Coastal Boroughs of Palermo City

The port is located at the foot of Monte Pellegrino in Montepellegrino district and it is built on a small cove between high rock walls.
Originally, the port was exclusively used by the fishermen of the district. In the nineteenth century, Hotel Villa Igiea owners built there a private access that ensured an easy way for guests with boats.
Today the port is one of the most modern marinas in the city.

Born as a fishing village , it developed around the Tonnara Florio during the nineteenth century. Currently inside there is a marina, once only for fishermen.

The area was created and developed around the Tonnara Bordonaro and was built in the fourteenth century in the coast below the Monte Pellegrino.
You can still find the building of the Tonnara and a small port.
Currently, due to the presence of nightclubs, it has become an evening destination, It is also in progress the recovery of the coasts that will allow people to bath at the seaside.

Mondello is a fishing village , reclaimed only at the end of the 19th century, thus allowing the arrival of the upper middle class of Palermo and of the Italo-Belgian society which transformed it into a seaside lounge with belle époque air.
As part of the VII District , enclosed by < strong> Monte Pellegrino and Monte Gallo , detached from the city by the Parco della Favorita , can be reached via the many tree-lined royal avenues or via secondary connections.
The area is renowned for the beach, which represents one of the most coveted beaches in Sicily, for its numerous Liberty style villas, known as the best expression of Art Nouveau in Italy, and for the sites of historical interest.
It is home to the World Festival on the Beach .
The village of Mondello - about 12 km from the urban center of Palermo and separated from the rest of the city by the Parco della Favorita - lies on a semicircular bay whose ends are Monte Pellegrino in the south-eastern side and Monte Gallo in the north-western one.
The natural reserves of the two promontories offer exceptional landscape diversification, which represents one of the most important peculiarities of the place.
It can be reached via the tree-lined avenues of the Favorita or by crossing the promenade of the Addaura . Mondello enjoys a typically Mediterranean climate. Summers are hot and with little rain, but with low humidity levels.
Thanks to the continuous Mediterranean and Tyrrhenian breezes, the days are often windy: the only exception is the weeks in which the Scirocco blows, which brings the temperatures to decidedly high values, also raising the humidity level.
Most of the rainfall is concentrated in the first days of September, while in the rest of the autumn, sunny days and very pleasant temperatures continue to follow.
Winters are generally mild, but despite the Mediterranean influence, in the last few years during the winter months temperatures can reach around 5 ° for several weeks.
Very rarely the beach of Mondello (as well as the other Tyrrhenian municipalities of Sicily) can be whitewashed by a thin but suggestive layer of snow. The last snowfalls were those of 30 and 31 December 2014.
The springs are lukewarm (except in March and, at times, in early April when cold broadsides can still arrive from the Balkans) and normally as early as the second half of April and the beginning of May temperatures remain high.

Sferracavallo is located at the base of Capo Gallo promontory's on one side and Monte Billiemi on the other. It is located on the northern border of Palermo, near Mondello; the stretch of sea that bathes the fishing village, is part of the Capo Gallo e Isola delle Femmine Protected Marine Area .
The name Sferracavallo originates from the roughness of the road so as to make the "unleash horses" that pulled the boats used in the tuna traps to dry out and shelter in the adjacent warehouses.
This small village was inhabited since the prehistoric era by a tribe of hunters and root gatherers, who found shelter in the various caves in the surrounding area.
Nearby there were watchtowers, one built in the fifteenth century, and another in the sixteenth, which were part of the warning system of the coastal towers of Sicily.In Barcarello stood a tower-fort with the same purpose of guard against the Turkish pirates and privateers.
At the end of the 19th century it became the site of residential settlements and was therefore almost incorporated by the building expansion of the Palermo city .
There are two ports: the main one and the small port of Barcarello which mainly hosts tourist boats. The small port extends from the Capo Gallo reserve to the fishermen cemetery located east of the village.
Today Sferracavallo is one of the favorite destinations Palermo's citizens and tourists for the presence of numerous restaurants, but also to enjoy the splendid crystalline sea of the splendid beach of Barcarello.