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After many years of success in Milan, Il Bar brings its café and cocktail bar to the fourth-floor food hall of Rinascente on Via Roma, in the heart of Palermo. Open throughout the day and night, it serves breakfast, lunch, dinner and aperitivi, with a well-made selection ranging from Italian classics to sparkling cocktails and signature creations.
Seven Restaurant Rooftop Garden Palermo is a special place among the rooftops of Palermo, offering a breathtaking view over the city’s wonders. Under the Sicilian sky, it is a graceful setting for beginning the day or taking a relaxing, rejuvenating break in the heart of the city.
Built over earlier Greek structures on the slopes of Montevergine hill, Catania’s Roman Theatre comprises the ruins of two open-air semicircular theatres in the city centre. Constructed in lava stone and once accommodating around 7,000 spectators, it offers a striking glimpse into Catania’s ancient theatrical heritage.
A bustling, historic Palermo icon, Sferracavallo is a non-stop parade of culinary tradition. It practically invented the legendary fixed seafood menu concept that bears its name.
Housed in a vast former Studio Ducrot factory, once renowned across Europe for its 20th-century furniture design, ZACentrale is one of Palermo’s most significant contemporary art venues. Managed by Fondazione Merz, it occupies 17,000 square feet and serves as a hub for innovative interdisciplinary artistic practice.
San Gaetano alle Grotte is a small church in Catania whose ancient substructure was putatively built around 260–300 as a chapel, perhaps a burial chapel, within a lava cave used as a cistern. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, it faces Piazza Carlo Alberto, beside the Santuario della Madonna del Carmine.
The Terme dell’Indirizzo are an exceptional Roman thermal complex from the imperial era, set in Piazza Currò in Catania’s historic centre and partly incorporated into the former convent of Santa Maria dell’Indirizzo. Built in lava stone and brick, the remains include around ten rooms beneath their original vaults, notably a large octagonal chamber with a domed roof, alongside the former calidarium and frigidarium.
Palazzo Abatellis is a majestic late-fifteenth-century residence in Palermo’s Kalsa quarter, built in the Gothic-Catalan style for Francesco Patella, known as Abatellis, port master of the kingdom and praetor of the city. Commissioned from the architect Matteo Carnalivari, it now houses the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, the region’s gallery of art.
Family Affair B&B Palermo offers a distinctive way to discover the city from its commercial heart, close to Piazza Politeama, Via Libertà and Via Ruggero VII. Its refined yet familiar spaces respect the building’s late 19th-century architecture, a graceful expression of Sicilian Art Nouveau, with careful attention to detail and comfort.
First Call is a cinema-themed cocktail bar in a converted old stable in central Palermo, with projector screens, vintage furniture and film memorabilia creating the atmosphere of a film set. Friendly bartenders craft personalised drinks such as the tamarind-spiked Wilson, while film buffs and locals chat over complimentary popcorn—an easy choice for a date night or a break from the city’s tourist bustle.