Double €842 p/p
Single €1,035 p/p
based on double occupancy

2007 Departure Dates:

March: 31
April: 7-14-21-28
May: 5-12-19-26
June: 2-9-16-23-30
July: 7-14-21-28
August: 4-11-18-25
September: 1-8-15-22-29
October: 6-13-20-27

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Itinerary Day 1 Saturday PALERMO Independent arrival at the Jolly Hotel Palermo. Enjoy a welcome cocktail. Dinner and overnight in hotel. Day 2 Sunday PALERMO - SEGESTA - ERICE - TRAPANI - AGRIGENTO After a buffet breakfast, DEPART FOR Segesta to visit the Doric Temple which keeps in its stone the weight of a long history, surrounded by an unique landscape. Lunch in a local restaurant in Erice , a medieval town full of myth and history, art and environment located at 800 meters above the sea. After lunch enjoy an orientation tour of Trapani's salt-mills. Continue to Agrigento. Dinner at Jolly della Valle. After dinner enjoy an unforgettable panoramic tour of illuminated the Valley of the Temples. Overnight. Day 3 Monday AGRIGENTO - PIAZZA AMERINA - SYRACUSE After a buffet breakfast, visit the valley of Temples including the Temple of Juno, Concord, Heracles, Zeus, Castor and Pollux. Continue to Piazza Armerina and Lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch visit the worldwide famous Villa Romana del CAsale famed for its well preserved mosaics. Continue to Syracuse. Dinner and overnight. Day 4 Tuesday SYRACUSE - CATANIA After a buffet breakfast, visit of the archaeological area including the famouse Latomie of the Paradise and the Dyonisios "Ear" as well as visit of the island of Ortigia, singular treasure of the baroque style. After lunch depart for Catania and visit of the city. Time at leisure. Dinner and overnight at the Jolly hotel. Day 5 Wednesday CATANIA - Mt. ETNA - TAORMINA - MESSINA After a buffet breakfast, conditions permitting, excursion until 1800 meters, to Mount Etna the highest active volcano of Europe. Continue to Taormina: lunch at a local restaurant. In the afternoon, visit the Greek Theater and enjoy time at leisure for shopping or walking through the tiny streets. Return to Messina: dinner and overnight at the Jolly Messina situated in front of the Straight. Day 6 Thursday MESSINA-REGGIO CALABRIA-CAPO D'ORLANDO-CEFALU' - PALERMO After a buffet vbreakfast, sea conditions permitting, embark to Reggio Calabria and visit the famous "Bronzi di Riace". Drive along the Tyrrhenian coast. Stop in Capo D'Orlando for lunch. Continue to Cefalù, a pleasant resort well known for its beautiful Norman Cathedral and medieval wash-house built in the rock. Continue to Palermo. Dinner and overnight. Day 7 Friday PALERMO - MONREALE After a buffet breakfast depart to Monreale with visit to the “Duomo” (Cathedral) which is one of the most reknowned monuments in the world as well as the Benedictine Cloister, in pure Norman style. Visit the city of Palermo including the Cathedral, the Palatine Chapel in the Royal Palace, as well as a panoramic tour of the historical center. Lunch at Jolly Hotel. In the afternoon, enjoy the possibility to visit part of Palermo by your own or to participate to an optional excursion to the Catacombs, the Handcrafts village of Palermo and Mondello. Dinner and overnight at the Jolly Hotel. Day 8 Saturday PALERMO After a buffet breakfast, end of your Tour.

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Departure: Palermo
Arrival: Palermo

Sicily is directly adjacent to the region of Calabria via the Strait of Messina to the east. In Latin, Sicily is Trinacria.

The volcano Etna, situated close to Catania, is 3,320 m (10,900 ft) high, making it the tallest volcano in Europe. It is also one of the world's most active volcanoes.

The Aeolian islands to the north are administratively a part of Sicily, as are the Aegadian Islands and Pantelleria Island to the west, Ustica Island to the north-west, and the Pelagian Islands to the south-west.

Sicily has been noted for two millennia as a grain-producing territory. Oranges, olives, and wine are among its other agricultural products. The mines of the Enna and Caltanissetta district became a leading sulfur-producing area in the 19th century but have declined since the 1950s.

Sicily is well known as a region of art: many poets and writers were born here, starting from the Sicilian School in the early 13th century, which inspired much subsequent Italian poetry and created the first Italian standard.

The original inhabitants of Sicily, long absorbed into the population, were tribes known to Greek writers as the Elymians, the Sicani and the Siculi or Sicels. Of these, the last were clearly the latest to arrive on this land and were related to other Italic peoples of southern Italy. It's possible, however, that the Sicani were originally an Iberian tribe. The Elymi, too, may have distant origins outside of Italy, in the Aegean Sea area.

Sicily was colonized by Phoenicians and Punic settlers from Carthage and by Greeks, starting in the 8th Century BCE. The most important colony was established at Syracuse in 734 BC.