Francesca's apartment is beautiful, with many perfect small touches. It's up a couple of flights of stairs and has a lovely balcony. The kitchen is well equipped, and our helpful hosts supplied coffee and treats for our entire stay. Excellent high-speed internet, using a hotspot, was available at all times.
There is a large supermarket about five minutes walk from the apartment and good-to-excellent restaurants within a 10-minute walking radius. One reasonable restaurant-bar is across the square, if you don't want to walk far. The central train/bus station is about a 25 minute walk, but a couple, of main streets are just a few minutes' walk. We enjoyed our stay very much, despite rain. If you are visiting Palermo, try to reserve this apartment, it's in high demand and for good reason.
We drove to Palermo, but left the car in a guarded car park till we left, as we wished to avoid the ZLT zones to avoid automatic fines for enterint the unmarked central city.