At speed, the white blob in the middle is the building from which the bomb that killed Judge Giovanni Falcone was triggered in 1992
Church of San Cataldo
Ditto
Interior
Detail of curtain by door
Interior of Church of La Martorana
Looking from La Martorana to San Cataldo
What’s behind the yellow door?
Ditto
A message that also adorns the white building from which the Falcone assassination was initiated
Palermo panorama
Byzantine crab, my birth sign, on mosaic floor of the Cathedral
Interior of Palatine Chapel
View from our lunch table in Palermo
Luggage seen during visit to Palazzo Conte Federico
A family that loves its racing cars so much they come home with them to dribble oil on the floors
I saw the little white building from many miles away – amazing how news images can lodge in the brain. Hugely admire all those of who have fought the Mafia over the decades, including Judge Giovanni Falcone, whose assassination was triggered from that inconspicuous blob in the landscape. That same fated year of 1992 also saw the assassination of his colleague and friend Paolo Borsellino.
Palermo, where we stayed at the Hotel Excelsior, was incredibly noisy. But chapels, churches and cathedrals really were miraculous – particularly the Church of San Cataldo, with its three faded pink domes. Felt something particularly powerful there.
