Editing Palermo (section)

=== Italian unification ===

[[File:Giuseppe Garibaldi entering Palermo.jpg|thumb|[[Giuseppe Garibaldi]] entering Palermo on 27 May 1860]]

[[File:Palermo - panoramio (22).jpg|thumb|The historic [[Grand Hotel et des Palmes]]]]

The majority of [[Sicilians]] preferred independence to annexation to the Savoy kingdom; in 1866, Palermo became the seat of a week-long popular rebellion, which was finally crushed after [[martial law]] was declared.<ref name="Riall1998">{{cite book |author=Lucy Riall |title=Sicily and the Unification of Italy : Liberal Policy and Local Power, 1859–1866: Liberal Policy and Local Power, 1859–1866 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZg4ecXXmNYC&pg=PA198 |date=12 March 1998 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-154261-9 |pages=198– |access-date=25 November 2015 |archive-date=1 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101232343/https://books.google.com/books?id=wZg4ecXXmNYC&pg=PA198 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Italian government blamed [[anarchist]]s and the Church, specifically the Archbishop of Palermo, for the rebellion and began enacting anti-Sicilian and anti-clerical policies.<ref name="Riall1998"/> A new cultural, economic and industrial growth was spurred by several families, like the [[Florio]], the Ducrot, the [[Rutelli]], the [[Sandron]], the Whitaker, the [[Utveggio]], and others. In the early twentieth century, Palermo expanded outside the old city walls, mostly to the north along the new boulevards ''Via Roma'', ''Via Dante'', ''Via Notarbartolo'', and ''Viale della Libertà''. These roads would soon boast a huge number of villas in the [[Art Nouveau]] style. Many of these were designed by the architect [[Ernesto Basile]]. The Grand Hotel [[Villa Igiea]], designed by Ernesto Basile for the [[Florio]] family, is a good example of Palermitan Art Nouveau. The huge [[Teatro Massimo]] was designed in the same period by [[Giovan Battista Filippo Basile]], Ernesto's father, and built by the Rutelli & Machì building firm of the industrial and old [[Rutelli]] Italian family in Palermo, and was opened in 1897.