Even though most guidebooks, and even the locals alike, refer to the intersection pictured above as Quattro Canti, its real name is Piazza Vigliena.  This is the point where the city’s two main streets cross: Via Marqueda and Corso Vittorio Emanuele.  Its nickname comes from the fact that there are four sides, and thus four…

Close to our apartment, in the Piazzetta Garraffo, you will find the sculpture known as the Genio del Garraffo, or Palermo lu Grandi.  This statue is the emblem of the city.  The statue symbolizes the genius loci, the metamorphosis of the animal spirit into man.  This is one of the seven representations of the Genio…