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15 unusual facts about Palermo


Alcamo wine

It includes red, white, rose wines produced in Alcamo, an historical city located south-west of Palermo and east of Trapani province.

Delia Parodi

The experience earned her a promotion as a local ombudsman in the Las Cañitas section of Palermo (today an upscale ward in Buenos Aires).

Ducrot SLD

During the latter half of World War I, Ing Manlio Stiavelli and Guido Luzzatti of the firm of Vittorio Ducrot at Palermo designed a high-performance fighter in an attempt to allow the company to progress from license production of flying boats designed elsewhere to producer of originally designed aircraft.

Eduardo Catalano

Eduardo Catalano also created the environmental kinetic sculpture Floralis Genérica in Palermo, Buenos Aires.

Fondo Protonotaro

Fondo Protonotaro is a collection of documents at the state Archive of Palermo, in which are registered, among other records, all the acts pertaining to baronies and other feudal properties in Sicily before the abolition of feudalism in 1812.

Francisco Maschio

His stables ( named Stud Yeruá ) was localized at Olleros Street, Palermo, Buenos Aires, near the actual Olleros Station.

Giuseppe Genco Russo

Genco Russo was present at a series of meetings between top American and Sicilian mafiosi that took place in Palermo between October 12–16, 1957, in Hotel Delle Palme in Palermo.

Islam in Argentina

The project cost around US$30 million, and includes a mosque, library, two schools, a park, is located in the middle-class district of Palermo, Buenos Aires.

Kabakov's Installations

Originally exhibited in Palermo, Italy, in 1999, the monument includes 38 installations out of a self-declared oeuvre of 140 artworks.

Mazzarino Friars

Despite the public prosecutor quickly managed to gather many unquestionable evidence and accounts about the role of the friars, clerical supporters (mostly linked to the Democrazia Cristiana Church and other Catholic institutions), led by the Palermo Archbishop Ernesto Ruffini, promptly stated that the friars were innocent victims of a trap by anti-Catholic forces.

Palazzo Riso

The Palazzo Riso, or RISO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia (RISO, Contemporary Art Museum of Sicily also known as Palazzo Belmonte Riso), is a regional contemporary art museum located in the ancient Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Palermo, Italy.

Palermo-Boccadifalco Airport

The original site was under joint military-civil use until 1 January 2009, when the Italian aviation authority ENAC, acquired sole use of the airport.

Pietro Ranzano

Pietro Ranzano (1428–1492) was a Dominican friar, historian, humanist and scholar who is best known for his work, De primordiis et progressu felicis Urbis Panormi, a history of the city of Palermo from its beginnings up until the contemporary period in which Ranzano was writing.

Ricardo Primitivo González

Ricardo Primitivo González (born May 12, 1925) is an Argentine former basketball player of Club Atlético Palermo, one of the oldest clubs in Palermo, who captained the Argentine national team that won the 1950 FIBA World Championship.

Rocco Jemma

In 1893 he became Director of Pediatric Clinic in Palermo.


1969 in organized crime

December 10 - Michele Cavataio and three of his men are killed in the Viale Lazio in Palermo by a Mafia hit squad including Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella (an elder brother of Leoluca Bagarella the brother-in-law of Totò Riina), Emanuele D’Agostino of Stefano Bontade’s Santa Maria di Gesù Family and Damiano Caruso a soldier of Giuseppe Di Cristina, the Mafia boss of Riesi.

2001 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia

The 2001 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Palermo in Italy and was part of the International Series of the 2001 ATP Tour.

2002 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia

The 2002 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Palermo in Italy and was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour.

2003 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia

The 2003 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Palermo in Italy and was part of the International Series of the 2003 ATP Tour.

2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup

1After consultations with UEFA, Italian qualifier Palermo was withdrawn by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) on 6 June 2006.

Alexandros Panagoulis

While in prison his first collection in Italian titled Altri seguiranno: poesie e documenti dal carcere di Boyati (Others will Follow: Poetry and Documents of the Prison of Boyati) was published in Palermo in 1972 with an introduction of the Italian politician Ferruccio Parri and the Italian film director and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Angelo Mangiarotti

Angelo Mangiarotti taught at Istituto Superiore di Disegno Industriale of Venice (1963–64), University of Hawaii (1970), Ecole Politecnique Fédérale of Losanna (1974), University of Adelaide and South Australian Institute of Technology of Adelaide (1976), Architecture of Palermo (1982), Architecture of Florence (1983) and Architecture of Politecnico di Milano (1989–90).

Antonio Candreva

On 2 September 2012, Candreva scored his first goal for Lazio in the 2012–2013 season when Lazio defeated Palermo in a 3–0 victory following Miroslav Klose's 2 goals.

Antonio Salamone

In 1970, the Court of Palermo ordered a five-year internal exile in Sacile in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-east Italy.

Avenida Santa Fe

The artery is essential to the imaginary axis of Barrio Norte in Buenos Aires, comprising the areas influenced by the route of the avenue through Retiro, Recoleta and Palermo neighborhoods, it is considered one of the main shopping and strolling areas of the city, its many boutiques range from elegant to edgy, which has led it to be dubbed the 'Avenue of Fashion'.

Bruno Contrada

Bruno Contrada (born September 2, 1931) is the former police chief of Palermo and deputy director of the civil intelligence service SISDE who was arrested based on revelations of former Sicilian Mafiosi turned pentiti, Gaspare Mutolo and Giuseppe Marchese.

Čestmír Vycpálek

He started his coaching career for Palermo, where he relocated with his family after Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Soviet Red Army after the Prague Spring.

Domenico Piccichè

Among his musical partners, soprano Arpiné Rahdjian, violist Demetrio Comuzzi, cellists Luca Pincini and Giorgio Gasbarro (first cellist at Palermo Teatro Massimo), dancer Oriella Dorella (étoile at Teatro alla Scala, Milan).

Ernesto Bosch

He commissioned French architect René Sergent in 1910 to design a mansion in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires, and contracted the Parisian interior designer André Carlhian and landscaper Charles Thays.

Fibonacci

Flos (1225), solutions to problems posed by Johannes of Palermo

Filarete of Calabria

Saint Filarete of Calabria (also the gardener) (c. 10201070) he was born in Palermo in 1020, into a family of Calabrian origin deported to Sicily by the Saracens, and subsequently released.

Frank Scarabino

The hit was requested by reputed Gambino crime family Boss John Gotti of New York, and Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi, Boss of the DeCavalcante family, accepted his request, and contracted Scarabino, Capo, Gallo and Palermo for the task.

Gaspare Pulizzi

Pulizzi was one of Lo Piccolo’s soldiers in the power struggle with Antonio Rotolo in Palermo.

Gianni Nicchi

Authorities issued 52 arrest warrants against the top echelon of Cosa Nostra in the city of Palermo (Operation Gotha).

Lennart Skoglund

After 13 years as a pro in Italy, where he also played for Sampdoria and Palermo, he returned to his native Södermalm and Hammarby in 1964.

Libero Grassi

In 2006, not long after Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was arrested, a hundred shopkeepers in Palermo publicly declared their refusal to pay extortion to the Mafia, with Grassi's widow Pina Maisano, and son and daughter Davide and Alice, in attendance at public rallies denouncing the Mafia, jointly with the Addiopizzo movement.

Marie-Luise Marjan

She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama Smog and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter (Palermo oder Wolfsburg, Tag der Idioten) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz).

Mario Amato

Mario Amato (24 November 1937, in Palermo – 23 June 1980, in Rome) was an Italian magistrate, assassinated in 1980 by NAR (Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari) members Gilberto Cavallini and Luigi Ciavardini.

Martorana

Although the convent no longer exists, frutta di Martorana are still one of Palermo's most famous and distinctive foodstuffs.

Michele Cavataio

Cavataio and three of his men were killed on December 10, 1969, in the Viale Lazio – a modern street in the smart new northern area of Palermo – by a Mafia hit squad including Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella (an elder brother of Leoluca Bagarella the brother-in-law of Totò Riina), Emanuele D’Agostino of Stefano Bontade’s Santa Maria di Gesù Family, Gaetano Grado and Damiano Caruso a soldier of Giuseppe Di Cristina, the Mafia boss of Riesi.

Michele Pantaleone

Michele Pantaleone (Villalba 1911 – Palermo, February 12, 2002) was a respected journalist and expert on the Sicilian Mafia and one of the first to shed light on the links between organized crime and political power.

Miguel de la Grúa Talamanca, 1st Marquis of Branciforte

Don Miguel de la Grúa Talamanca de Carini y Branciforte, 1st Marqués de Branciforte (Palermo, Sicily, ca 1755 – Marseille, June 1, 1812) was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain from July 12, 1794 to May 31, 1798.

Misfortune

Misfortune is an Italian fairy tale, from Palermo, collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales.

Myers Foggin

Foggin’s international concert pianist career included appearances in Paris, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Malta and Algiers.

Niccolò Turrisi Colonna

Niccolò Turrisi Colonna (August 10, 1817 - May 13, 1889), baron of Buonvicino, was a Sicilian politician from Palermo.

Nympha

Nympha (Ninfa), a 5th-century virgin Christian martyr from Palermo

Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale

The Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale is a logarithmic scale used by astronomers to rate the potential hazard of impact of a near-earth object (NEO).

Palermo Union School District

Palermo Union School District (PUSD) is a public school district based in Butte County, California, United States.

Paul Langerhans

In search of a cure, he travelled to Naples, Palermo, the island of Capri, and underwent treatments at Davos and Silvaplana in Switzerland, but all in vain: he was forced to apply for release from his university duties.

Petrus Christus

The composition of a Lamentation, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, seems so closely inspired a marble relief by Antonello Gagini in the cathedral at Palermo that it has been suggested that the picture may have been painted for an Italian client.

Piazza Pretoria

Piazza Pretoria also known as square of Shame is at the limits of the district of Kalsa, near the corner of Cassaro with Via Maqueda, just a few meters from the Quattro Canti, the exact center of the historic city of Palermo .

Pizzolungo bombing

It was set to detonate as deputy prosecutor Carlo Palermo traveled from his house in Bonagia to the Palace of Justice in Trapani in an armored Fiat 132 followed by an unarmored Fiat Ritmo.

Polizzi

Polizzi Generosa, a town in the Province of Palermo on the island of Sicily, Italy

Radio Classica

Radio Classica is broadcast locally in the cities of Milan, Rome, Florence, Turin, Verona, Bari, Palermo, Como and Upper Brianza, Latina, Lecco and Genoa.

Richard J. Burke

He was married on October 19, 1940 to Josephina Battaglia the daughter of Carmelo Battaglia of Monte Maggiore Belsito, Palermo, Sicily, and Antonia Fasulo of Burgio, Agrigento, Sicily.

Sack of Palermo

More serious than the wartime destruction of the old city was the political decision to turn away from its restoration in favour of building a “new Palermo”, at first concentrated at the northern end, beyond the Art Nouveau neighbourhood of 19th century expansion.

Salvatore Sirigu

In 2005 he joined Palermo and made his debut for the club as a regular in a 2006–07 Coppa Italia match against Sampdoria and a UEFA Cup match against Fenerbahçe.

Seventh United States Army

The headquarters of the Seventh Army remained relatively inactive at Palermo, Sicily, and Algiers until January 1944, when Lieutenant General Mark Clark was assigned as commander and the Army began planning for the invasion of southern France.

Socialite

Palermo's fame came after being on the reality television show The City (MTV series), which focused on the lives of Whitney Port and her friends.

Stefano Morrone

After Venezia's owner Maurizio Zamparini purchased Palermo, he joined the Sicily side along with team-mate: Daniel Andersson, Bilica, Igor Budan, Francesco Ciullo, Kewullay Conteh, Di Napoli, Valentino Lai, Filippo Maniero, Antonio Marasco, Francesco Modesto, Frank Ongfiang, Generoso Rossi, Mario Santana, Evans Soligo, Ighli Vannucchi and William Viali.

Tony Palermo

When Papa Roach drummer Dave Buckner was sent to rehab in 2007, the band asked Tony Palermo if he would be willing to play drums for the band live.