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Palermo district
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Palermo
is the principal city and administrative seat of the autonomous
region of Sicily. The municipality has 687.855 inhabitants and
an area of 15.888 hectares for a density population of 4.329
inhabitants per square km.
Situated on the edge of the Conca d'Oro (Golden Conch Shell), it
rises on a flat area, 31 m above sea-level. Built on an inlet of
the Mediterranean, is partly surrounded, to the south, by a
semicircle of mountains and hills, of which the highest are
Catalfano to the east, and Monte Pellegrino to the west.
It's worth
making Palermo your first stop in Sicily as the city is
important for being the island's main transport centre, boasting
Sicily's greatest concentration of sights (it is 139 km. distant
from Agrigento, 142 km. from Caltanissetta, 249 km. from
Catania, 161 from Enna, 259 km. from Messina, 283 km. from
Ragusa, 307 km. from Siracusa and 99 km. from Trapani).
Palermo is
indeed a beautiful and fertile plain, Sicily's largest city and
chief seaport. Manufactures include textiles, food products,
chemicals, printed materials, and cement.
The city is rich in works of art as Byzantine, Arab, and Norman
influence are combined in many buildings.
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