ITALIA TOUR

THE VUCCIRIA IN PALERMO

If you go to Palermo you can not help but visit and immerse yourself in the smells, colors and voices Vucciria, the market town of Palermo.

Vucciria is word like "bucceria", taken from the French boucherie, which means butcher. The market centuries ago was scheduled for slaughter and sale of meat. Today it sells the fish, fruits, vegetables and even meat.

Sicilian word "Vuccirìa" means "confusion." The confusion of voices that overlap and cries of sellers that "abbanniano".

The proximity to the port city stimulated the settlement of merchants and traders Genoa, Pisa, Venezia, etc. since the twelfth century. The presence of numerous artisans is still readable by the names of some streets.

The gold of the lemons, the silver of fresh sardines and salted, the bronze of the olives and the Coral-dried tomatoes are mixed with the green of the broccoli and red watermelons.

And then the glint of fish, resting on a bed of crushed ice: shrimp, sea bream, scorpion fish, tuna, swordfish, octopus, cuttlefish and squid.

The visitor can not to taste the food cooked on the way: boiled octopus with dash of lemon, the sandwich with "fritter", croquettes or the spleen, the stigghola.

The Vucciria Palermo's is a famous painting by Renato Guttuso 1974 exhibited at Palazzo Steri.