The Concordia Hotel rises along the very important street named "Via Roma", in the very heart of the ancient Palermo, close to the most important monuments like the Cathedral, the Teatro Massimo and the colourful Mercato della Vucciria.

The Hotel is just five hundreds meters apart from the Stazione Centrale di Palermo, thus the Concordia Hotel is the ideal starting point to go and see the most enchanting places in the town of Palermo.

Palermo is the Chief Town of the Sicilian region. The name comes from the Greek term "Panormus" whose meaning is "full harbour".

The origins are Phoenician-Punic but the town had its best time under the Greeks and the Arabs. The Arabs changed it in one of the most important emporium of Mediterranean.

Around 1200 the city was the residence of the emperor Frederick II of Swabia who changed it into the first cultural centre of the island. On October, 21 1860, thanks to Garibaldi, the city was annexed to the Reign of Italy.

The Concordia Hotel building is a fine palace dating back to 1800. It was fully restructured in 2002 to to offer to its guests a very high stay quality level, while maintaining unchanged the architectural structure of the building.

The Concordia Hotel is also the ideal starting point to go and visit the most interesting surroundings of the town of Palermo, like Monreale and its famous mosaics, the Villa Palagonia in the town of Bagheria, the wonderful sand beach of Mondello, the Isola delle Femmine and much more interesting places both travelling by car or travelling by using the numerous and comfortable public transports.

We shortly outline here the town of Monreale with its Cathedral worldwide famous for its splendid internal mosaics. Among them there is the figure of the Cristo Pantocrator (Christ Almighty) that stands out for its magnificence in the nave.

The wonderful Cathedral represents a valuable mixture of Islamic, Byzantine and Romanesque architecture.

Very interesting is also the Villa Palagonia in the town of Bagheria, also known by the name of Villa dei Mostri (the monsters villa) because of so many grotesque sculptures at completion of boundery wall which precedes the main front in shape of mythological characters, ladies, knights, musicians, soldiers, dragons, deformed beasts and threatening expression which create a very suggestive atmosphere, or the wonderful sand beach of Mondello, the Isola delle Femmine and much more interesting places.