few small beaches exist. The famous French explorer and oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau appointed Palmarola as ""The most Beautiful Island in the Mediterranean Sea"""
"University of Palermo The University of Palermo () is a university located in Palermo, Italy, and founded in 1806. It is organized in 12 Faculties. The University of Palermo was officially founded in 1806, although its earliest roots date back to 1498 when medicine and law were taught there. A little later in history, from the second half of the 16th century from their seat at the Collegio Massimo al Cassero, the Jesuit Fathers granted degrees in Theology and Philosophy - subjects in which they had been masters for over 200 years. In 1767 they were expelled from the kingdom"
"Portopalo di Capo Passero Portopalo di Capo Passero (Sicilian: Puortupalu) is a ""comune"" (municipality) in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily (Italy). The southernmost commune of the island of Sicily, it is about southeast of Palermo and about southwest of Syracuse. As of February 2017, it had a population of 3,916 and an area of . The nearest city is Pachino with a population of nearly 10,000. Portopalo belonged to the municipality of Pachino until 1975 when it became an autonomous municipality itself. Portopalo is widely considered to have some of the best fishing that the Mediterranean area has to offer"
"Petralia Sottana Petralia Sottana () is a town and ""comune"" in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, in the island of Sicily, southern Italy. The main characters in Emanuele Crialese's 2006 film of Sicilian immigration to America, ""Nuovomondo"", come from the town of Petralia. The Madonie Mountains cover the commune. The commune is on the border between the Metropolitan City of Palermo and the Province of Caltanissetta . It is bounded by the communes of Alimena, Blufi, Caltanissetta, Castelbuono, Castellana Sicula, Geraci Siculo, Isnello, Marianopoli, Petralia Soprana, Polizzi Generosa, Resuttano, Santa Caterina Villarmosa, Villalba. The coat of arms shows three lilies,"
"Santa Caterina, Palermo The Church of Saint Catherine (Italian: Chiesa di Santa Caterina or simply Santa Caterina) is a church in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. It is located in the heart of the historic centre, between Piazza Bellini and Piazza Pretoria, in the same area of other well-known architectural landmarks like the churches of Martorana and San Cataldo (both of them are World Heritage Sites), the Fontana Pretoria and the Palazzo Pretorio, headquarters of the Palermo municipality. The church is a synthesis of Sicilian Baroque, Rococo and Renaissance styles. In 1310 the last will of the rich Benvenuta Mastrangelo determined"