Metropolitan City of Palermo Metropolitan City of Palermo The Metropolitan City of Palermo () is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy. Its capital is the city of Palermo. It replaced the Province of Palermo and comprises the city of Palermo and other 82 municipalities ("comuni"). It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by regional law on 15 August 2015.. The Metropolitan City faces the Tyrrhenian Sea on the north, it while on the west it is bordered by the province of Trapani, on the south by the province of Agrigento and by that of Caltanissetta, to
Capital city meaning "head". In several English-speaking states, the terms county town and county seat are also used in lower subdivisions. In some unitary states, subnational capitals may be known as "administrative centres". The capital is often the largest city of its constituent, though not always. Historically, the major economic centre of a state or region often becomes the focal point of political power, and becomes a capital through conquest or federation. (The modern capital city has, however, not always existed: in medieval Western Europe, an itinerant (wandering) government was common.) Examples are Ancient Babylon, Abbasid Baghdad, Ancient Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Chang'an,