Just before one o'clock on a November weekday, Piazza San Domenico does what it has done for three centuries. People cross it. A woman walks out of the frame with a Rinascente bag on her arm and a yellow coat folded over it. Another sits on the stone step below the column, phone in hand, back to the church. Nobody looks up. Look up anyway. The bronze Virgin on top of the … [Read more...] about Piazza San Domenico in Palermo, Where a Baroque Church and a Department Store Sell the Same View
