Il Telegraph (nella sezione luxury) parla nuovamente di Palermo (link), al di fuori degli eventi di alta moda, con un particolare focus sulla sua storia e con una rassegna su alcuni suoi edifici nobiliari.
Ovviamente Palermo fa -comunque e nuovamente- una gran bella figura ..
'(...) Palaces, of course, are not most people’s idea of Palermo. Many associate the city with grime and crime, a charming ruffian with a tendency to bag-snatching. The Mafia, of course, casts a shadow over Palermo, though it is not a shadow you will encounter as a visitor, unless you are planning to offload a couple of tonnes of cocaine. And as crime bosses frown on street crime, people say you are more likely to have your bag snatched in Florence than in Palermo. (...)'
Ma soprattutto, a proposito dei Palazzi Nobiliari: 'But many are intact, still irresistibly grand, wildly baroque, outrageously extravagant, and home to families that make the Windsors seem like rogue upstarts'... Nient'altro che la verità...
