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Museo Internazionale
delle Marionette
( 091 32 80 60; www.museomarionettepalermo.it ; Piazzetta Antonio Pasqualino 5; adult/reduced €5/3;
9am-1pm & 2.30-6.30pm Mon-Sat year-round, plus 10am-1pm Sun Sep-May) This whimsical mu-
seum houses over 3500 marionettes, puppets, glove puppets and shadow figures from
Palermo, Catania and Naples, as well as from further-flung places such as Japan, southeast
Asia, Africa, China and India. From October to May, weekly puppet shows (adult/child
€6/4) are staged on the museum's top floor in a beautifully decorated traditional theatre
complete with a hand-cranked music machine.
MUSEUM
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1 New City
North of Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, Palermo elegantly slips into cosmopolitan mode. Here
you'll find fabulous neoclassical and art nouveau buildings hailing from the last golden
age of Sicilian architecture, along with late-19th-century mansion blocks lining the broad
boulevard of Viale della Libertà.
Teatro Massimo
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OPERA HOUSE
( tour reservations 091 605 32 67; www.teatromassimo.it/servizi/visite.php ; Piazza Giuseppe Verdi;
guided tours adult/reduced €8/5; 9.30am-4.30pm Tue-Sun) Palermo's grand neoclassical opera
house took over 20 years to complete and has become one of the city's iconic landmarks.
The closing scene of The Godfather: Part III , with its visually stunning juxtaposition of
high culture, crime, drama and death, was filmed here. Guided 25-minute tours are offered
in English, Spanish, French and Italian daily except Monday.
Hammam
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BATHHOUSE
( 091 32 07 83; www.hammam.pa.it ; Via Torrearsa 17d; admission €40; women only 2-9pm Mon &
Wed, 11am-9pm Fri, couples only 2-8pm Thu, men only 2-8pm Tue, 10am-8pm Sat) For a sybaritic ex-
perience, head to this luxurious marble-lined Moorish bathhouse, where you can indulge
in a vigorous scrub-down, a steamy sauna and many different types of massages and ther-
apies. There's a one-off charge (€10) for slippers and a hand glove.
 
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