Day 1, Saturday: Palermo
Independent arrival at Hotel Principe di Villafranca or similar in Palermo. Enjoy a welcome cocktail. Dinner and overnight in your hotel. (D,O)

Day 2, Sunday: Palermo - Cefalu - Capo D'Orlando - Taormina - Catania
After a buffet breakfast, depart to Cefalů, 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”. Enjoy time at leisure. Possibility to visit the fascinating Roman - Greek theatre. Proceed to Catania. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at the Hotel Excelsior Grand’ Hotel or similar. (B,D,O)

Day 3, Monday: Catania - Monte Etna
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 meters, 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. Dinner and overnight in your Hotel. (B,L,D,O)

Day 4, Tuesday: Catania - Siracusa - Noto - Modica - Ragusa
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 center 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 Ragusa, 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 or similar. (B,L,D,O)

Day 5, Wednesday: Ragusa - Caltagirone - Piazza Armerina - Agrigento
After 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, lunch in a local restaurant. Continue to Agrigento. Dinner at Hotel Della Valle or similar. After dinner enjoy an unforgettable panoramic tour of the Valley of the Temples illuminated. Overnight in Agrigento. (B,L,D,O)

Day 6, Thursday: Agrigento - Selinunte
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 surrounded by a unique landscape. Proceed to Palermo. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at Hotel Principe di Villafranca or similar. (B,L,D,O)

Day 7, Friday: Palermo - Monreale - 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. We will continue to Monreale to admire the Cathedral with its splendid 12th century
mosaics and the cloister of the Benedictines monastery. Lunch in your Hotel. Afternoon at leisure or optional
excursion to Erice. Dinner and overnight in your Hotel. (B,L,D,O)

Day 8, Saturday: Palermo
After a buffet breakfast end of tour. (B)

B=Breakfast; D=Dinner; O=Overnight                                  vitsas