A beautiful location for exploring the best Palermo has to offer: a quiet neighborhood near the sea for evening strolls, close to restaurants and museums, the famous open air markets of Palermo, safe for walking at night, free parking a 5 minute walk away plus 3 important gardens. Francesca's apartment is not the usual space full of Ikea furnishings , it has personality due to her magpie's eye for mixing and arranging a variety of objects and interesting furniture, The layout of terrace, kitchen, large and very comfortable main room and bedroom provides a nice air flow. The beautiful washing machine that offered a 30 minute cycle, a line plus drying rack, ironing board and good iron plus lovely wooden hangers were much appreciated by a traveler on the road for a month, The terrace is planted with interesting plants and quite private. Francesca provided excellent materials on Palermo museums and sights in several languages plus cards from restaurants and for private guide services. She advised us of the weekly Sunday flea market in a neighborhood, garden. We had a problem with the wi-fi connection but it was quickly resolved with a telephone call.