Sicilian Gateway Tour - 5 days

Sicilian Gateway Tour – Private Tour of Sicily

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Our 100% Sicilian Local Expert Trip Designers, have crafted itineraries that blend walking, hiking, historica-archaeological-cultura sites, sauntering and meandering with a culinary story that entails cooking classes, meal experience in picnic style, personalized visits to local farms, tastings of local specialties, cheese factories, wine and olive oil tastings and of course, unforgettable meals.

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Tour Recap

4 nights/5 days
Palermo (2 nights) Taormina (2 nights)

1st day – Palermo airport > Transfer to: Palermo
2nd day – Palermo Street Food Walking Tour and Monreale – half day
3th day – Palermo > Agrigento and Piazza Armerina > Taormina
4th day – Relax in Taormina
5th day – Taormina > Catania airport

Tour Offer: valid with a minimum 2 people
Special Deal: available for family and friends plan

TOUR CODE: GATE5

Category
Multi Days, Multiday Private Tours of Sicily
Location
Agrigento, Monreale, Palermo, Piazza Armerina, Taormina
Grade
Moderate
Days
5
Nights
4
Season
All Year
Hotel Accommodation
On Request
Airline Ticket
Not Included
Private Vehicle
from 2 up to 7 people

Day 1

Palermo Airport > Town

Welcome to the warm, beautiful and pleasant island of Sicily!

Upon arrival at Palermo Falcone-Borsellino Airport, please proceed through Passport Control and collect your luggage inside the customs area.

Our italian-speaking driver will be waiting for you at the arrival department.

Then transfer to your hotel.

Day 2

Palermo Street Food Walking Tour and Monreale

Today you are greeted at Palermo hotel and driven by taxi to Monreale to see with your expert Guide where the Arab-Norman art and architecture reached the pinnacle of its glory with the Dome (Admission fee: not included). Launched in 1174 by William II, it represents the scenes from the Old and New Testaments all in golden mosaics.

Later the taxi will drive you back to Palermo to continue your walking tour of the city center. Explore a large open air street market (Capo or Ballarò) that captures the flavor of Palermo’s Saracen Arab past. Enjoy a local street food tasting inside the market. Then continue by seeing “four corners” that converge Palermo at a quartet of baroque palaces left over from the heyday of Spanish rule dating from 1560, Piazza Pretoria and Via Maqueda.

The tour ends at Piazza Verdi (Massimo Opera Theatre square). Independent transfer to your hotel. This afternoon is at leisure.

RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL DAY TOUR
#1 - Cooking Class and dine with locals, half day PM
#2 - Sailing Sunset Tour, half day PM

Day 3

Palermo > Agrigento and Piazza Armerina > Taormina

Today we drive through the interior of Sicily to reach Agrigento to see the Valley of the Temples: two hours independent audio-guide walking tour on the Valley of the Temples an important Unesco World Heritage site covers the Temple of Hera, the Temple of Concordia, the Temple of Hercules and the Temple of Zeus.

Agrigento, according to legend, was founded by Daedalus and his son Icarus after they had fled from Crete “by air”. Historically, however, its origins date back to 582 B.C. when it was founded by Rhodian-Cretan colonist from the neighboring Gela who named their city Akragas after the nearby river. It rapidly increased in size, importance and military strength under Phalarides, the first tyrant, and later under Theron, who extended his way over northern Sicily as far as Himera.

Later departure for Piazza Armerina, situated deep in the Sicilian hinterland, at 721 metres above sea level. Upon arrival we visit the Roman Villa, built in the middle of the 4th Century AD as a hunting lodge by a Roman patrician.

The Villa is home to some of the best preserved and extensive examples of Roman mosaics spread over around 3500mt and is one of the most luxurious of its kind. These extraordinarily vivid mosaics, probably produced by North African artisans, deal with numerous subjects, ranging from Homeric escapades and mythological scenes to portrayals of daily life, including the famous tableau of girls exercising in their “bikinis”.

We then continue to Taormina.

Day 4

Relax in Taormina

Today is at Leisure to explore the town on your own.

Taormina has long since been Sicily’s most favourite resort town, perched on a coastal bluff that looks out to the Tyrrhenian Sea between Messina and Catania in the north east of the island. Its ancient narrow streets are full of little specialist shops, cafes and restaurants, which are an invitation to step into the spell cast by this intriguing town. The town’s history is vibrant and complicated and dates back to the Ancient Greek period. Taormina was settled in 395 BC by residents from the nearby city of Giardini- Naxos, Sicily’s oldest Greek established city dating back to 735 BC. Giardini Naxos was where the Greeks established their colony during their domination of Sicily.

RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL DAY TOUR
#1 - Cooking Class with lunch, half day AM
#2 - Boat Tour Experience, half day
#3 - Godfather village (independent visit: Savoca and Forza d'Agrò), half day
#4 - Taormina Walking Tour (guided visit: Greek Roman Theatre), half day
#5 - Taormina Street Food Tour, half day AM/PM
#6 - Etna WD4X4 Jeep, full day wil lunch

Day 5

Taormina > Catania airport

Private vehicle and Italian speaking chauffeur disposal: transfer out only

Today transfer to the airport.

Included