Palermo downtown is closed today Sunday 3 October for an official visit of the Pope Benedict XVI.

Buses into Palermo city centre are free and a map of where you can pick up these buses is here Palermo Pope.

Make sure you get a standing position along Via della Liberta or Via Roma where you should get a glimpse of the Pope in his Popemobile. See the Pope’s route here Pope Palermo.

Click here for further details about Palermo airport PMO .

The Vatican have caught up with the modern times. The Pope Benedict XVI , has launced a You tube video channel.

By 1630 GMT, http://it.youtube.com/vatican had drawn a total of 14,606 views and signed up just 528 subscribers to what the Holy See describes as “the Catholic Church’s position regarding the principal issues of the world today.”
The channel, which was to be updated regularly with daily offerings on the the main activities of the pontiff and other Vatican events, lagged way down the list of popular YouTube videos.
The Holy See already runs a website, TV channel, and radio station, but the deal with YouTube owner Google was aimed to “secure the Pope’s presence on the web,” Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano said Thursday.

Pope Benedict XVI’s launch of a Vatican channel on global video-sharing website YouTube fell on slightly deaf ears today Friday 23rd January 2009.