Show M i A nal aerial view of palermo prepared by the national Natto aal geographic society washington D C 1010 capital of sicily ts Is u PALERMO gem of a city one of tile urban 1 beauty spots of the lie world when one approaches it from frota the ceu c eu the conca doro lies lu in front that shell like alke plain like it gigantic garden garden with monte Pelle grinos red crags on the right fight carpo aranos wooded heights across on the left while monte driff Grif fones ones dark range tills blis tile the back ground round jg modern palermo la Is a medley of the dark old off streets and wide new ones of Alo moorish orish domes doines and modern marble mansions of labyrinths of alleys and a broad marina while no other city of Us its size possesses such splendid parks unit and public and private gardens ian ull liardi ir was the ancients name of palermo which would indicate its reek greek origin though from earliest inscriptions there Is good authority fur for believing it it a chaldean colo colony ny to hegen with whatever its stem stein its greek roman gothic sanf sa W cenec and norman occupations have hare left marked traces on the city of golden shell shelf palermo lias fins been an important marld maritime nie city for more thou than three thousand years in phoenician days it occupied a small pen peninsula insult wa with a wide harbor nearly surrounding it later the lie slit from the inland mountains fill edthe harbor bed which now forms a pirt part of the foundation of modern hiler palermo nio the rim dim white ships of the ship company that triin ti sport passengers froni from tile the italian boot to sicily usually reach li palermo alerino shortly after dawn but palermo appears wideawake hundreds of citizens already are on the dock gh shouting outing greetings to the newcomers or announcing their business ns as representative of tills this or that hotel happy and beautiful tile passengers first glarice glance toward palermo suggests the tingue la felice the happy that it lias has long borne ne anil and rightly ile deserves serves tit the boullt city resembles the alie playing held of tin an enormous natural athletic duill with the suburban hills dotted with palatial villas and citrus groves forming in the elevated stiles sides tile the arena Is I 1 the conen conca doro cloro it was during the eleventh and twelfth centuries lint flint palermo readied reached its height of magnificence under tile lie line q 0 linger and robert d it a which still dalles one in such kill kingly lt gems ns as the lie Ia halutine lutine chapel ano and ohp cathedral nt monreale nowadays palermo with its inhabitants the lie delightful lell center of Sic Siv ilys where re one may hear ext excellent ellent opera or sip sill airl ON in open nir cabos or ian jueri tho ali fashion fashionable nWe promenade ittle illon along tree iree shaded where purl patrio fush fuli ions dominate and abid dirk dark to faces reveal sicilian beauty in it flower A childe childlike ike gaiety ns as tit of nn its endless carnival geeki boek ul sit palermo tilt beams benins tits ills lint cpr a cent fare the ammy 11 nver sellers tie their bouquets of nf blossom atop of long ions poles so bo that one fille to see walking clui tiia of if rows I uin nil ing the lie arod and sem in tile the peasants two wi iri it splendidly colorful altair its I 1 painted M ith fill ch of the crucifix arn anlin lon or of eval cohil ints or of fit piro tiet ling bitle ballet kills girls while file lie im dinv inv ins ing horse la Is d villi n afi duster duste of blue and st si aliet plu aal with ith rows of tiny mirrors di signell to ott off the lie edtl eye eie each street shrine of i f gallit sn lal would a florists lor lits un ll il lit nine in the lie morning one fine fees husi men lilen passing in ilie he be fore tier her to di their votive othe hiu bou en roure roine to their jhc c A saint hv by the wy haghig lived und and died in ili u cave near reappeared durins during a sm entee nih ven tn tury fury plague to tit lie feo vourse urge it if her bono were given chrls chris min hurbie the cercil lony ot of sunvey ing UK her relics through the lie streets takes chire iliac euch ench july while the lie n tal I 1 home nices mid add it guto gu to conca doro arich a rich plain include the carrous ann ous of cauca doro tile the mosi most fertile region of sadly 1 I 1 where rock drilling innone sint ions have tin nn irrigation system which hils has increased the orange and lemon yield draw a line along thet the le islands lands entire north coast to messina then down the whole bength of the east const coast and you will have de demark marked cd Sl Sic ilys ellys lemon bolt belt find of if this the richest spot Is tile the conea conca doro to turn from valerios Pal Val ermos wealth to its poverty one olle hns tits but to thread ltd its tortuous slums shims where v 1 bere iere eye peers tit at one through gli a sliding aiding panel before the he door Is IR opened where two housewives purchase and split a small esh between them hem mid and the street call of 1 I buy hairl hair resounds among the crazy it ts Is a lugubrious experience to watch the hair in merchant erchant finger the braids boulde of souie some growing girl to hear the squalid bargaining over five one murth fourth of a lira more or less before lie snips the black locks into his basket to compute how many ar heart breaks iwerks are represented by the more than dian tons of hurrian hair exported annually 1 by y the western half of sicily might make inake even it statistician we weep p the must exquisite jewel in paler later mos casket Is 19 the capella Va latina built tit at the command of roger hoger SI sic c ilys flys first norman king and son of count roger the cortez and Il Ill mirro of tits time it Is it a metody melody of mosaic art this chapel in flat bernios royal palace not arr inch of th the surface floor walls cupola or roof but Is g gemmel gemmed with exquisite work its colors are softened and blended with age U until it suggests some oriental gli elks tent lent of cashmere em ples beside ide the pulpit stands H very ancient carved white candle 11 14 1 1 icet feet high und and near tile the choir steps swings n magnificent re bousse silver lamp gifts of king hoger to t till tills jeweled chapel ills his fairy want wand created crent cd the conquerors have left their trace in fit lie file palaces of ln la al ana i and ln la cuba and in la bubola tile tatter latter a email ra mulled tilled pavilion in the lie gardens of ln la cuba and the most berfert work in sicily the palaces nie barracks now nov tin and theli beauties have vonnied but at lit lii cuba it was that lint dl 11 found fit hla lost love as described by boccaccio church of san giovanni Glov annl the structure about which perhaps centers the he greatest interim Is ruined church clur cli of if san sail glo il dogil built hy by king roger und and possibly aily con from tinne timie old there arc live round of the sin form ine kovs rin till all alo M hum methin morr aloir und nor nian lire are flut aind ashel and the iove ove ly clola where lite I 1 lie once phd paced ph d till iltz tire H n gar din within Vl liln sail sir 1 1 0 sinasi sintsi Sin tsi agattia Agat lia is s nn ill old lind inutile its will wall tin the muslin of it 11 rist founded by flip h art archbishop 1 Yi alle iller r nf if ormill or mill grim li imant this alil place on in I anster Tue 1282 1 S while title the bwll binig ciui fin ves us pers m murreil that cory tere irown its si villan vespers vis pris the til slaughter tel of if the HIP fl french ironi front pal enno ill tin fury spread over till nil flip 14 until pf af the brench were shian aind charles Cl of if anjou aljon tift froin f ills his jewel of fit ahue above tin fit city ot of on oil I a f liff uli ini the ii nc deio aliat tri of lie cathedral of it mon fon reala realp nihei Nu cuvi vi lite hie grent est st lo 10 it the glor y of lit the lie slid will hi his hir R Il lother of aang anikin in around tim cathelin il 11 dilill its ts most sprung tit up gradually a considerable town frolli froin whose heights the lie enli bonk clotin ain upon nil fill earthly cirt lily ini raille tin the eler elerior for of the lip raillie dral IF p phill and simple Eil giving no nii hint of taw ali glories within ailt titi on no otie one selimir of art for its Is the splendid adm church la Is tit alip work of artists lit IP hulln tn in chape roman lioni iiii in ill ll i Lolon fly by candile in Us its loo Silles greek ili id its sculpture lure 1 lu in its moul dlugg EIgl iteen of tile lie oriental col avre frow from arvelt und ito ilo ining temples all find viii tings are one solid of on n gold |