A local’s guide to Palermo, Sicily: 10 top tips

It may still be basking in the glow of being Italian Capital of Culture 2018 but the city has been a cultural melting pot since antiquityThe Sicilian capital, called the “Kingdom of the sun” by invading Normans in the 12th century, has been a cultural melting pot since Phoenicians and Greeks fought over it in the 5th and 6th centuries BC. Sitting close to where Europe ends and Africa begins, Palermo bears the scars – and echoes the glories – of centuries of domination. On