{"id":3710,"date":"2017-10-23T14:03:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palermocityguides.com\/?page_id=3710"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:52:06","slug":"palermo-fights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palermocityguides.com\/en\/palermo-is-myth-it-is-the-essence-of-the-mediterranean\/palermo-fights\/","title":{"rendered":"Fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"324\"><strong data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"158\">Palermo Fights!<\/strong>\u00a0The city has not stood by while its bravest children\u2014often unknown heroes\u2014fell victim to the will and power of the Mafia and the corrupt parts of the institutions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"326\" data-end=\"624\">Palermo has reacted and continues to react, openly opposing illegality in many ways. It supports those who refuse to pay the\u00a0<strong data-start=\"451\" data-end=\"460\">pizzo<\/strong>\u00a0(protection money), shows solidarity with the most vulnerable members of the population, and multiplies initiatives teaching\u00a0<strong data-start=\"586\" data-end=\"605\">legal awareness<\/strong>\u00a0to young people.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"626\" data-end=\"870\">The city rediscovers its oldest parts and slowly brings them back to life. It draws attention to forgotten and degraded neighborhoods, transforming them almost into open-air\u00a0<strong data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"828\">contemporary art museums<\/strong>\u00a0through the language of\u00a0<strong data-start=\"853\" data-end=\"867\">street art<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"872\" data-end=\"893\"><strong data-start=\"872\" data-end=\"891\">Palermo fights!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palermo Fights!\u00a0The city has not stood by while its bravest children\u2014often unknown heroes\u2014fell victim to the will and power of the Mafia and the corrupt parts of the institutions. Palermo has reacted and continues to react, openly opposing illegality in many ways. It supports those who refuse to pay the\u00a0pizzo\u00a0(protection money), shows solidarity with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1102,"parent":275,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"palermo-sub.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3710","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fights - Palermo City Guides<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Palermo fights! 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