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TOUR JOLLY SUMMER 2011
1st day SATURDAY
PALERMO
Independent arrival at Hotel Principe di Villafranca in Palermo. Enjoy a welcome cocktail. Dinner and overnight in your hotel.
2nd day SUNDAY
PALERMO-CEFALU-CAPO D’ORLANDO – TAORMINA – CATANIA
After a buffet breakfast, depart to Cefalu, 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”, founded in 400BC and beautifully located overlooking the sea and the peak of Mount Etna. Enjoy time at leisure to shop for handmade lace, coral jewels, ceramics, home-made sweets, and preserves down “Corso Umberto” or simply walk through the tiny streets. Possibility to visit the fascinating Roman – Greek theatre. Proceed to Catania. Accommodation, dinner, and overnight at the Hotel Katane Palace.
3rd day MONDAY
CATANIA – MONTE ETNA with lunch in a farmhouse – CATANIA
After a buffet breakfast, weather permitting, excursion to Mount Etna, the highest active volcano in Europe. Across fascinating landscapes, we will reach a height of 1.5 miles, 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, the town known for its original baroque style and for its streets built with black lava stone from Mount Etna. Walking tour through Via Etnea, the Baroque street “Via Crociferi”, Piazza Duomo with the Cathedral and the “Liotru” statue, symbol of the sity, the roman Amphitheatre, the Opera House (external visit), the University, and the noble Palace of Biscari (external visit). Dinner and overnight in your hotel.
4th day TUESDAY
CATANIA – SIRACUSA – NOTO – MODICA – RAGUSA with Sicilian typical products tasting
After a buffet breakfast, depart toSyracuse to visit the most beautiful Greek colony of Sicily. Visit of the archaeological area including the famous Latomie of the Paraise, the Greek Theatre, the Roman Amphitheatre and the Dyonisios “Ear”. Visit the island of Ortigia, the small baroqueold city center of Siracusa, built by the Aragonians: here you can admire the Cathedral and the “Fontana Aretuse”. 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 Modica, one of the most picturesque cities of all Sicily, rich of important churches such as San Giorgio and San Pietro, and panoramic tour. Continue to Ragusa, a city that is divided into two parts: the upper part built after the earthquake in 1693, and the lower part that is called Ragusa Ibla, one of the most important testimony of the Baroque architecture. Enjoy a tasting 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.
5th day 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: it is the richest, largest and most complex collection of late Roman mosaics in the world. Lunch will be held at a local restaurant. Continue to Agrigento: visit of the Valley of the Temples including the Temple of Juno, Concord, Heracles, Zeus, Castor & Pollux that represent the most beautiful example of the Greek Civilization in Sicily. Dinner at Hotel Della Vale. After dinner enjoy an unforgettable panoramic tour of the Valley of the Temples illuminated. Overnight in Agrigento.
6th day THURSDAY
AGRIGENTO – SELINUNTE with lunch in a famous farmhouse – SEGESTA – PALERMO
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 which keeps in its stones the weight of a long history, surrounded by a unique landscape. Proceed to Palermo. Accommodation, dinner, and overnight at Hotel Principe di Villafranca.
7th day FRIDAY
PALERMO – MONREALE – (ERICE OPTIONAL) – 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 (the “Quattro Canti”, the Opera House, the Pretoria Square). We will continue to Monreale to admire the Cathedral with its splendid 12th century mosaics and the cloister of the Benedictines monastery with Moorish architecture. Lunch in your Hotel. Afternoon at leisure or optional excursion to Erice, a medieval town full of myth, history and art which sits on top of Mt. Erice, overlooking the city Trapani and the Egadi Islands. Panoramic tour of the salt-woks of Trapani. Dinner and overnight in your hotel.
8th day SATURDAY
PALERMO
After a buffet breakfast, end of Tour.
This tour operates EVERY SATURDAY from APRIL 02 to OCTOBER 29, 2011 (Last Departure) |
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