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Tour details:
1 Arrival to Catania and check-in at the hotel. Dinner and overnight.
2 Breakfast. Departure with bus for a guided visit among the merry fishermen at the Catania fish market. This is the place to discover the spirit of the Sicilian people! Lunch based on fish. Guided sightseeing in Catania. Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight
3 Breakfast. Departure with bus and guide to Etna for a splendid visit to this spectacular volcano. Stop for a taste of local delicacies incl wine, cheese and honey, all with a flavor unique to this area. Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight.
4 Breakfast. Departure with bus and guide to Caltagirone incl a visit to the famous ceramics factories. Continuation to Piazza Armerina and a guided visit to Villa Romana. Lunch at a local farm. Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight.
5 Breakfast. Departure with bus and guide to Acitrezza. Minicruise along the riviera of the Cyclops, along the cliffs of Acitrezza and on the Isolabella near Taormina. Stop for a swim and lunch on the island. Return to the hotel. Dinner and overnight.
6 Breakfast. Departure with bus and guide to Milazzo for a fantastic day at sea. Mini-cruise among the Aeolian islands and lunch in a restaurant by the sea. Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight.
7 Breakfast and departure. |
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Note:
Catania. The ancients considered it a rich and important city, and it was here that the famous legislator Caronda was born. It was one of the first cities to fall to the Romans, evidence of whose presence here can be seen in buildings such as the Theatre, the Amphitheatre, the Odeon, and a number of baths, which were built with lavic stone.
Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe and it is the element the shaped the most the eastern part of the island: his eruptions and the earthquakes it provoked, indeed, changed radically the geology of the territory around Catania in history. Inhabitants in Catania still have to deal with the ”whimsical behaviour“ of their ”neighbour“, to which they are bound by a love-hate relationship. The volcano, indeed, was positive for this territory, making it fertile, thanks to which Catania today is a thriving city.
On the slopes of the Monti Erei, this town has retained some important examples of 18th-c. Baroque. The church of Santa Maria del Monte, rebuilt in the 18th c., has a flight of 142 steps and an imposing front with a single order and, alongside it, a bell tower. Caltagirone is also renowned for the multicolored enameled ceramics made here, an art form which came alive during the period of Arab domination.
The Aeolian Islands (Isole Eolie o Lipari) have been inhabited for more than 3,000 years, in spite of volcanic activity that even now causes the earth to issue forth sulfuric belches, streams of molten lava, and hissing clouds of steam. Lipari (36 sq. km/14 sq. miles) is the largest and most developed island, Stromboli (13 sq. km/5 sq. miles) is the most distant and volcanically active, and Vulcano (21 sq. km/8 sq. miles), with its brooding, potentially volatile cone and therapeutic mud baths, is the island closest to the Sicilian "mainland."
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