Fabulous location, a short walk from all Palermo's best sights. Don't be put off by its surroundings' grit. Staff is absolutely sweet, and the breakfast a daily feast of fresh fruit and a wonderful array of beautiful cakes baked each day on site. Excellent espresso, cappuccino, fruit smoothies and fresh-squeezed oj. The breakfast room is spacious and lovely. Our room was spacious, spotlessly clean and comfy, with balcony for watching street-life 'theatre' in the vicolo below. Note: the surrounding streets do get noisy in late afternoon-early evening with kids playing and mamas yelling. Inside the B&B, though, is an oasis of calm, and the nearby lanes and alleys quiet down at bedtime. You'd never know you were just steps away from what's got to be the city's wildest piazza, Piazza Carracolli (sp?). We wouldn't stay anyplace else.