Get ready to spend Christmas 2019 with AutonoleggioPrime for car rental in Palermo, the capital of Sicily, with almost 700 thousand inhabitants. Palermo today is a city that is projecting itself towards a new Mediterranean identity, focusing on the tertiary sector and tourism. To move around the Sicilian capital and its surroundings with ease, you can rent a car in one of our city agencies, such as the one inside the "Falcone-Borsellino" airport.
Our staff will welcome you with kindness and care, offering you the best cars to move from the airport and in the city.
Renting a car in Palermo is a necessity for all those tourists and professionals who need to move quickly and calmly within the city, without having to struggle and accumulate delays waiting for inefficient public transport.
The city airport is quite far from Palermo, which is why renting a car becomes the best choice in these cases. Autonoleggio Prime will make the service fast, simple and without any complications.
Convenience of the service
Autonoleggio Prime will allow you to rent a car in a convenient and instant way because to use our services, the use of a credit card is not foreseen. In fact, our agency will allow you to rent a car without a credit card and without requiring security deposits Visit our website, choose your car, enter your details and pay directly online!
Online payment greatly speeds up the booking procedure, making the interaction between the customer and the service immediate, and also allows you to book easily and in a few minutes. You can also request a free quote by filling out a simple request form directly on our website.
Collection at Palermo Airport
Palermo Falcone Borsellino Airport is located 35 km west of the city, in Cinisi. It is the third airport in Southern Italy in terms of number of passengers passing through it every year. Offering numerous connections with most Italian and European cities, this airport is one of the preferred routes for tourists who decide to visit Palermo and all of western Sicily and is perfect as a collection point as it is particularly convenient for your stay.
Thanks to our car rental service at Palermo Falcone Borsellino Airport, it will be easy, fast and convenient to get a car once you land in Palermo and return it before leaving. The service is carefully managed by our staff, who, once arrived, will immediately deliver your car to you.
Getting around Palermo and its surroundings by car
If you need to reach Palermo from the airport (about 35 kilometers separate them) you can take the A29 motorway, which is toll-free and goes all the way to Catania. But the Sicilian capital is also connected to other motorways that lead to different areas of the island: the A20, this one with a toll, which connects Palermo (or rather, the municipality of Buonfornello about forty kilometers away) with Messina. And the A19 motorway, which connects Palermo to Catania passing through the hinterland and sparsely populated areas. The fast road that crosses the city center of Palermo is the "viale della regione siciliana", also known as the Palermo ring road: about 12 kilometers long and with two lanes in each direction, it connects the center with the A19 and A29.
History and culture of Palermo
As we all know, Palermo is a city rich in history, it has a soul that has been left to it as a legacy by the numerous dominations that it has undergone over the course of its thousand-year history; a soul that, despite having absorbed the various influences, has remained peculiarly and recognizably Palermitan.
The city was founded by the Phoenicians - with the name of Ziz (flower) - as a port for trade between the 7th and 6th centuries BC; they were followed by the Carthaginians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines for more than a millennium, with the Emirate of Sicily. Palermo is in fact one of the few cities in the world where we can find a great ability to preserve its own strong identity over the years together with the artistic and architectural testimonies of the rulers who followed one another over the centuries, including Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Spanish and Austrians. For this reason, visiting Palermo means meeting dozens of civilizations and different eras under the same sky.
Places to visit
Palermo is full of incredible places to visit. If you only have one day available (perhaps because you are traveling for work), there are still of places you can't miss. Some examples are: the Palatine Chapel in the Norman Palace, with mosaics from the East and a mix of Latin and Arabic details; Porta Nuova, along the Cassaro (Via Vittorio Emanuele), the oldest street in the city, built in the 16th century in honor of the visit of Emperor Charles V; the Cathedral, born as a mosque in Arab-Norman style, which welcomed Henry II and Frederick II in the area of the royal tombs. Also worth a visit are Piazza Pretoria, the churches of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria and San Giuseppe dei Teatini, and the church of Martorana. The visit can continue towards Piazza Marina with a walk on the sea of Foro Italico; or towards via Maqueda and the Art Nouveau buildings of Palermo.
THE PALERMO COAST
If it's summer and you prefer a dip in the crystalline sea of Sicily, the Palermo coast is more or less 200 kilometers long. To the northwest of the city the coastline is mostly low and sandy; to the northeast it tends to be more rugged and rocky. Just get into your rental car, then, to reach some of the most beautiful places on the island a few kilometers from Palermo: Balestrate, Carini, but also Lascari and Cefalù.
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