Her friendly husband came to greet us and explained how the place worked so we did not have to go through a tiring learning curve and in a few seconds we had air conditioning to ward off the city heat. Federica left pasta, butter, chocolate, youghurt, a cold bottle of water and some other fantastic and necessary staples. I've given her five stars for everything including location. At first my wife and I did not like the area given that we had just come from Tropea- a sleepy sea side town, so the intensity of Palermo was shocking to us. Multiple,tall residential complexes of 5-6 stories high are not our thing but in the context of Palermo and the slums in it, Federica's home was a welcomed haven from some harsh realities.