FILOVACANZE TOURS

Individual Tours

• - Picking Time
• - Luxury Food and Wine ...
• - Sicily for Wine Lovers
• - Cooking Culture and Country Life
• - Sicilia Culinaria
• - Savoring Sicily
• - Walking & Cooking in Sicily
• - Exclusive Sicily
• - Archaelogical Tour

Small Groups

• - Gourmet Sicily
• - Taste of Traditions

Short Tours

• - Cooking Classes in Masseria
• - Flavors of Olive in Agrigento
• - Cooking Classes in Erice

Sicily Tour

• - Exclusive Sicilian Taste

EXCLUSIVE SICILIAN TASTE

Palermo, Monreale, Erice, Segesta, Agrigento, Ragusa, Modica, Taormina, Etna, Siracusa...

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Day 1
Arrival at the airport of Palermo and transfer to the Villa Igiea 5 stars hotel on the sea. Dinner, with the chef Rizzo, at exclusive Osteria dei Vespri, famous restaurant where some scenes of the famous Visconti’s movie The Leopard were filmed. Return in hotel and overnight stay.

Day 2
Breakfast in hotel. This morning, you will be taken to Palermo’s food market La Vucciria, typical “par excellence”, full of color and folkloric. Here you will taste typical street food such as pani ca meusa, panelle, arancini..., then you will visit Teatro Massimo, Quattro Canti, Piazza Pretoria, Cathedral, chiesa della Martorana. We recommend to have the lunch (not included) at Antica Focacceria S. Francesco the oldest restaurant in Palermo.
During the afternoon you will visit Monreale’s famous Arab-Norman Cathedral and Cloister, the pinnacle of art for this period in Sicily. Dinner, with the chef Maurizio Cascino at the restaurant La Botte in Monreale. Return in hotel and overnight stay.

3 Day
Breakfast and leaving to Segesta to visit the Greek Theatre and the Temple. Transfer to Erice, a wonderful and mysterious medieval town made famous in ancient times as the birthplace of Venus. Walking through the cobble – stoned streets of the town, smelling a variety of aromas emanating from the numerous pastry shop for which Erice is famous. We will visit the Norman Castle and the Duomo. Stopping at the world famous pastry shop by Maria Grammatico, here we will taste almond sweets, genovesi and nougat to match with Marsala wine. Lunch at the restaurant Elimo, with the chef Carmelo Tilotta: he will show us a rich Sicilian menu and will let us know some of the Sicilian cookery secrets. During the afternoon we will visit Donnafugata winery for a wine tasting and a tour in the cellars with Wiebke. Dinner in the same cellar. Overnight stay in Resort Baglio Oneto in Marsala with an amazing view on the Egadi Islands, Mozia and the salt pans.

4 Day
Breakfast and leaving to Agrigento. We will visit the magnificent Valley of the Temples, a scenery of extraordinary beauty, amongst the imposing Greek ruins, the Garden of the Kolymbetra, the Necropolis and the Archaeological Museum. Lunch at the restaurant Leon d’oro, where the owner Totò will show us the menu “At Table with Almonds”: an exciting trip through the tastes of the Sicilian cooking. Accommodation at the Dioscuri Bay Palace on the sea.
In the afternoon we will visit the charming old town centre of Agrigento: Arabian quarter of Rabato as well as the Mediaeval and Baroque monuments. Dinner on your own. After dinner we will attend a Greek style play at Stoai in Agrigento. Return in hotel and overnight stay.

5 Day
Breakfast and transfer to eastern Sicily through the Baroque, whose heritage, both for importance and for beauty, has been declared World Heritage by the UNESCO. At Modica, we will admire picturesque lanes and narrows streets, with plenty of old workshops. We will visit the Byzantine Rock Church and St. George’s Church, the only one including a nave and as good as four aisles. At the end of morning, we will visit the Antica Dolceria Bonajuto, the oldest confectionary shop of Sicily and taste the very famous chocolate of Modica. Lunch on your own. Trasfer to the Mediterraneo hotel in Ragusa. Visit of Ragusa, dinner at the exclusive Locanda Don Serafino. Return in hotel and overnight stay.

6 Day
Breakfast and transfer to Noto. We will visit the Baroque town and will taste the Granita Siciliana. Departure to Siracusa. Until the Arab conquest of 878, the city was the capital of Sicily. It was by far the most important city on the island. We will visit the Orecchio di Dionisio, the Greek Theatre, the Altare di Ierone. Lunch on your own. Accommodation in Grand hotel Villa Politi in Siracusa. In the afternoon we will visit Ortigia, one of the most interesting urban areas of Sicily. We will visit its famous Duomo, constructed over the ancient Temple of Athena. Dinner at Don Camillo. Return to the hotel and overnight stay.
7 Day
Breakfast and departure to the Etna mountain. During the tour we will admire the beautiful volcanic landscape of the biggest European volcano. We will stop in Viagrande, here we will meet Mrs Eleonora Consoli in her La Cucina del Sole (The Sun’s Kitchen). Eleonora has written several cookbooks on Sicilian gastronomy and is the unofficial expert on Sicilian cooking in the world. She will conduct a hand-on cooking class, teaching the class several classic Sicilian dishes. Our lunch will be spent with Eleonora in her home.
In the afternoon we will visit the Benanti winery: Mr. Benanti will show us the vineyard describing the organic cultivation methods, the milestone and the cellar, finally we will sample the best wines matched with local products. Transfer to Grand Hotel Timeo, on the sea in Taormina. Dinner on your own. Overnight stay.
8 Day
Breakfast in hotel. In the morning, you will be free to explore Taormina, particularly the Greek–Roman Theatre and the Corso Umberto with its luxury shops. In the afternoon leaving to the Catania airport.