FABIO ARTUSI Documentary Photographer

Capo district, Palermo

The ”Capo”, fraction of a quarter the much largest one, is one of the four historical districts of Palermo and centre of one of the three markets historical ache essay of the city, therefore full of life, history and traditions that characterize all the historical centre. People, the ways, the market, the religiosity, la amanitas; she seems that all it is remained firm in the time. The life is carried out slowly, made of rituals, habits and behaviours eradicate in the time probably inherit to you from the Arabic domination that has left of the chair signs. Moreover the Arabs have transmitted sure also la habitudinal to living all apertures in the narrow lanes of the quarter and to carry out every type of activity helps you from the mild climate obviously that characterizes the Sicily. Therefore I could say to feel itself to Tunis or in the medina of Fez instead they are to Palermo city of Italy and of Europe. The religious faith is here to the base of every behaviour, it knows to you and the Madonna of every chisel they are venerate you and ingrain you with the traditional procession long the alleys of the quarter. For the Saint Friday then it comes scene the dead women of Christ with a lot of soldiers roman and Madonna in tender age. The Head moreover has been place of takeover of the Blessed souls Pauls with the characteristics catacombs still today existing. In spite of the poverty and the unemployment that grip this quarter, people strain themselves of living with dignity and honour and in this the faith plays an important role because it helps to give hope and to watch the future with more confidence. However the rebirth of the quarter is already in action, with the restoration of the historical palaces, the street net and the public squares. This is carrying to a return deli habitants of the quarter and to one new people to the centre of Palermo above all want of living the night with rising of new premises for the young people in particular of the coffee-concert approaching again therefore original nucleus of the city.