«Panormus conca aurea suos devorat alienos nutrit» (Palermo the golden dell, devours hers and feeds the foreigners. Latin inscription on the edge of the basin of the Genius statue at City Hall of Palermo.)

The Genius of Palermo (in Italian Genio di Palermo, also called as Genio or Palermo) is one of the city symbols and the laic patron of Palermo. Was the ancient numen and genius loci of the Sicilian city.

The Genius is the emblem of Palermo, the personification of the city, and symbol of its inhabitants, of every origin or ethnic, cultural, religious and social. Perhaps its origins are pre-Roman, but there is a mythology Check on the archetipo of the legendary and mysterious patron deity, whose origins are uncertain and symbols. According to the myths passed down from Ovid in the first century symbolized the genius loci, or the metamorphosis of the male figure. The snake symbolized Scipio Africanus helped by Palermo in the war against the Carthaginians of Hannibal. Scipio would have won the gratitude a hollow golden city, with a central statue of a warrior who had a snake from his chest. The symbolism of the serpent, may have more than one meaning: it is linked to land and water, fertility, rebirth and renewal, the animal is also a symbol of prudence, antagonist of the sun, and bearer of knowledge related to physical force. In addition to the snake, the attributes of Engineers are the crown, scepter and the dog. In 1400 the jurors of Palermo adopted the image of engineering in their arms. The Genius of Revolution Square will find a new role during the riots of 1848, becoming the symbol of the desire for freedom and emancipation from Palermo Bourbon rule: in that time the people in revolt gathered around the statue, draped in the flag in protest. Personifying the ideals of the city took on a role as a lay patron, complementary to that of Santa Rosalia.

Palermo (Italian: [paˈlɛrmo] ( listen), Sicilian: Palermu, Latin: Panormus, from Greek: Πάνορμος, Panormos, Arabic: بَلَرْم‎, Balarm; Phoenician: זִיז, Ziz) is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is located in the northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

The city was founded by the Phoenicians, but named by the Ancient Greeks as Panormus meaning 'always fit for landing in.' Palermo became part of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and eventually part of the Byzantine Empire, for over a thousand years. From 827 to 1071 it was under Arab rule during the Emirate of Sicily when it first became a capital. Following the Norman reconquest, Palermo became capital of a new kingdom (from 1130 to 1816), the Kingdom of Sicily. Eventually it would be united with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Two Sicilies until the Italian unification of 1860.

Carlos Gardel (11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a singer, songwriter and actor, and is perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. The unerring musicality of Gardel's baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics made miniature masterpieces of his hundreds of three-minute tango recordings. Together with lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos.

Gardel died in an airplane crash at the height of his career, becoming an archetypal tragic hero mourned throughout Latin America. For many, Gardel embodies the soul of the tango style. He is commonly referred to as "Carlitos", "El Zorzal" (The Song Thrush), "The King of Tango", "El Mago" (The Magician) and "El Mudo" (The Mute).

Gardel was born to an unmarried woman, laundress Berthe Gardes; the baby registered under the name Charles Romuald Gardes in Toulouse, France, on 11 December 1890, although many Uruguayans argue that he was born earlier in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. The father of the baby boy is unknown. His mother traveled from France to the Rio de la Plata area because of the Tierra del Fuego gold rush. Gardel lived in Argentina from the age of two, and three decades later he acquired Argentine citizenship in 1923. He grew up in the Abasto neighborhood of Buenos Aires. He attended Pio IX Industrial high-school located in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

Edgardo Donato (April 14, 1897 - February 15, 1963) was a tango composer and orchestra leader, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, raised from a young age and musically trained in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Francesco Crispi (Ribera, October 4, 1819 – Naples, August 11, 1901) was a 19th-century Italian politician from Sicily. He was among the key figures in the Italian Risorgimento and a close friend and supporter of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi, and one of the architects of the unification of Italy in 1860.

He was Italy's 17th and 20th Prime Minister for six years, from 1887 until 1891 and again from 1893 until 1896. Originally an enlightened Italian patriot and democrat liberal he went on to become a bellicose authoritarian prime minister and ally and admirer of Bismarck. He is often seen as a precursor of Benito Mussolini.

Crispi’s paternal family came originally from the small agricultural community of Palazzo Adriano, in south-western Sicily. It had been founded in later fifteenth century by Catholic Albanians (later Arbëreshë), who settled in Sicily after the Ottoman occupation of Albania. Crispi himself was born in Ribera, Sicily and baptised as a Greek Orthodox. Belonging to a family of Albanian descent, he spoke Italian as his third language.