Private 8 Days Food & Wine Lovers Tour of Sicily
Overview
8 Days / 7 Nights visiting Taormina, Mt. Etna, Noto, Syracuse and Palermo. Enjoy the best Sicilian Organic Food & Wine. Visit Etna Farmhouses and Wineries, Learn cooking tricks in Family Trattoria and visit colourful Street Market and taste their StreetFood.
7 Tours/Activities with Licensed Local Guide.
Accommodation options in 4*Hotels.
Overnights in Taormina, Syracuse & Palermo.
All ground Transfers in 8 seats A/C Mercedes Minivan or Mercedes Car and licensed driver, including Pick up and drop off to Airport.
24 hours coordination from arrival to departure.
Inclusions
- 7 NIGHTS IN 4*STARS HOTEL
- PRIVATE DRIVER FOR EVERY TRANSFER INCL. AIRPORT TRANSFERS
- 8 BREAKFASTS IN HOTEL, 6 LUNCHES AND 1 DINNER DURING ACTIVITIES
- ALL OTHER FOOD AND WINE TASTINGS MENTIONED IN ITINERARY
- TAORMINA LIFESTYLE GOURMET WALKING TOUR
- TAORMINA COOKING CLASS
- ETNA FOOD&WINE TOUR
- NOTO WALKING TOUR WITH LUNCH
- ORTIGIA FOOD&WINE TOUR
- SYRACUSE WINERIES TOUR WITH LUNCH
- PALERMO STREETFOOD TOUR
- 2x Dinner
- 5x Lunch
- Accommodation included: 7 nights
What to expect
Day 1: Arrival Day: Taormina Lifestyle, Gourmet & Walking Tour
Pass By: Taormina, Taormina, Province of Messina, Sicily
Upon arrival at Catania airport be greeted by your driver, who will bring you to your charming hotel in Taormina. At 18.30 meet Your Local Licensed Guide in the city centre and take an easy walk in Taormina city center with your local guide. Discover the main attractions of the town, its soul and lifestyle, the best places for traditional pastries, ice cream, coffee, for food and handicraft shopping and anything else that might be interesting for you. Pass the most important monuments and highlights of Taormina listening the stories of your guide. Have three foodie stops. First will be in seafood restaurant, second in typical bottega for cheeses, salumi, bread, olives and wine tasting. And second in small pastry bar for tasting of typical sicilian sweets and liquors. After tour enjoy free evening in sparkling Taormina. Overnight in Taormina
Meals included:
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Accommodation included: Overnight in Centrally located 4 Stars hotel
Day 2: Taormina Cooking Class & Lunch in Family Trattoria
Pass By: Taormina, Taormina, Province of Messina, Sicily
After breakfast start your foodie experienceat 10.00am from the city center with the local guide/chef. Have a visit of Taormina’s Food Market, where local farmers, fishermen and butchers sell their fresh goods. Select products for your class and with personal guidance from your chef learn culinary secrets of cooking homemade bread, pasta, fish and vegetables dishes in a traditional Sicilian style. While eating what Your own hands made, enjoy the taste of local wines. After tour free afternoon and evening in Taormina to relax on picturesque beaches or hang out on your own. Overnight in Taormina
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Accommodation included: Overnight in centrally located 4 Stars hotel
Day 3: Etna Countryside Food & Wine Lovers Tour
Pass By: Mount Etna, 95030 Catania, Sicily Italy
After breakfast start your “out of beaten path” trip to Mt. Etna Villages with a pick-up from your hotel at 10.00am by local foodie guide. Drive through small typical Etna villages admiring authentic lava stone houses, orange, lemon, olive and almond trees plantations, while listening to charming stories about Sicilian culture, traditions and food. Proceed up until 1000 meters above sea level and discover the breathtaking views of volcanic land. Have a first stop, which is an antique family run winery, where after guided visit of cellars, try volcanic wines with organic etna appetizers admiring a breath-taking view on Taormina Coast. Continue your gastronomic experience to an authentic picturesque farmhouse and enjoy the lunch with seasonal antipasti, homemade pasta, and pastries. Drop off to Taormina and free time. Overnight in Taormina
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Accommodation included: Overnight in centrally located 4 Stars hotel
Day 4: Noto Walking Tour & Fish Lunch in Marzamemi & Transfer to Syracuse
Pass By: Noto, Noto, Province of Syracuse, Sicily
After breakfast meet your private driver in tfront of Your hotel at 10.00am and move to magnificent Noto. Enjoy an easy walk with local guide in town of UNESCO heritage – a jewel of baroque. While walking taste a famous Modica chocolate and sicilian ice-cream with extraordinary taste. After tour move towards Marzamemi an astonishing typical Sicilian fisherman's village on the seaside to have Your sea lunch in a family trattoria. Be transferred to your charming hotel in Syracuse and enjoy this romantic town at night. Overnight in Syracuse
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Accommodation included: Overnight in centrally located 4 stars hotel
Day 5: Ortigia Food & Wine Walking Tour
Pass By: Syracuse, Syracuse, Province of Syracuse, Sicily
Meet your foodie local guide when it starts to cool down at 18.30 in Siracusa city centre. Enjoy a walking tour of Ortigia, Syracuse old town, and taste fresh fish, typical Sicilian appetizers, homemade Sicilian pastries, fragrant wines and liquors in three different food venues. Eat and drink as locals do. During the tour your guide will share with you a lot about history, culture, lifestyle and gastronomy of the area while passing the most important monuments and little hidden gems of the town. Tour will finish in the heart of Ortigia so after you can still enjoy the town at night. Overnight in Syracuse
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Accommodation included: Overnight in centrally located 4 stars hotel
Day 6: Syracuse Winery Tour with Light Lunch & Transfer to Palermo
Pass By: Syracuse, Syracuse, Province of Syracuse, Sicily
After breakfast be picked by your private driver at 10.00 am in front of Your hotel and start the day with visit of ancient Winery located in Syracuse countryside and wonderfully structured as a castle. Will be welcomed by the owner, have a guided visit of the cellars and the old millstone. Enjoy a light lunch with local organic products and wine tasting in magnificent courtyard. Appreciate the taste of wines produced in this Syracuse area and discover their difference with Etna wines. After lunch continue to drive around 2, 5 hours to reach colorful Palermo. Time to relax and free evening. Overnight in Palermo
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Accommodation included: Overnight in centrally located 4 stars hotel
Day 7: Palermo StreetFood Walking Tour
Pass By: Palermo, Palermo, Province of Palermo, Sicily
On this day sample the best of Sicilian streetfood during a 3 hours Walking tour of Palermo. Meet the foodie Guide at 10.30am in Palermo city centre. This food tour explores the fascinating culinary world of Sicily’s capital and includes visit of the famous and bustling Vucciria and Mercato del Capo outdoor markets, tasting five different Sicilian treats along the way — including ‘panelle’ (chickpea fritters) and ‘arancini’ (deep-fried rice balls). Be ready to discover Authentic Palermitan poor area. Pass through Palermo old town and most important highlights listening the stories of your guide. After tour enjoy free evening in Palermo. Overnight in Palermo
Meals included:
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Accommodation included: Overnight in centrally located 4 stars hotel
Day 8: Departure day from Palermo
Pass By: Palermo, Palermo, Province of Palermo, Sicily
Breakfast in hotel. Pick up in hotel by your Driver and transfer to Palermo airport according to your flight departure time.
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Additional information
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Your Local Operator will contact You by Email within 24 hours after booking to discuss all the details
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Ticket delivery
Cancellation
If you cancel between 3 and 6 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is a 50 percent cancellation fee.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
We did a 9-day private Food and Wine tour of parts of Sicily with Sicily Activies and absolutely loved the tour. From my first contact with Alex at Sicily Activies until our final departure from Palermo everything was very well planned and executed with precision. When ever I contacted Alex wit...
We did a 9-day private Food and Wine tour of parts of Sicily with Sicily Activies and absolutely loved the tour. From my first contact with Alex at Sicily Activies until our final departure from Palermo everything was very well planned and executed with precision. When ever I contacted Alex with questions, I always had an answer the next morning in my email! Once on the tour, Alex was always reachable by WhatsAP for the few questions that I had. This tour was a food and wine tour, and we had plenty of both!! In fact, several nights we did not even eat dinner because we were so fully from the food and wine provided during the various food and wine stops. The wineries that we went to were excellent and were great stops. Our suitcases were loaded with Sicilian wine on our way home! The food tasting highlighted Sicilian Street food and loved every tasting. All were quite different and featured foods of that region of Sicily. The three hotels that Alex arranged were all top notch and we enjoyed each of them. They were well located and were within easy walking distance of many of the major attractions we were interested in seeing. All the driver/guides were excellent and were licensed guides. We always felt safe in the van with their driving and let me assure you the drivers are crazy in Sicily! However, I would like to a special shout out to Antonio as we probably enjoyed him the most! He was lots of fun and loved to talk about Sicily. When we got ready to depart from Palermo, I thought Alex had arranged too much time at the airport but after getting there it was absolute kayos and we needed almost all the allotted time to catch our flight home. One word of caution about both airport in Catina, where we landed and the airport at Palermo where we departed is that they do not use jetways and it caused some difficulty with our carryon baggage. In summary, I would do this tour again in a heartbeat as the pace was exactly right for us and the food and wine were fantastic. I also cannot say enough great thing about how responsive Alex was to our questions!A wonderful trip was fully planned and mostly pre-paid for our group of 11, so it was very easy to just sit back and enjoy our time away. Every detail of the trip ran smoothly and we loved our food and walking tours. We had fun and informative guides whose English was very good and the restaurant...
A wonderful trip was fully planned and mostly pre-paid for our group of 11, so it was very easy to just sit back and enjoy our time away. Every detail of the trip ran smoothly and we loved our food and walking tours. We had fun and informative guides whose English was very good and the restaurants we visited with them were an excellent showcasing of Sicilian cuisine. I will be recommending Sicily Activities to all of our friends who are planning to visit this beautiful corner of the world.This was a great tour. We visited Etna, a winery nearby, a Godfather tour, beautiful Taormina, Ortigia near Syracuse, Villa Romana mosaics, Agrigento temples and Palermo. They planned wonderful food and wine events at beautiful restaurants. The hotels they chose were exceptional. Our gu...
This was a great tour. We visited Etna, a winery nearby, a Godfather tour, beautiful Taormina, Ortigia near Syracuse, Villa Romana mosaics, Agrigento temples and Palermo. They planned wonderful food and wine events at beautiful restaurants. The hotels they chose were exceptional. Our guides, Antonio, Valerio and Carlos were informative and entertaining. There were local guides as well. Alex, from Sicily Activities, regularly kept in touch with us to make sure that everything was going fine. We loved Sicily and we loved our tour. Would do it again without hesitation.We were two couples. Sicily Activities was fantastic arranging for our airport pickups, ground transportation and all of our tours. All the drivers were always on time as were the tour guides. Our drivers were extremely courteous and professional. The tour guides were extremely knowledgeable and ...
We were two couples. Sicily Activities was fantastic arranging for our airport pickups, ground transportation and all of our tours. All the drivers were always on time as were the tour guides. Our drivers were extremely courteous and professional. The tour guides were extremely knowledgeable and personable. Everyone’s English was very good. Alex was always available and helpful via email and text. Very comforting knowing someone was always there to assist us. We would recommend them without hesitation.This tour was fabulous. Massimo took care of every detail and was in constant contact with us. The hotels, guides, and food was top notch. Sicily had so much to offer and Massimo arranged it so that we saw all the highlights, every day was a new adventure. We were six travelers and everyone ...
This tour was fabulous. Massimo took care of every detail and was in constant contact with us. The hotels, guides, and food was top notch. Sicily had so much to offer and Massimo arranged it so that we saw all the highlights, every day was a new adventure. We were six travelers and everyone had a great time. Highly recommend this tour company.Sicily Activities helped us organise a fantastic vacation in Sicily. Their suggestions and flexibility was a key to making this one of our most memorable vacations. They catered to some last minute changes we needed to make and made sure aspects of our vacation went smoothly.
Sicily Activities helped us organise a fantastic vacation in Sicily. Their suggestions and flexibility was a key to making this one of our most memorable vacations. They catered to some last minute changes we needed to make and made sure aspects of our vacation went smoothly.