FABIO ARTUSI Documentary Photographer

Ballarò Market, Albergheria district, Palermo. Sicily

The Albergheria, one of the five Norman districts, located beyond the Kemonia, assumed this name because the rebel inhabitants of Centorbi and Capizzi , Albergaria Centurbi et Capicii , were transferred there by Federico II. The pulsating heart of the Albergheria is today the Ballarò market, which is probably called by Bahlara, a village near Monreale, where the vegetables, vegetables and vendors came from. With a use of Arabic origin, the road is today literally invaded by wooden boxes: they contain the goods that are continually barked 'Abbanniata'; few understand the literal meaning, but everyone knows that those cries, chanted with oriental cadences, intend to advertise the good quality of the products