This city is in Sicily, an island at Italy's "toe" (in the southern tip). Day trips from your Palermo resort include Monreale to admire the cathedral with its splendid 12th-century mosaics, and the cloister of the Benedictine monastery with its magnificent Moorish design. Famous for its Norman architecture, Palermo has many cathedrals and churches dating back to the 10th and 11th centuries.