Palermo (ita)

Palermo

Palermo ranks 165th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hiroshima, Dakar, and Honolulu. Memorable people born in Palermo include Sergio Mattarella, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Pope Agatho. Memorable people who died in Palermo include Constantine I of Greece, Sofonisba Anguissola, and Roger II of Sicily. Palermo has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and writers. Palermo is located in Italy.

Palermo is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is in the northwest of the island of Sicily, by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Read more on Wikipedia