Politeama theatre

It is the Greek city for its origins, for the brightness of its sky and for the styes of its museum, of beauty not inferior to those of Olympia. It is a Roman city for the memory of its struggles against Carthage and the mosaics of the Villa Bonanno. It is an Arab city for the small domes of some of its churches, heirs of the mosques. It is a French city for the Altavilla dynasty that embellished it. It is a German city for the Hohenstaufen tombs. It's a Spanish city for Carlo Quinto, English for Nelson and Lady Hamilton. (Roger Peyrefitte on Palermo, 1907 - 2000)