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Theresa Maggio

Sicily

The wall of kindness

February 7, 2016
Tags: Palermo, urban, wall of kindness, muro della gentilezza, sicily, poor, immigrants, mosque, Via Celso, sicilia, kindness, heart, center, giving, generous, thoughtful
The wall of Kindness in Via Celso in the city center
Following a European trend, someone in the heart of Palermo has started a "Wall of Kindness". One clothesline where people can leave what they want to donate, or take what they need, not far from the city's principal mosque. Here is a one-minute video report from La Repubblica.
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Quattro canti 1865

February 28, 2015
Tags: quattro canti, Palermo, Four Corners, 1865, clean, center, city
The photographer was standing on CORSO Vittorio Emanuele and shooting south, uphill, toward the Porta Nuova. The cathedral and the Norman Palace are at the upper end of this street.
The Quattro Canti, officially Piazza Vigliena, the four-way intersection at the center of the historic city, in an 1865 photo by Robert Rive. Clean, no traffic, no trash on the ground. No products came prepackaged so there was no packaging to discard. The piazza was named for the Spanish Viceroy Villena who commissioned the showpiece.  Read More 
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