Concetta's apartment is very centrally located in Palermo, a couple of minutes' walk from the cathedral. The main kitchen/dining/living room is spacious and well-equipped and also attractively decorated in a contemporary style. There are two comfortably sized double bedrooms, one at the front and one at the rear on a mezzanine level, as well as a smaller bedroom at the back with a bunk bed; all told, perfect for our family of five.
Everything was very clean and tidy. The water pressure in the shower was not great, but that seems to be standard in the Palermo region. Concetta very kindly left us a couple of bottles of water, some orange juice and some local speciality biscuits - all very gratefully received after a long and delayed flight from London.
The apartment is directly above a restaurant, and there is a bakery on the corner of the block. We can highly recommend the bread from the bakery and the pizzas from the restaurant, which are skilfully baked in a wood-fired oven.
We did not get any noise from either the bakery or the restaurant. The room at the front does get a bit of traffic noise, which is only to be expected from such a central location, but the rooms at the back are perfectly quiet.