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1st
Day /Saturday : PALERMO
Transfer on your own to your hotel. Welcome cocktail
and orientation meeting with your tour escort. Dinner
and overnight at your hotel
2nd Day/Sun : PALERMO - SEGESTA
- ERICE - MARSALA
After breakfast, depart for Segesta to visit the Doric
Temple of the 5th century BC. and the Greek Theater.
Lunch on your own in Erice and visit of the medieval
town. Proceed to Trapani stopping for wine tasting
and a visit in Trapani to the Salt Museum with its
mines and ancient windmills. Dinner and overnight
at your hotel in Marsala
3rd Day/Mon : MARSALA - MOTHIA
- SELINUNTE - AGRIGENTO
After breakfast depart by boat to Mothia Island; the
most important Phoenician colony in Sicily. Then continue
to Cusa quarry. Lunch on your own in Selinunte. Visit
the Acropolis and proceed to Agrigento. Dinner at
your hotel and visit by coach to the lighted Temples.
Overnight.
4th Day/Tuesday : AGRIGENTO
- PIAZZA ARMERINA - CALTAGIRONE - S.M. GANZARIA
After breakfast visit the Archaeological Museum and
the famous Valley of the Temples. Lunch at the hotelZ.
Then proceed to Piazza Armerina and visit the
famed Villa Romana del Casale
with its 3.500 square meters of mosaics. Continue
to Caltagirone, the Baroque town well known for its
ceramics. Dinner and overnight at your hotel in San
Michele di Ganzaria, a typical agricoltural village.
5th Day/Wednesday : S.M.
GANZARIA - PANTALICA-PALAZZOLO ACREIDE-SIRACUSA
After breakfast, leave for Pantalica. Be sure to wear
comfortable shoes to walk through beautiful mountains
where an ancient civilization was born during the
Bronze age. Proceed to Palazzolo Acreide, the ancient
Greek colony of Akrai and visit the Theater. Lunch
in a typical restaurant along the river. Proceed to
Syracuse. Visit the Archaeological Museum. Dinner
and overnight at your hotel.
6th Day/Thursday : SIRACUSA
- NOTO - MODICA - RAGUSA
After breakfast, tour Siracusa including the most
famous Greek theater of Sicily, the legendary Dyonisius'
Ear, the Roman amphitheatre, the Latomie. Visit the
island of Ortigia, historical center of Syracuse,
as well as treasure of Baroque
style. Lunch on your own and
leave for Noto famed for its Baroque style. Stop in
Modica, also know for its Baroque architecture. Continue
to Ragusa. Dinner on your own. Overnight at your hotel.
7th Day/Fri : RAGUSA-CATANIA
- MT ETNA - TAORMINA AREA
After breakfast, depart for Catania, enjoy an orientation
tour of the city then, conditions permitting, continue
to Mt. Etna, the highest and the most active volcano
of Europe climbing to 1.800 meters. Possibility of
an optional excursion by cable-car to 3.000 meters.
Lunch on your own, then descend and proceed to Taormina
area. Dinner and overnight at your hotel.
8th Day/Sat :TAORMINA AREA
- MESSINA - R CALABRIA - TAORMINA AREA
After breakfast PANORAMIC visit of Messina and depart
for Reggio di Calabria by hydrofoil. Visit of the
museum with the famous "Bronzi of Riace".
Return to Taormina. Free time for lunch on your own.
Visit of the Greek Theater . Time at leisure . Dinner
and overnight at your hotel.
9th Day/Sun : TAORMINA AREA-
VULCANO - LIPARI- VULCANO
After breakfast, depart for Milazzo . Depart by hydrofoil
to reach Vulcano one of the Aeolian Islands. Continue
to Lipari to visit the village and with the possibility
of a visit to the Archaeological Museum (optional).
Lunch on your own . Return to Vulcano . Dinner and
overnight at your hotel .
10th Day/Monday : VULCANO -
STROMBOLI - VULCANO
After breakfast enjoy an excursion to Stromboli with
its volcano and the "Sciara". Free time
for lunch on your own and to enjoy the village. Return
to Vulcano. Dinner and overnight at your hotel.
11th Day/Tue: VULCANO - TINDARI
- SANTO STEFANO CAMASTRA - TUSA
Breakfast at your hotel. Morning at leisure with time
for lunch on your own. Embark for Milazzo, then proceed
to Tusa, stopping on route in Tindari for a
view on the sand-tongues and
the old town ruins and small stop in Santo Stefano
di Camastra, famous for its ceramics. Dinner and overnight
at your hotel in Tusa.
12th Day/Wednesday: TUSA
- CASTELBUONO - CEFALU - SOLUNTO - PALERMO
After breakfast depart for Castelbuono , a small village
in the Sicilian inland visit of the Cathedral and
the Castle built by the Ventimiglia family. Proceed
to Cefalù and visit of the Cathedral. Lunch
on your own. Continue to the archaeological park of
Solunto. Proceed to Palermo. Dinner and overnight
at your hotel.
13th Day/Thursday: PALERMO
Breakfast at your hotel. In the morning visit the
Archaeological Museum and enjoy a nice walk in the
historical center of the town visiting the Martorana
Church, S. Cataldo, the Praetoria Square and the Quattro
Canti. Free time for lunch on your own. In the afternoon
visit the Catacombs, Mondello. Dinner on your own
and overnight at your hotel.
14th Day/Friday: PALERMO
Breakfast at your hotel. In the morning visit the
Palatine Chapel, the Cathedral, St. John of Eremits
and Monreale with its exquisite Cathedral and Cloister.
Lunch on your own. Time at leisure. Dinner and overnight
at your hotel
15th Day/Saturday: PALERMO
Breakfast at the hotel. End of your Tour
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