Palermo — Anna Staropoli — A Geographic Diary

5 p.m. on Via Chiavettieri is when balconies drop buckets, euros clattering in metal pails over rusted railings.

On Sunday evenings in Sicily’s capital, I join the rest of Palermo at the Four Corners where the city’s cardinal landmarks connect.

Sicily — On Observing

I like to sit on my balcony and look down at the world below.

Sicily — On Late Night Loneliness

Manhattan is supposed to be the city that never sleeps but Palermo is the city that is always awake.

Sicily — On Belonging

Of course I find myself in Piazza S. Anna right as I begin to doubt whether this is a city that will take me and just me.