To get the full impact of the city’s culture, you must have a night at the opera in Palermo’s Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele. It’s the largest opera house in Italy, designed like an Ancient Greek temple, and where the final scene of The Godfather III was filmed.
A shrine to the glitz of Palermo, its mass of glittering chandeliers, gilt and sumptuous velvet create an auditorium that oozes grandeur – add in the blinged-up locals and ladies waving fans as if in the 19th century, and you can just imagine what Palermo was like at the height of its glory.
