SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Very charming Hotels throughout the tour offering high quality services, located in the historical centres of the main sicilian towns
• Exclusively in english
• Visit of the main sicilian monuments including 3 Unesco sites
• Special menus in local restaurants especially selected to have a taste
• Sicilian typical products tasting in Ragusa ibla, in one of the most enchanting square of the sicilian cuisine

Departure Dates:

• APRIL: 10, 24
• MAY: 8, 15, 29
• JUNE: 5, 19
• JULY: 3, 17
• SEPTEMBER: 4, 11, 18, 25
• OCTOBER: 2, 9, 16, 23

Program:

1st day TUESDAY
PALERMO
Independent arrival at Grand Hotel Piazza Borsa. Accommodation. Dinner at a local restaurant. Overnight in your hotel.

2nd day WEDNESDAY
After a buffet breakfast, depart to Segesta to admire the Temple and the Theatre surrounded by a suggestive landscape. Continue to the medieval village of Erice placed on the top of a hill and take a walk through its tiny and characteristic streets. Lunch on your own. Down to Trapani for a panoramic tour of the salt windmills still working. Dinner and overnight in your Hotel.

3rd day THURSDAY
PALERMO - CEFALÙ - NEBRODI PARK - TAORMINA
After a buffet breakfast, depart to Cefalù a former fishing village, now a charming coastal town. Enjoy a walk to the city center and down main street to reach the Arab-Norman Cathedral and the medieval wash-house built in the rock. Drive through the Park of “Nebrodi” and stop at the Miraglia Forest for lunch with a typical menu. Continue to Cesarò, Randazzo and visit the Etna park from an unusual point of view - the north facing side - surrounded by beautiful landscapes. Arrival in Taormina. Accommodation, dinner and overnight at Hotel Villa Diodoro, located near historic centre of Taormina.

4th day FRIDAY
TAORMINA - ETNA (OPTIONAL) - TAORMINA
After a buffet breakfast, morning at leisure or for those who will be interested, possibility of an optional excursion to the Mount Etna, the highest active volcano in Europe. Weather conditions permitting, across fascinating landscape we will reach a height of 1800 metres, where we will enjoy a fantastic panorama of the Ionic Sea. Lunch on your own. In the afternoon visit of Taormina, the small medieval village called “the pearl of the Ionic Sea”. Enjoy time at leisure for shopping or walking through the tiny streets. Possibility to visit the Roman - Greek theatre on your own. In the late afternoon return to the Hotel. In the evening be ready for a farewell dinner in your Hotel.

5th day SATURDAY
Taormina
After a buffet breakfast, end of the Tour. 

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Mini Tour Carousel Summer 2012 from Palermo