Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
ging name to Via Ruggero Settimo at Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, the gateway to the new city.
At Piazza Castelnuovo (also commonly known as Piazza Politeama), it continues into
Viale della Libertà , a grand boulevard lined with 19th-century apartment blocks.
Via Maqueda is bisected by Corso Vittorio Emanuele, running east to west from the
port of La Cala to the cathedral and Palazzo dei Normanni. The intersection of Via
Maqueda and Corso Vittorio Emanuele, known famously as the Quattro Canti (Four
Corners), divides historic Palermo into four traditional quarters: La Kalsa (southeast),
Vucciria (northeast), Il Capo (northwest) and Albergheria (southwest). These quarters
contain the majority of Palermo's sights.
Parallel to Via Maqueda is another major street, Via Roma. A one-way system moves
traffic north up Via Roma from the train station and south down Via Maqueda.
Information
EMERGENCY
Ambulance
(
091 666 55 28, 118)
091 666 11 11;
www.ospedalecivicopa.org
;
Via Carmelo Lazzaro)
Emergency facilities.
Ospedale Civico
(
Questura
(
091 21 01 11, 113; Piazza della Vittoria 8)
TOURIST INFORMATION
Central Tourist Office
( 091 58 51 72; informazionituristiche@provincia.palermo.it; Via Principe di Belmonte 42;
8.30am-2pm & 2.30-6pm Mon-Fri)
Palermo's provincial tourist office offers maps and bro-
chures as well as the helpful booklet
Un Ospite a Palermo
(
www.unospiteapalermo.it
)
,
published bimonthly and containing listings for museums, cultural centres, tour guides
and transport companies.
City Information Booth
(Piazza Bellini; 8.30am-1pm & 3-7pm Mon-Sat)
The most dependable of
Palermo's city-run information booths, next to the churches of San Cataldo and La Mar-
torana. Other booths around the city - at the port, the train station, Piazza Castelnuovo
and Piazza Marina - are only intermittently staffed and have unpredictable hours.
Falcone-Borsellino Airport Information Office
(
091 59 16 98; in downstairs hall;
8.30am-7.30pm Mon-Fri,
8.30am-2.30pm Sat)
