Here's a short, silent home movie of Palermo in the thirties. It shows the Liberty gem Villa Deliella, (02:27 behind palms) destroyed in a night in the 1950s by the mafia to make way for a high rise, now the site of a car wash. Its absence breaks the hearts of Palermitans.
Here's the link, in case the the embedded video does not appear:
http://video.corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/palermo-capodanno-1934/52c8f276-b098-11e5-a532-6cb06317be62
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http://video.corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/palermo-capodanno-1934/52c8f276-b098-11e5-a532-6cb06317be62