Rome PALERMO package tour ( 12 days and 11 Nights )
 

Day 01 – Rome

Benvenuti a Roma! After you touch down at the airport, make your own way to your hotel. Check in and enjoy your first night in Italy.

Montecassino

Day 02 – Rome / Naples / Pompeii / Sorrento

After breakfast at your hotel, a coach bus will depart at 7:00am, taking the highway “of the sun”through the regions of Lazio and Campania, where you will see a picturesque view of the abbey of Montecassino. Upon arriving in Naples, you will go on a short panoramic walking tour, seeing sites such as the Mergellina neighborhood, castel dell’ovo, Plebiscito square, the Royal palace, Maschio Angioino, and the port. Have lunch in a restaurant en route to Pompeii and then visit the excavations of the famous roman city, destroyed by the eruption of mount Vesuvius in 79 a.D. Leaving Pompeii, you will drive along the Sorrentine coast, arriving in Sorrento for dinner and an overnight in your new hotel.

Blue Grotta
 

Day 03 – Sorrento / Capri / Sorrento

Board a boat for the island of Capri after breakfast. Depending on weather and sea conditions, you will enter the infamous blue grotta in a small rowboat. After, enjoy lunch at a local restaurant and then roam the island at your own pace. Return to the mainland for dinner and your last overnight in Sorrento.

Sorrento

Day 04 - Sorrento / Palermo ( Overnight on ferry boat )

Spend a leisurely morning eating breakfast at your hotel and then exploring Sorrento. That afternoon, depart for Naples harbor, where you will board the Tirrenia/Snav ferry to Palermo. Let the waves rock you to sleep. Please note, dinner and breakfast are not included on the boat.

Palermo

Day 05 – Palermo

Meet the rest of the participants at your hotel. Dinner. Overnight at hotel.

Palatine Chapel

Day 06 -  Palermo / Monreale /( Erice ) / Palermo

Buffet breakfast at your hotel. In the morning, departure to Monreale and enjoy the visit of the Cathedral famous for its mosaics as well as the Benedictine cloister. In the morning visit keeps on with the Sicilian Capital wich includes the Palatine Chapel in the Royal Palace, Palermo’s Cathedral as well as a panoramic city tour. Lunch at hotel.
Afternoon at leisure or possibility to participate to an optional excursion (to be paid locally. Will be operated with a minimum of participants) to Erice, small medieval village in the Trapani’s province. Dinner. Overnight at your hotel.

Agrigento Temples Val

Day 07 - Palermo / Segesta / Trapani / Agrigento

Buffet breakfast at your hotel. Departure to Segesta to visit the Doric temple surrounded by a splendid landscape.
Continue our trip and enjoy a panoramic visit of Trapani saline works. Continue to Selinunte where we will be enjoying a special lunch at a local farmhouse including an oil tasting famous in the area. After lunch, depart to Agrigento. Visit of the Valley of the Temples where we will be able to admire the best preserved temples in the whole Magna Grecia. Dinner. Overnight at hotel.

Catania

Day 08 -  Agrigento / Piazza Armerina / Ragusa (With Chocolate tasting) / Catania 

Buffet breakfast at your hotel and depart to Piazza Armerina, visit the Villa Romana del Casale famous for its more than3500 sqm meters of well preserved mosaics. After the visit departure to Ragusa. Lunch at a traditional restaurant. Afternoon visit of this wonderful baroque city and chocolate tasting. Afternoon departure to Catania. Dinner. Overnight at hotel.

Siracusa

Day 09  Catania   /Etna  ( With Lunch at a local farmhouse ) / Taormina / Catania

Buffet breakfast at hotel and meteorological conditions permitting, excursion to Mount Etna, the highest active volcano in Europe (3345 mt). The bus will bring us up to the “Rifugio Sapienza” 1800 m. Visit of the extinguished Craters of Mounts Silvestri. Wonderful variety of fauna and flora and moony landscapes can be seen on the way. The special ambient created during the centuries under nature, culture and history is inimitable all over the world. We will proceed to a farmhouse where we will taste the most special sicilian dishes. Continuation to Taormina: pretty and romantic town on the Mount Tauro (204 mt). Spare time to visit (by your own) the famous Greek Theatre with a splendid view of the Mount Etna and the Ionian sea or to do shopping and to stroll through the picturesque lanes of the city centre. Back to Catania. Dinner. Overnight at hotel.

Rifugio Sapienza

Day 10  Catania / Siracusa  ( with lunch at a local restaurant ) / Noto / Catania

Buffet breakfast at your hotel. Departure to Syracuse and enjoy a guided tour of this venerable city highlights the Archaeological Park, Greek Theater, Latomia del Paradiso and Cave of Dyonisius’ Ear. Lunch at a local restaurant.
In the afternoon continue to Noto to admire the Cathedral wich has been renovated after many years. Back to Catania. Dinner. Overnight at hotel.

Messina Cathedral

Day 11 - Catania / Messina / Cefalù  (with Lunch at local restaurant) / Palermo

Buffet breakfast at hotel and depart to Messina for a panoramic visit of the city including some beautiful views on the Straight which separates Sicily from the mainland.
Continue to Cefalù. Lunch at a local restaurant. Cefalù is a splendid fishermen’s village and seaside resort. Visit of the huge Norman Cathedral, founded in 131 by Roger II and of the Medieval Lavatory. Time at leisure to stroll through the narrow lanes of the historic centre full of shops and restaurants. Continue to Palermo. Dinner.
Overnight at hotel.

Day 12 - Palermo

Breakfast at hotel. End of our services

Click above to see details of the Hotels included in the package 
Note : We can replace above Hotels with other one with the same characteristics in the case that it becomes necessary for operative and other reasonable causes

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