Shopping in Palermo

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A ceramic plate and a box of pastries make different demands on a journey home. This Palermo selection separates objects worth inspecting in person from sweets better chosen close to the time you will eat them. Use it to choose a few purposeful stops, not to fill a day with purchases you then have to carry.

Ceramiche De Simone offers decorative plates and vases alongside tablewareS1. Its official stockist list includes La Rinascente Palermo at Via Roma 289S2. This gives you a city retail address to ask about; it is not a promise that every piece in the online catalogue is displayed there.

I Segreti del Chiostro is inside the former Dominican monastery of Santa Caterina. The shop describes its work as recovering Sicilian convent pastry traditions, following recipes passed down from Palermo's enclosed religious communitiesS3. That is the reason to visit this particular pastry shop, rather than treating its setting as decoration.

Pasticceria Cappello lists two Palermo addresses: Via Colonna Rotta 68 and Via Nicolò Garzilli 19. Its account of the business describes Giovanni continuing his father Salvatore's pastry traditionS4. Choose the address that fits your day and contact that branch if there is a particular dessert you want.

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