INTERRENT Car Rental at Palermo Airport

Open from 8.00 am to midnight every day of the week, the InterRent car rental station at Palermo Airport can be contacted by phone on tel +39 06 4522 9545. Reservations can be made using the form above.

InterRent car rental Palermo Airport offers affordable deals that include unlimited kilometers, car passenger insurance and partial Collision Damage Waiver protection. The InterRent fleet at Palermo Airport includes Mini and Economy categories cars just right for exploring the province and immediate surroundings, cars like the Nissan Juke or Renault Capture.

InterRent is one of many companies providing car rentals at Palermo Airport.

Some 50 minutes down south-east from Palermo lies the town of Caccamo, still guarded by one of Italy's largest, and best preserved, medieval castles to this day. Perched some 521 meters above sea level, the uppermost parts of the little town seems to spill from the castle, cascading down the hillsides with red-baked roofs and golden sandstone walls. Built by the Normans in 1093, when the town was founded, the castle sits on a rocky outcrop of the slopes of Mount San Calogero, before the dramatic backdrop of other mountainous hills and the San Leonardo river valley.

Caccamo is not far from the Tyrrhenian coast, and can be reached by taking the SS285, which links with the A19 and A20 motorway junctions. Today the castle is devoted to far less war-like functions than it was when it was built: it houses a restaurant on the ground level, and a museum, the Museo delle Armi. There are also various exhibition rooms that show minerals and fossils and a room devoted to the history of the Castellana, a quaint custom that lasted from the latter part of the 11th century to this millennium. Each year a Castellana, a lady of the Castle, was elected, and paraded through the castle and town with great pomp and circumstance, including many participants in period costume, such as knights, pages and town criers.

Legend has it that Caccamo was originally Carthage of Sicily, a famous city from Antiquity that Carthaginian soldiers, having escaped death after the Battle of Himera, founded in 480 BC. Whether this is true or not is still being debated by historians. However, the theory found some credence due to coins, weapons and tools found in the area that dated from that period and suggested that Carthaginians had left them behind. Every first Sunday of the month it's free to visit the Castle of Caccomo. At other times, admission is 4.00 euros per person. The castle is open from Mondays to Sundays, from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm, and again from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm. Under 18's go free (email: turismo@comune.caccamo.pa.it).

Much of the medieval town layout remains to this day, including the 13th century road structure in the Terravecchia and Rabbato districts. There is much more to see than "just" the huge castle: the town may only have about 8,500 residents, but there are more than 46 churches, many of them very beautiful and well worth seeing. To see the Cathedral church of Caccamo potential visitors need to speak to the Proloco on +39 091 812 2032 or +39 091 339 584 8604 to arrange a time and date.