What is Palermo?
[[File:Palermo-Panorama-bjs-3.jpg|thumb]] [[File:Flag of Palermo.svg|thumb|Flag]] [[File:Palermo-Stemma.svg|thumb|150px|Coat of arms]] {{commons|Palermo}} '''Palermo''' is an [[Italy|Italian]] city. It is the capital and largest city of [[Sicily]]. It has 720,000 people, with more than 1,000,000 in the metropolitan area. It has a hot-summer [[Mediterranean climate]]. The city started as a colony of [[Phoenicia]]. It was later [[Roman]] -for a century Islamic- and [[Normandy|Norman]] and part of the [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]]. After [[Italian unification]] Palermo grew rapidly. The city was bombed heavily in 1942 and 1943. {{Metropolitan City of Palermo}} [[Category:Palermo| ]]