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Reading about a city only gets you so far, and Palermo more than most needs to be seen and heard to be understood. These two are worth your time, hand-picked to show you the city the way it actually feels to live in, beyond the markets and the monuments. Each opens on YouTube in a new tab.

A walk through Palermo

Why this one: the best feel for daily life here, the markets of Ballarò and Vucciria, the faded palaces, the street food, and the raw energy of the real city.

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A 'living in Palermo' take

Why this one: a resident's straight talk on the good and the hard, the beauty and the chaos, the affordability and the bureaucracy, and what daily life in the Sicilian capital is really like.

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