apartment: piazza indipendenza n.10, Palermo, Italy.
This is a wonderful apartment, which we enjoyed very much. Fabrizio was a gracious and helpful host, taking the time to explain the features of the property and the surrounding neighborhood, including tipping us off about the local services and the local buses which are stopping close to the apartment.
As Fabrizio told us, we found everything we needed a short distance along via Pisano. Included were food, wine, pizza, a grocery market, pharmaceuticals (farmacia across the street), and other foods (including pastries) in the small shops. Along the stores of the side road (via Pisano), the shopowners I met in these stores were all so nice. you are right to tell your visitors that all they really need is there and just a short distance within 500 meters, even though at a first glance it might not look like that to those of us from far away.
He recommended FREE historic center bus which travels around and through all the sites you’d want to visit in the old city of Palermo. We went around several times to get a feel for Palermo, and even use it to get to the Central Train & Bus station for day trips to Corleone, Cefalo and the West Coast. it really was wiser to use the buses and trains, and not rent a car. Of course, every day from the penthouse balcony we could watch the craziness below us - cars, buses, horse-drawn carriages, cycles, bicycles trying to rush along the very busy streets. Watching this traffic made New York City look like "child's play". Watching this the first day cured me of any thought of renting a car. And the public buses made it easy to get around, as you told us.
My wife and I gave all categories a top (5-star) rating.
regards, John and Marie of Palm Coast, Florida USA