Boilermakers Street (Via Calderai), Palermo
In the evening, I went to restock at the LIDL supermarket on Via Roma 59. Since I never take the same route, this time I took Via Calderai, which connects my "native" Via Maqueda with Via Roma.
![Palermo Palermo. Kotelshchikov Street](http://ps1.lpsphoto.top/16/1027/160337.jpg)
The first floors of the buildings on this street are occupied by small shops-workshops where they make all kinds of metal kitchen utensils and utensils.
![Palermo Palermo. Kotelshchikov Street](http://ps1.lpsphoto.top/16/1027/160406.jpg)
Caldaia in Italian means a tank or boiler for heating water and cooking food (from calda-gryachy, to heat). This is one of the few places in Palermo that has preserved its own characteristics since the Middle Ages. Here, on the territory of the Jewish quarter, for a long time lived tinsmiths and tinkers who made metal dishes.
![Palermo Palermo. Kotelshchikov Street](http://ps1.lpsphoto.top/16/1027/160356.jpg)
Even today, you can buy tanks, pots, basins, ladles of all types and sizes here,
![Palermo Palermo. Kotelshchikov Street](http://ps1.lpsphoto.top/16/1027/160254.jpg)
cookers, racks with baking trays, and other items made of copper, aluminum, or stainless steel.
![Palermo Palermo. Kotelshchikov Street](http://ps1.lpsphoto.top/16/1027/160515.jpg)
Roasters, trays, grates for cooking in oil, hoods and much more.
![Palermo Palermo. Kotelshchikov Street](http://ps1.lpsphoto.top/16/1027/160430.jpg)
Logistics here is simple - finished products are displayed directly on the street.
![Palermo Palermo. Kotelshchikov Street](http://ps1.lpsphoto.top/16/1027/160509.jpg)
The Scottish short story writer and traveller of the Industrial Revolution, who visited Palermo in the early 19th century, wrote about Via Calderai: "This street is the most noisy I have ever seen in Europe."
![Palermo Palermo. Kotelshchikov Street](http://ps1.lpsphoto.top/16/1027/160438.jpg)
In our time, here, too, during the day, you can hear the screeching of power tools and fly showers of sparks.
![Palermo Palermo. Kotelshchikov Street](http://ps1.lpsphoto.top/16/1027/160421.jpg)
Nevertheless, the current small production facilities feel great in the first floors of multi-storey residential buildings.
![Palermo Palermo. Kotelshchikov Street](http://ps1.lpsphoto.top/16/1027/160530.jpg)