Stimulate your intellect and your senses with our October tour of Sicily! Intriguing UNESCO Worlds Heritage sites will take your breath away. Remote mountain towns and charming seaside villages will enchant you. Sicily’s regional cuisine’s will stimulate your palate. Palermo’s open-air markets will mesmerize you. And your interaction with Sicilians will warm your heart. You’ll enjoy 4-star hotels and characteristic, family-run inns and relish typical trattorias as you discover Sicily’s 3,000 years of human history with authentic experiences, vibrant flavors, and sweet melodies that will capture your imagination.

• Enjoy three nights’ stay in bewitching Taormina
• Savor the bouquets during an Etna winery tour and tasting with expert enologist
• Admire the beauty of Siracusa and Ortigia*
• Connect to the power and majesty of Mother Nature during a Mount Etna* volcano excursion
• Put your hands in the dough during a market tour and cooking class with a Sicilian mamma
• Be stimulated by a tour of the Roman Villa of Casale in Piazza Armerina* with an archaeologist
• Amble through the piazzas of Ragusa Ibla
• Explore Valley of the Temples in Agrigento* with an archaeologist
• Discover the hidden corners of villages in Agrigento province
• Be mesmerized by Arab Norman Palermo and Monreale*
• Feel the wind in your hair during a boat excursion on the Tyrrhenian Sea
• Inhale the beauty of Trapani’s salt flats and medieval Erice

*UNESCO sites

Land only. 

13 days, 12 nights. 

Includes everything but eight meals (Includes all breakfasts, ten lunches, and seven dinners, all transportation, all entrance fees and tickets, most tips.) 

The Benefits of Traveling with Experience Sicily

• Owner-managed tour--call, and you'll speak directly to Allison Scola
• The logistics and details managed by our American office and Sicilian insiders
• Select, private and clean professional transportation
• Local, expert guides at all principal sites
• Meaningful interaction with locals
• Off-the-beaten path seaside villages and mountain towns
• Outstanding traditional cuisine
• An excellent balance of structured and free time

PRICE INCLUDES

• Group airport transfers on designated arrival and departure days
• Ground transportation
• Four-star level accommodations
• All breakfasts, nine lunches, and five dinners (all but nine meals)
• All entrance fees, tickets to entertainment, all excursions, most gratuities
• English-speaking/Italian speaking tour leader and licensed, local guides

WHERE WE STAY

• Taormina, 4-star hotel with sea views (3 nights)
• Ortigia/Siracusa, 4-star inn ( 2 nights)
• Ragusa, 4-star inn (1 night)
• Agrigento Province, Family-run Farm-stay (2 nights)
• Palermo Historic Center, 4-star hotel (2 nights)
• Castellammare del Golfo, 4-star hotel (2 nights)

ACTIVITY LEVEL

• Walking and touring historic sites, towns, and villages for a few hours each day. Paced to savor the moments. 
• Structured days with planned leisure time