Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Via Bara all'Olivella is good for arts and crafts. Check out the puppet workshop of the
GOOGLE MAP
(Via Bara all'Olivella 48-50;
10am-1pm &
4-7pm Tue-Sat)
.
For ceramics and pottery (albeit at higher prices than you'd find in Sicily's hinterland)
stop by
Le Ceramiche di Caltagirone
MAP
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.leceramichedicaltagirone.it
; Via Cavour 114;
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.casamerlo.it
;
Corso
Vittorio Emanuele 231; 9am-1pm & 4-7.30pm Mon-Sat)
.
8.30am-11pm Mon-Sat, 8.30am-2pm & 6-11pm Sun)
, an enticing gourmet food emporium, or
Bottega dei
Sapori e dei Saperi della Legalità
MAP
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.liberapalermo.org
; Piazza Castelnuovo 13;
4-8pm
Mon, 9.30am-1.30pm & 4-8pm Tue-Sat)
, a store that sells products grown on lands confiscated
from the Mafia.
Information
EMERGENCY
Ambulance
(
091 666 55 28, 118)
Police
(Questura;
091 21 01 11, 113; Piazza della Vittoria 8)
MEDICAL SERVICES
091 666 11 11;
www.ospedalecivicopa.org
; Via Carmelo Lazzaro)
Emergency facilities.
Ospedale Civico
(
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 bi-monthly 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)
