Sicilian Highlights
Best Sicilian Highlights tour in 6 Nights / 7 Days
6 Nights / 7 Days
New Travel Services, the best organizations for your tours, excursions and transfer in Sicily, offers you a new, exciting tour throught the Sicilian highlights.
With this tour, lasting 7 Days with 6 overNights stays, you will discover the west side of Sicily, Palermo, the capital and the sourrounding sites, with ancient castle, beautiful mountains, and the Trapani province, between art, see, and history. A perfect solution to discover the arabian-normans heritage of ancient dominations, that Unesco declared recently world heritage site.
Day 1: Palermo
The first Day 1, our driver will pick you up at Palermo airport and will bring you to the hotel, where you can spend your day of leisure, and where you can have Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 2: Palermo / Monreale
The second day we will start our tour of Palermo. You can see per our drivers suggestion, by walk alone, or with a local guide suggested, the Quattro Canti (the four corners - a historical point of interest where the 2 main streets of Palermo meet), the Pretoria Fountain, better known as the "fountain of shame", and at our suggestion the Norman Cathedral and the Royal Palace which adorn the historic center of Palermo.
We will then drive to Monreale.
Afternoon at leisure for shopping or the possibility of an optional tour of the Catacombs, or we will drive you to Mount Pellegrino and Mondello, a beautiful caraibbean beach.
In Palermo you can have Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3: Segesta / Selinunte
The tirth day, Our destination is the beautiful province of Trapani. After breakfast, After a scenic drive uphill and across the countryside, we reach Segesta. You'll visit at our suggestion or with a suggested local guide the beautiful Temple built in 430 BC, perfectly preserved and in Doric style. The 36 columns are almost completely intact, their gloriously mellow golden-tinged limestone flattered by a smooth finish.
After break for lunch, on board of our luxury cars we go straight to the medieval town of Erice, a small but characteristical town, where we will visit the Castello di Venere, built in the 12C, which is situated on the very tip of the mountain, looking out over the sea and the plain below. Although the present building is Norman the site itself has an even more ancient history. Indeed it was once occupied by a temple dedicated to Venus Erycina.
Afterwards, we stop at a pastry shop to taste the famous marzipan . We then visit the Salt Way Road near Trapani, where the ancient tradition of harvesting salt from the sea is still practiced.
A natural reserve with a natural house for birds, with magical sunsets of red sun blue waters and white salts
At the end of this day, we Return to the hotel in Palermo, for a pleasent Dinner and a quite, overnight stay.
Day 4: Castelbuono / Cefalù
the fourth day, we will discover the green and blue side of Palermo area, After breakfast we will drive to the medieval town of Castelbuono , a quite center on the Madonie Mounts where you can visit by yourself the medieval village and castle, with its splendid wiew.
After a tasteful lunch with sicilian homemade products, we Depart for Cefalù, founded in the 4th century B.C. The name derives from the Greek word Kephale, which means headland, because of the shape of the circular promontory where the ancient Greek colony was founded, with its medieval pebble-stone streets and outstanding Arab-Norman cathedral with ist splendid exemple of mosaics.
We will back to Palermo, for the Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 5: Corleone / Bosco della Ficuzza
The fifth day, after breakfast we will reach Corleone, built 3000 years ago by the Sikelian. Corleone is a rural town known as the city of a hundred churches, built between two rocky outcrops, famous for the Sicilian mafia and mafia bosses, the birthplace of the real Don Corleone, and where reality and fiction come together in the famous Francis Ford Coppola saga.
Not so far is a natural reserve, we will visit the Bosco of Ficuzza, in the beautiful nature reserve about 40 Km from Palermo for a visit to the Royal Hunting Dwelling of Ferdinand III° of Bourbon.
Then we will back to Palermo.The last day, After breakfast the New Travel Services car will transfer you from your hotel to Palermo airport.
Travel comfortably in our cars, listening to music or enjoying the panorama during the journey.
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Day 6: Caccamo - XII° century Castle
Caccamo - XII° century Castle. After breakfast we will depart for Caccamo, a picturesque medieval town perched on a spur dominating the valley where you can enjoy a panoramic wiew in front of the sea, in the middle of a nice valley. Here we can admire the well-preserved Castle from the XII° century, and taste some of local products .
After Break for lunch, we Return to Palermo and the rest of the day at leisure.
Day 7: Palermo
The last day, After breakfast the New Travel Services car will transfer you from your hotel to Palermo airport.
Travel comfortably in our cars, listening to music or enjoying the panorama during the journey.
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Services
- Liability insurance- Guide
Important Notes and / or conditions of delivery
Tour Dates:
Private tour. Departures every Friday from Catania and every Monday from Palermo.
The tour can be also purchased as private with daily departures.
Price Included:
- Touring by air-conditioned deluxe motor coach, van or limo
- English-French and Spanish speaking Driver
- Local guides are provided in Palermo, Monreale, and Cefalu
Price Not Included:
- Cooking lesson
- Airfare
- Meals
- Optional trip insurance
- Transfers from airport to Palermo or Catania Hotel
- Fees to the archeological area or monuments
- Tips to local guides, motor coach driver or driver/escort
All not specified in "Price included"