Palermo
Palermo
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| Comune di Palermo | |
 Flag .svg) Coat of arms | |
.svg) The municipality of Palermo within the Metropolitan City of Palermo | |
Location of Palermo  | |
  Palermo Location of Palermo in Sicily  Palermo Palermo (Sicily) | |
| Coordinates: 38°06′40″N 13°21′06″E / 38.11111°N 13.35167°E | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Sicily |
| Metropolitan city | Palermo (PA) |
| Founded | 736 BC |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Roberto Lagalla (UDC) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 160.59 km2 (62.00 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 14 m (46 ft) |
| Population (2025)[2] | |
| • Total | 625,956 |
| • Density | 3,900/km2 (10,000/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Palermitano Panormito Palermitan (English) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 90100 |
| Dialing code | 091 |
| ISTAT code | 082053 |
| Patron saint | Saint Rosalia, Saint Agata, Saint Oliva and Saint Benedict the Moor |
| Saint day | 15 July |
| Website | Official website |
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Palermo is an 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 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.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ↑ "Monthly Demographic Balance". ISTAT.