Palermo Airport Rental Car with Hire Car Italy - Your best source for great value Car Rental in Italy!
We offer you 2 quotation engines to allow you to get the best price for your Hire Car in Italy. Just choose which one you want, and compare prices. Both of our engines offer many locations around Italy, and a full fleet of cars is available for hire, from 3 door economy models all the way up to Executive Sedans. We deal only with major, quality-assured hire car companies including Alamo, Budget, Europcar, National, Sixt and Thrifty.
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The rates shown are the special internet rates for self booking. There are no discounts available if you phone - you should use the booking form.
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48 Hours Notice is REQUIRED for all bookings. We cannot book cars with less notice, or on the day. We at Hire Car Italy look forward to providing for all your car hire needs. We pride ourselves on an excellent level of service at a very competitive price. With a large variety of cars and locations to choose from, Hire Car Italy is an ideal choice for affordable car hire whether you are renting for business or pleasure. Our online services are quick and easy to use and will provide you with the best value Hire Car quotes from our suppliers. We have negotiated the best online prices from our suppliers.
To help you enjoy your hire car holiday we have some details about this area of Italy below and general Italian driving information is available on our Hire Car Italy Travel Information page.
Palermo (Palermo in Italian) (Palermu or Palemmu in Sicilian) (population 680,000) is the principal city and administrative seat of the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy. Palermo survived almost the entire fascist period unscathed, but during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 the harbour and the surrounding quarters were bombed heavily by the allied forces and were all but completely destroyed. Six decades later the city centre had still not been fully rebuilt, and hollow walls and devastated buidings are commonplace. The importance of Palermo got another boost when Sicily became (1947) an autonomous region with extended self-rule. Palermo again was the seat of a parliament, as it had been in the Middle Ages, and the future looked bright. Unfortunately, many opportunities were lost in the coming decades, due to incompetence, incapacity, corruption and abuse of power. The reduced importance of agriculture in the Sicilian economy led to a massive migration to the cities, and mostly to Palermo, that swelled in size. Instead of rebuilding the city centre the town was thrown into a frantic expansion towards the north, where practically a new town was built. The regulatory plan for the expansion was largely ignored, as contractors bribed the city officials who themselves profited massively from the sacking of Palermo, as it was commonly called. New parts of town appeared almost out of nowhere, but without parks, schools, public buildings, proper roads and the other amenities that characterise a modern city. The Mafia played a huge role in this process, which was an important element in the Mafia's transition from a mostly rural phenomenon into a modern criminal organisation. At the turn of the 21st century, Palermo is still struggling to recover from the devastation of World War II and the damage caused by decades of uncontrolled urban growth. The historic city centre is still partly in ruins, the traffic is horrific, and poverty is widespread. Being the city in which the Italian Mafia historically had its main interests, it has also been the place of several recent well-publicized murders. Palermo is a city with monumental problems, but is also a city of almost three millennia of history, beautiful palaces and churches, colourful markets, marvelous food and a distinctive cultural identity.
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