‘Casa Caleca’ is a bright, stylish holiday apartment found on the sixth floor of a 1960s building in Palermo’s elegant Libertà district. With design touches perfectly chosen to accentuate the sixties aesthetic, it will make a comfortable and classy backdrop to any city break in Sicily’s capital.

The entrance is along a wide hallway, which leads to the bedrooms and living room. This last is furnished with a sofa, smart TV and a dining table big enough to seat four. This opens onto a roomy balcony which overlooks a quiet street just off the main thoroughfare of Via Libertà.

Each of the bedrooms contains a double bed, a desk and plenty of storage space. The kitchen is fully equipped for a self-catered stay of any duration, and also connects to the balcony and a utility room. The bathroom is spacious and modern, with a large walk-in shower.

All of the rooms are air-conditioned and can be independently heated to guarantee you a pleasant stay at any time of the year.

Via Libertà is a wide central boulevard, home to Palermo’s most upmarket boutiques, including internationally recognised fashion houses like Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci, as well as numerous smaller (and more affordable!) boutiques. The leafy district is home to some of the city’s nicest parks, including the famous Giardini Inglese. The Massimo and Politeama theatres are within walking distance, and the Centrale station is a short journey by public transport or taxi.

Palermo – The most exciting city in Italy

“Palermo is noisy and chaotic!” they say. Is that a fact? Maybe it is right next to the motorway, but who wants to take a holiday there!? Certainly not our guests, who can choose from a range of luxury and well soundproofed apartments in the very centre of town.

Amongst European cities of its size, nowhere is a trendier pick for a city break or culture-filled getaway than Palermo. As the city sheds the old cliches of the twentieth century, travellers are thronging to the four historic neighbourhoods that make up its old town, its leafy boulevards and buzzing piazzas, and the newly-pedestrianised thoroughfares that are its main arteries.

The old town district of La Loggia even has its own marina, known as La Cala:

We can’t believe any city in Italy has changed more than Palermo over the past 20 years, so if you’re still picturing the old cliches of crime and chaos, you’ve got to come and see for yourself what everyone’s talking about.

Palermo is the perfect base for a winter holiday in Sicily. The summer tourists thin out noticeably by mid-October, but the weather is still glorious right up to Christmas. Even in January, the sun shines here for an average of four hours a day. Beat the crowds and discover the real Palermo with a winter getaway in the Mediterranean.