Step Into History
Walk Palermo in 1900
AI rebuilds Palermo street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
The Florios' Palermo, 1900
Palermo around 1900 is a city in mid-reinvention: Florio money, Ernesto Basile’s Liberty taste and the new Teatro Massimo frame an expansion beyond the medieval walls. The walk moves from the harbour across seafront promenades, through crowded open markets and narrow Baroque streets, and up to the villas and grand hotel where citrus and leisure meet the sea.
35 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Palermo as it stood in 1900 (“History of Palermo”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Gulf of Palermo
- 2. La Cala Molo
- ↳ Fish Auction Hall · interior
- 3. Castello a Mare
- ↳ Aragonese Great Hall · interior
- 4. Porta Felice
- 5. Piazza Marina
- ↳ Kiosk Café Pavilion · interior
- 6. Corso Vittorio Emanuele
- 7. Quattro Canti
- 8. Piazza Pretoria
- 9. Palermo Cathedral
- ↳ Cathedral Nave · interior
- 10. Palazzo dei Normanni
- ↳ Palatine Chapel · interior
- 11. Via Maqueda
- ↳ Santa Caterina Nave · interior
- 12. Mercato del Capo
- ↳ Capo Market Hall · interior
- 13. La Vucciria
- ↳ Butchers' Arcade · interior
- 14. Ballarò Market
- ↳ Ballarò Stall Arcade · interior
- 15. Borgo Vecchio
- 16. Teatro Massimo
- ↳ Grand Auditorium · interior
- 17. Piazza Verdi
- 18. Piazza Ruggero Settimo
- ↳ Politeama Foyer · interior
- 19. Villino Florio
- ↳ Florio Drawing Room · interior
- 20. Via della Libertà
- 21. Grand Hotel Villa Igiea
- ↳ Liberty Salon · interior
- 22. Monte Pellegrino Summit