Whereas we usually encounter doors that open by themselves, steel carts, neon lights that emphasise colours, products that are wrapped up and given price tags in a supermarket. In the markets of Palermo, access is from the street, there are no carts and the merchandise can be freely sniffed in straw baskets or wooden crates. It can be seen in natural light as it releases all its delightful fragrances. The sun caresses Sicily for twelve months out of the year and the climate of Palermo, always mild, have given the hot peppers and tomatoes their fiery red colour. The lemons are bright yellow.
Bright green are the courgettes and the fish silver-blue.
All of these colours, along with so many others, are present in these streets. Here there is no background music. The music comes from the vendors who clamour in a dialect incomprehensible to the foreigner as they invite customers to buy the produce. Or else they sing songs and, from time to time, shout comments from one stand to another. You will also become involved.