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...Antica Focacceria San Francesco In business since 1834 and one of Palermo's most justifiably popular restaurants. Via A. Paternostro 58; 39-91-320-264; www.afsf.it...
After fueling up, visit the Palazzo Madama, a royal residence that houses the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica. The regional collection of tapestries, paintings and ceramics can be skipped for a quick - and free - viewing of renowned architect Filippo Juvarra's staircase, the Scala delle Forbici, on the western side of the building. Across the Piazza Castello is the Palazzo Reale, which was damaged by fire in 1997. But much of the restoration is complete and can be enjoyed from outside in the open gardens or inside in the majestic corridors...
...traditional cooking under challenge is usually described as la vera, antica cucina italiana, the true, ancient Italian cuisine. It consists of some 20 distinctive regional cooking styles that, for all their diversity, share a profusion of superb vegetables, game, fish and meat (Italians are the world's leading consumers of veal). Instead of aiming for symphonic blends of flavors, Italian cooking pays primary attention to natural tastes and textures and fresh ingredients. Pasta and in some regions rice dishes are an essential part of the vera cucina. Its dishes are characterized by locally produced sausages, hams, cheese, breads...
...hair, or leaves, or even wind. This apprehension of energy acted upon his drawings almost irrespective of their mood. It is present, for instance, in the exquisite black chalk study of the "pointing lady" standing by a stream, with her veil-like gathering and wreathing of drapery all' antica: a Leonardesque muse if ever there was one, pointing with a mysterious smile of affirmation toward something we cannot see. But its tragic form is in his visions of universal disaster...
...antiquities, estimates cost of the immediate restoration of the Colosseum at $430,000 and, of the crumbling walls and underpinning of the Forum, another $4,000,000. But Rome has the highest municipal debt in Italy, around $3 billion: it is in effect bankrupt. And the deterioration of antica Roma is only one in a series of revelations of decay in Italy's most famous monuments that have popped up, like Banquo's ghost, to alarm conservationists this summer...