We Are Palermo

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Eat, drink & walk Palermo like you were born here.

In 3 days. Without getting robbed, lost, or fed garbage pasta.

  • 🍝Eat where WE eat. Not where the guy in the bow tie wants you to.
  • 🚶My routes, day by day. You just walk. The city does the rest.
  • 🚕Every scam, every fine, every rip-off. Dodged before it costs you a cent.
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Hey, I'm Nico. Let me finish this second cannolo and I'm all yours. ↓

Here's the problem

Nobody reviewing Palermo is actually Sicilian.

Five stars on TripAdvisor? Left by Paul from Manchester. Sicilians don't write reviews. We barely have the strength to stay alive.

The "traditional Sicilian breakfast with ice cream"? That's Emma from New York, doing pirouettes in front of a fountain, giving you tips about a place she saw for fifteen minutes.

Forty years here. I have never once seen a Palermitano open the freezer at 8am and shovel gelato into his face. Not once.

So now it's your turn. Your options:

  • 💃Trust Emma. Ice cream for breakfast it is. Amen.
  • 🔍Google till your eyes bleed. There goes half your trip.
  • 🙏Pray to Santa Rosalia. My nonna swears she answers.

And if our patron saint leaves you on read? May the good Lord send you luck, as my nonna would say.

Or... take the shortcut.

There's a version of this trip where you skip Emma, skip Paul, and just carry a real Sicilian in your pocket.

Meet it

We Are Palermo Premium

The guide written by Palermitani, not by Google.

  • 🗣️Built on word of mouth: what we hear, eat, and live. Not "best restaurant in Palermo."
  • 👆Made for your thumb, on the street. The answer in two taps, not 3,000 scrolls.
  • ✂️Zero fluff. No "hidden gems," no pretty façades. Just what you need to go do it.
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Everything inside

15 sections. The whole city.

Complete, but never in your way. Tap what you need, ignore the rest.

🧭

4 days, mapped minute by minute

Follow the route. See the real city. Zero regrets.

100€+a private guide, per hour

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65+ places where WE eat & drink

Trattorie, street food, bars, aperitivo. Never a tourist trap.

~70€one bad tourist dinner

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What's worth doing (and what's a trap)

The real experiences. Not the horse carriage built to rob you.

80€booking the wrong tour

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Getting around + driving zone + parking

Drive in without the fine. Find your way without the meltdown.

160€one fine for the zone you didn't know about

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Day trips + beaches

Cefalù, Monreale, the free beaches, and how to get there.

35€a sad umbrella at a packed beach

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Wine, where to stay, safety, cheat sheet

The cantine nobody tells you about. The neighborhoods that make or break your trip. The taxi trick.

25€a travel book already out of date

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What's on this week, live, in English

Updated constantly. What's actually happening in the city while you're here. No other guide does this.

Priceless, honestly.

Over 500€ of not-getting-screwed. Yours for $47.

One payment. Yours forever.

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Oh, and... how rude of me. I just dumped all that on you and I didn't even introduce myself.

Ciao. I'm Nico.

Born here. Raised here. Still here. I'm not a tour company. I'm not an influencer counting his followers in the mirror.

I'm just a Sicilian who got tired of watching nice people get robbed in his own city.

It started with my Airbnb guests. Same questions every single week: where do we eat, how do we not get scammed, is that thing on the grill going to kill me. So one day I sat down and wrote it all out for them.

That little list somehow became the most-read English guide to Palermo on the entire internet. Go figure.

You're not buying a guide from a company. You're buying it from me. Nico. And if you email me, it's me who answers.

And then?

Three taps and you're in.

You pay. Card, through Stripe. One minute. I never see your details.
You're in. Straight away. No app to park on your phone growing mold. No fuss.
You open it. In bed the night before, on a corner the day of. Palermo's in your pocket.
🎁

And you're not leaving without this.

The Sicilian Menu. 81 Palermo dishes. Photos. Decoded.

Walk up to any menu, any market cart, and know exactly what you're looking at. Arancina or arancino (careful, that's a war). What the hell is a stigghiola.

I sell this on its own for $17. Today it's in the box. Free. Consider it a welcome gift.

Don't take my word for it

A few nice words.

Straight off Trustpilot. No money changed hands, no threats were made. That I recall.

JS
Judy Strano
United States · 3 reviews
★★★★★
Saved us time and effort
We used this guide every step of the way and had a wonderful time in Palermo as a result. The helpful hints were especially appreciated. It is well done and easy to use. Palermo is a busy city and it was good to have a plan to follow. We did it all!
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Antonio
Italy · 5 reviews
★★★★★
Best Palermo tips ever!
I randomly found the We Are Palermo guide while planning my trip, and seriously, it was a lifesaver. Nico's tips are like getting advice from a local buddy who actually knows his stuff. No boring touristy stuff, just real, super helpful info. I knew exactly where to go, what to skip, and the way he writes is so chill and funny. Worth every penny.
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Sheila Eiris Moreira
Spain · 4 reviews
★★★★★
Super helpful guide!
I got the premium guide from WeArePalermo.com, and it was so good! All the restaurant choices were amazing: full of locals, no tourist traps. The itineraries were great too. I just followed the guide and saw everything I wanted. It made my trip super easy. Totally worth it!
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Pesce
United Kingdom · 5 reviews
★★★★★
Great guide
I used the premium guide for the itineraries. So good! Probably would've seen half the stuff without it. The restaurant selection is awesome too. Everything's divided by category and super easy to check out. Made my trip to Palermo way better!
2,833 travelers in. Not one "Sicilian breakfast with ice cream" among them.
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And if the guide sucks?

You pay nothing.

Buy it. Open it. Use it on your trip.

If it doesn't save you more than 47 dollars and one embarrassing mistake, email me. I refund you. Every cent.

I'm one guy. With a name and a face. I'm not going to fight you over 47 bucks. So: the guide saves you money, or it costs you nothing.

Here's the whole deal

Everything you get today.

We Are Palermo Premium

One Sicilian. Fifteen sections. Zero tourist traps.

  • The full guide · 15 sections, 65+ eat & drink spots, 4-day routes500€+
  • ZTL & parking survival · never donate to the Comune again160€
  • "What's On This Week" · live, in English, forever∞
  • 🎁 BONUS: The Sicilian Menu · 81 dishes, decoded$17 FREE
  • Free updates for life · it only gets betterFREE
Total real value500€+
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$47
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Less than one bad tourist dinner. Less than the taxi from the airport.

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Alright. Your call.

You're spending thousands to come to Sicily. Flights. Hotel. Time you don't get back.

Wing it: eat mediocre, get lost, get fined, fly home with a camera roll and a shrug. Or spend 47 dollars, put an actual Sicilian in your pocket, and see my city the way it's meant to be seen.

I know which one I'd pick. But then again, I'm not the one who needs it.

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The questions you're too polite to ask

Go ahead. Ask.

"So I put in my card and you empty my bank account?"
Wow. Thanks for assuming I'm a con man. No. Google "Stripe." It's the most secure payment system on the planet, the one the serious people use (Amazon, Spotify, all of them). That's what runs this. I never even see your card.
"Is it an app I have to download?"
Look at your phone. Look at that beautiful mess of apps you never open. You want one more? No. It's a web guide. Works exactly like an app, you tap the link and there it is, but it doesn't clutter up your phone.
"Can I put it on more than one device?"
If by that you mean "can I pay once and hand it to my wife and my brother-in-law"... yes. I'm not going to come knocking for extra money because your whole famiglia wants in.
"Does it work offline?"
No. And listen, if you're flying to Palermo without a data plan, you're already making a terrible mistake. On the plane? Order a gin and talk to the poor guy next to you who just wants to sleep.
"Do I have to pay again for updates?"
Madonna, that's a great little money-making idea you just handed me. But no. I'd be a bastard. Buy it once, updates are yours forever.
"Honestly... do I even need this? Isn't it all online for free?"
Sure. Same way seeing a city with a real local is exactly the same as following "Travel with Meg" telling you her top 10 restaurants while doing pirouettes on Instagram. Exactly the same. Go with God.
🍝 1,247 tourists ate garbage pasta today yeah, I pay a guy to count them