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 SIT Package Highlights include:
• Accommodation in 4 stars Hotels
• Welcome cocktail
• Full board basis (dinner on first day til
breakfast on last day)
• Bus GT or minivan with driver/guide
for groups with less than 15 pax
• Tour escort
• Local guides where necessary
• Porterage at hotels
• Tasting of typical Sicilian products
(wine, chocolate, biscuits, etc) in Ragusa
• Wine/Oil tasting in Selinunte and on Mt Etna
The price does not include • Transfers in/out; Entrance fees; Beverages
• Everything which is not clearly specified under 'Highlights include'
Our HotelsHotels may be substituted with similar category
Palermo
Hotel Principe di Villafranca ****
Catania
Excelsior Grand Hotel ****
Ragusa
Mediterraneo Palace ****
Agrigento
Hotel della Valle ****
Price per person fromDouble $1342 Single supplement $302 Triple $1322
Departure DatesDeparting every Saturday from March 31st until October 27th
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Discover Sicily through its history, culture, archeology, food and wine. Stay at high quality accommodation in the historical areas of the main Sicilian towns. Food and wine tastings and all meals included.
Day 1 Saturday - PalermoIndependent arrival at Hotel Principe di Villafranca in Palermo. Enjoy a welcome
cocktail. Dinner and overnight in your hotel.
Day 2 Sunday - Palermo, Cefalù, Capo d'Orlando, Taormina, Catania
 After a buffet breakfast, depart to Cefalù, a charming coastal town, a former fishing
village, which is also home to a breathtaking Norman Cathedral with dazzling
mosaics. Take a stroll to the city center and down main street to reach the Cathedral
and the medieval wash-house built in the rock. Proceed to Capo d’Orlando along
the Tyrrhenian coast and stop for lunch. Continue to Taormina called “the pearl of
the Ionic Sea”, founded in 400 BC and beautifully located overlooking the sea and
the peak of Mount Etna. Enjoy time at leisure to shop for handmade lace, coral
jewels, ceramics, home-made sweets and preserves down “Corso Umberto” or
simply walk through the tiny streets. Possibility to visit the fascinating Roman -
Greek theatre. Proceed to Catania. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at the
Excelsior Grand Hotel Catania.
Day 3 Monday - Mt Etna, Catania
After a buffet breakfast, weather conditions permitting, excursion to Mount Etna,
the highest active volcano in Europe. Across fascinating landscape, we will reach a
height of 2000 metres, where we will enjoy a fantastic panorama of the Ionic Sea.
Lunch in a farmhouse on the slopes of Etna and wine tasting of local production.
Back to Catania, the town known for its original baroque style and for its streets
built with black lava stone from mount Etna. Walking tour through Via Etnea, the
Baroque street “Via Crociferi”, Piazza Duomo with the Cathedral and the “Liotru”
statue, symbol of the city, the roman Amphitheatre, the Opera House (external
visit), the University, and the noble Palace of Biscari (external visit). Dinner and
overnight in your Hotel.
Day 4 Tuesday - Siracusa, Noto, Modica, Ragusa
he evening in time for an enjoyable and relaxing dinner at your hotel.
After a buffet breakfast, depart to Syracuse to visit the most beautiful Greek
colony of Sicily. Visit of the archaeological area including the famous Latomie of
the Paradise, the Greek Theatre, the Roman Amphitheatre and the Dyonisios “Ear”.
Visit the island of Ortigia, the small baroque old city centre of Siracusa, built by
the Aragonians: here you can admire the Cathedral and the “Fontana Aretusa”.
Lunch in a local restaurant. In the afternoon, depart to Noto, one of the most
beautiful cities in Sicily renowned for the harmony and unity of its Baroque style
and today declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Proceed to Modica, one of
the most picturesque cities of all Sicily, rich of important churches such as San
Giorgio and San Pietro and panoramic tour. Continue to Ragusa, a city that is
divided into two parts: the upper part built after the earthquake in 1693 and the
lower part that is called Ragusa Ibla, one of the most important testimony of the
Baroque architecture. Enjoy a tasting of Sicilian typical products in a nice bar in the
main square by the Dome, “Basilica di San Giorgio”. Accommodation, dinner and
overnight at Hotel Mediterraneo Palace.
Day 5 Wednesday - Caltagirone, Piazza Armerina, AgrigentoAfter a buffet breakfast, depart to Caltagirone famous for the production of
ceramics and pottery: visit of a ceramics laboratory and opportunity of shopping.
Continue to Piazza Armerina and visit the worldwide known Villa Romana del
Casale: it is the richest, largest and most complex collection of late Roman mosaics
in the world Lunch in a local restaurant. Continue to Agrigento: visit of the Valley of
the Temples including the Temple of Juno, Concord, Heracles, Zeus, Castor & Pollux
that represent the most beautiful example of the Greek Civilization in Sicily. Dinner
at Hotel Della Valle. Overnight in Agrigento.
Day 6 Thursday - Selinunte, Segesta, Palermo
 After a buffet breakfast, depart to the Archaeological park of Selinunte, the largest
in the Mediterranean area with the impressive Temples and Acropolis. After the
visit stop in a local farmhouse (famous for olive oil production) where before lunch
it will be possible to have a wine and oil tasting of local production. Proceed to
Segesta to visit the Doric Temple which keeps in its stones the weight of a long
history, surrounded by a unique landscape. Proceed to Palermo. Accommodation,
dinner and overnight at Hotel Principe di Villafranca.
Day 7 Friday - Palermo, Monreale, Erice (optional), Palermo
After a buffet breakfast. morning visit of the Capital of Sicily, one of the richest
towns in the island for history and art: the Cathedral, the “Palatina” Chapel, and
panoramic tour of the town (the “Quattro Canti”, the Opera House, the Pretoria
Square). We will continue to Monreale to admire the Cathedral with its splendid
12th century mosaics and the cloister of the Benedictines monastery with Moorish
architecture. Lunch in your Hotel. Afternoon at leisure or optional excursion to
Erice, a medieval town full of myth, history and art which sits on top of Mt. Erice,
overlooking the city of Trapani and the Egadi Islands. Panoramic tour of the saltwoks
of Trapani. Dinner and overnight in your Hotel.
Day 8 Friday - Palermo
After buffet breakfast, end of tour.
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