 SIT Package Highlights include:Small Group Tour
• Taormina: two nights accommodation, sea view room
• Palermo: three nights accommodation
• Daily breakfast buffet;
• Taormina: one dinner at local restaurant with set group menù
• Palermo: one dinner in a local trattoria with set group menù
• One light lunch at olive oil factory/farmhouse with tasting of local dishes
• One visit to Sicilian cellar with Sicilian wine tasting
• Vehicle/coach with air conditioning, no toilet
• English speaking Tour Director/Driver-Guide as per program
• All sightseeing, tasting and excursions as specified in the itinerary
• Hotel & VAT
The price does not includeIntercontinental Flight; Gratuities to Tour Director/Driver-Guide, Local Guide
and Driver; Porterage at airport; Luggage handling fee at hotel; Beverages
and meals not mentioned in the program; Travel Insurance; Tips; Round trip
airport transfers; Admission/entrance fees; Optional Excursions; Licensed
local guide if less than 8 people on the tour; City Taxes
Price per person fromLow Season: Double $1427, Single $1793
Peak Season: Double $1586, Single $1951
Easter surcharge(April 3): $191
Departure DatesLow Season: January 17th, 31st; February 14th, 28th; March 13th, 27th;
November 6th, 13th; December 4th, 11th
Peak Season: April 3rd (Easter), 10th,17th, 24th; May 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd,
29th; June 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th; July 3rd, 10th, 17th; September 4th, 11th,
18th, 25th; October 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th;
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Discover Sicily’s beauty and charm. Join us on a magical journey that
takes you from the West (Palermo) and ends in East (Taormina). Visit
the main monuments in Palermo, Cefalů, and the hilltop town of Erice.
Explore the ancient Greek temples of Agrigento, the ancient Roman
mosaics of Piazza Armerina. Follow the “salt pan road”, sample some
of the most delightful sweets and witness the ancient monuments left
behind by the Greeks in Siracusa and Taormina.
Day 1 Tuesday - Catania/Taormina Welcome to the warm, beautiful and pleasant island of Sicily! Independent transfer to your hotel In Taormina. The rest of the day at leisure.
Day 2 Wednesday - TaorminaToday is at leisure or Optional Excursion. (BB)
Day 3 Thursday - Piazza Armerina, Agrigento, Palermo
After breakfast depart to Piazza Armerina where we will view the ruins of the Roman Villa of Casale (Admission Fee: not included). The mosaics discovered here are celebrated among scholars of antiquity. This afternoon continue to Agrigento. This afternoon we will visit the finest of all ancient Greek sites—the complete Doric Temples (Admission Fee: not included). Then we will continue to Palermo, the capital of Sicily.
Tonight dinner in a local trattoria. (BB D)
Day 4 Friday - Erice, Salt Way Road, Segesta
Early departure to tour western Sicily where we reach Erice, a medieval hilltop town that was settled by the Elymians. An important religious site associated with the goddess of Venus. Wander through its ancient streets and visit some of the famous homemade pastry shops - world-famous for marzipan candies and other delicacies like almond and pistachio pastries. Later we travel to Trapani on the Salt Way Road. We tour the historic salt flats works, where the ancient tradition of harvesting salt from the sea is still practiced. Then, to an olive oil factory-farmhouse to enjoy a lunch. This afternoon we continue onto Segesta, one of the major cities of the ancient indigenous Elymian people, to visit the unfinished Doric temple (Admission Fee: not included), late 5th century BC, built on a hilltop just outside of the ancient city and has a commanding view of the surrounding area. Then to a local winery to taste Sicilian wine. We then return to Palermo. (BB L)
Day 5 Saturday - Monreale, Palermo, Cefalù
Breakfast at your hotel. Our first stop is Monreale. Visit the Arab-Norman Duomo, that was launched in 1174 by William II. It represents scenes from the Old and New Testaments all in golden mosaics. Then onto Palermo to explore the lively Capo Market, a large open air street market that captures the flavor of Palermo's Saracen Arab past. Capo is a blend of general confusion and a jumble of vendors' stalls, winding toward the old gate --Porta Carini-- of what used to be the city wall. This afternoon we continue by visiting Piazza Pretoria and Via Maqueda, whose “four corners” converge Palermo at a quartet of baroque palaces left over from the heyday of Spanish rule dating from 1560. This afternoon depart for Cefalů, a charming coastal town home to a massive Norman Cathedral with outstanding mosaics. Here we visit the city as we make our way to the Cathedral. Later we return to Palermo (BB)
Day 6 Sunday - Palermo
Time to say goodbye to Sicily. Independent transfer to Palermo airport. (BB)
Meal Legend:
BB Buffet Breakfast L Lunch or Light Lunch D Dinner
Please Note:
This tour is operated only with a Driver-Guide up to 7 people.
The Driver Guide is not a Licensed Tourist Guide --Licensed Tourist Guides are the only professionals, with a Regional license, permitted to conduct visits and tours in all sites and museums within a city -- and he cannot escort you inside the monuments because this is not allowed by Italian Rules.
From 8 people, the tour is operated with a Tour Director. Licensed Tourist Guide are provided on the spot as below specified:
• Monreale & Palermo: maximum 4 hours;
• Agrigento: maximum 2 hours;
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