Sicily
New Year's Day, Palermo 1934
January 2, 2016
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.
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Palermo before the war slideshow
December 20, 2015
A new slideshow of old Palermo found on the Facebook group Palermo in Bianco e Nero by Ganfry Fiero.