The holiday apartment “Casa Markiz II” is located in the middle-class Liberta district in a tree-lined street on the 2nd floor of a historic palazzo, a lift is available. From here it is not far to one of Palermo’s green lungs, the “Villa Trabia” park, and to the old town with its many sights.

You enter the flat via a hallway, from where you enter the fully equipped kitchen and the shower room. This is followed by a living room with sofa bed, smart TV and dining table; the frescoed ceiling and antique floor are particularly noteworthy. A small corridor leads from there to the bedroom with double bed. There is a small balcony in front of both the living room and the bedroom.

The flat is equipped with air conditioning for cooling and heating.

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.