Sicily for Food & Wine Lovers

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Discover Sicilian culture through its rich cuisine and colorful streetfood. Taste the best Sicilian wines and learn the secrets of its producing. Visit farmhouses to find organic local products: olives, cheeses, tomatoes and more. Learn cooking tricks in typical Sicilian family trattoria. Get an authentic lifestyle experience and feel like you’ve live...
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Overview

Trip type
Private Guided
Lodging level
Standard - 3 star
Physical level
Easy
Trip pace
Full schedule

Highlights

    • Discover Sicilian culture through its rich cuisine and colorful streetfood.
    • Taste the best Sicilian wines and learn the secrets of its producing.
    • Visit farmhouses to find organic local products: olives, cheeses, tomatoes and more.
    • Learn cooking tricks in typical Sicilian family trattoria.
    • Get an authentic lifestyle experience and feel like you’ve lived in Sicily the whole life.

What's this trip about?

    Discover Sicilian culture through its rich cuisine and colorful streetfood. Taste the best Sicilian wines and learn the secrets of its producing. Visit farmhouses to find organic local products: olives, cheeses, tomatoes and more. Learn cooking tricks in typical Sicilian family trattoria. Get an authentic lifestyle experience and feel like you’ve lived in Sicily the whole life.

Details

Itinerary focusClassic Highlights
Group sizeIntimate group - 12 max
Age rangeNo age restrictions
Flights and transportN/A
Start CityTaormina
End CityPalermo

Travel Themes

  • Culinary & Wine
  • Cultural

Destinations

  • Europe
  • Italy

Attractions

  • Mount Etna
  • Sicily

Activities

  • Cooking
  • Culture
  • Historic sightseeing
  • History
  • Relaxing Retreat
  • Wine Tasting

Trip includes

    • Private driver for every transfer incl. airport transfers
    • Taormina Gourmet Walking Tour
    • Taormina Cooking Class
    • Etna Food&Wine Tour
    • Noto Walking Tour with Lunch
    • Ortigia Food&Wine Tour
    • Syracuse Winery Tour with Lunch
    • Palermo Streetfood Walking Tour

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Itinerary

DAY 1 TAORMINA LIFESTYLE, GOURMET & WALKING TOUR

Upon arrival at Catania airport be greeted by your private driver, who will bring you to your charming hotel in Taormina. Once you are ready, take an easy walk in Taormina city center with your local guide who will meet you in the lobby. Discover the main attractions ...

DAY 2 TAORMINA COOKING CLASS AND LUNCH IN FAMILY TRATTORIA

After breakfast start your foodie experience 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...

DAY 3 ETNA COUNTRYSIDE FOOD&WINE LOVERS TOUR

After breakfast start your “out of beaten path” trip to Mt. Etna with a pick-up from your hotel 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...

DAY 4 NOTO WALKING TOUR WITH LUNCH AND TRANSFER TO SYRACUSE

After breakfast meet your private driver in the lobby 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. Afte...

DAY 5 ORTIGIA FOOD&WINE WALKING TOUR

Meet your foodie local guide when it starts to cool down. 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 loc...

DAY 6 SYRACUSE WINERY TOUR AND TRANSFER TO PALERMO

After breakfast be picked by your private driver 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 lig...

DAY 7 PALERMO STREETFOOD WALKING TOUR

On this day sample the best of Sicilian streetfood during a 3 hours Walking tour of Palermo. This food tour, led by a local expert guide, explores the fascinating culinary world of Sicily’s capital and includes visit of the famous and bustling Vucciria and Mercato del...

DAY 8 – DEPARTURE

Breakfast and transfer to Palermo airport

DAY 1 TAORMINA LIFESTYLE, GOURMET & WALKING TOUR Upon arrival at Catania airport be greeted by your private driver, who will bring you to your charming hotel in Taormina. Once you are ready, take an easy walk in Tao...

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Dates & Availability

Price From $2,353
Price per day$294
Last Updated: 7/24/2023

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The total tour cost includes the tour price (regular or promotional) and the compulsory local payment. The promotional price is subject to change. Check directly with the operator for the latest price offer. The tour operator requires you to pay only the tour price to purchase your travel. The compulsory local payment will be paid when you join the trip. All prices are based on double, twin or triple share occupancy. Solo passengers will be accommodated in a double, twin or triple room according to availability with a passenger(s) of the same gender. Single supplement only needs to be paid if the passenger does not want to share and requests their own room. Discounts can only be applied at the time of booking and cannot be added at a later date, regardless of any changes made to the original booking.

Prices may vary due to local taxes and trip seasonality. Click "Request Info" to inquire directly with the tour operator for the final trip price.

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Fantastic way to see Sicily!

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Sicily Activities

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Sicily Activities Travel Style

Sicily Activities provides and operates two types of Tours with different Travel Styles:

1. Small Group Tours of Sicily
Why it’s completely stress-free? Sicily Activites team guarantees a comfortable and pleasant travel as all the organizational questions is their responsibility. Their travel experts will provide you with 24 hours support before, during and after your travel. Their departures are guaranteed every week and never cancelled.
Every tour includes private airport pick up and drop off together with comfort moving along the island on new 8 seats Mercedes Minivans. Their guides are highly qualified and know how to catch your attention with funny stories and interesting facts about every destination. You’ll get the best food and wine treats from known local suppliers and get to know the people behind the scenes.
The groups are always limited to maximum 8 travelers to guarantee the highest attention to every guest and every detail and to create a friendly cosy atmosphere inside the group.
Semi bespoke tour options are also available on request. Their would be happy to extend your stay with some extra nights before or after the Tour and provide you with any desirable Day Tours to see the places that are not included in initial Itinerary.
- A very small group limited to 8 guests
- 4 stars hotels in best Sicilian towns
- Guaranteed departures every week
- The whole trip on new Mercedes minivan
- No luggage and age restrictions

2. Private Bespoke Tours of Sicily
Every bespoke Itineraries are exclusively designed for every special trip and aim to satisfy the most demanding guests from all around the world. And moreover to surprise them!
Whatever your dream is travelling by traditional vespa or either big limousine, painting together with Sicilian artist, tasting fragrant wine or cooking in Sicilian castle, they can make it for you…with passion, love and experience they earned, having long insider access to secret authentic places and creative local friends. Sicily Activities travel experts will carefully design your personalised Itinerary listening you attentively and giving you their best insider advice.
- Highly customised to address your dreams
- Departure dates that up to you
- Local Guest’s Ambassador at your service
- Handpicked boutique hotels
- Attention to details and personal approach

Who Will Enjoy Traveling With Sicily Activities?

- All ages, comfort and stress free travelers
Even if there are no age limits, they are most popular among older active tourists, who like comfort and stress free traveling with right balance of activities and free time, with handpicked restaurants and accommodations.

- Culture and food lovers
There are also no limits in offered travel themes, including active, family and adventure travel, but 80% percent of Sicily Activities’s guests are culture and food lovers. In every Sicilian town Sicily Activities works just with best local licensed guides who are focused on history, culture, traditions and lifestyle of their hometowns. In a black book of company there is aslo a great selection of restaurants, bars, farmhouses and wineries, which are able to satisfy the tastes of the most discerning guests.

- Surpise and WoW seekers
If you like to travel in style, love authentic design things, small boutique hotels and unexpected emotions, Sicily Activities is a right choice. They often include surprises, that you don’t expect, such as an aperitif in their favorite panoramic bar, ceramic souvenir from local artist, tickets to concert or an additional activitity.

- Budget flexible
Wide ranges of price options are available from mid to upper budget category. Exceptional and trusting relationship with partners, including hotels, restaurants, car companies and guides, ensures preferential treatment for guests and high quality of service still keeping competitive rates.

Why Choose a Tour With Sicily Activities?

Experience & Expertise
All members of Sicily Activities team have a long experience in the Italian travel industry, and deep insight that comes from regular on-site visits and personal connections with suppliers.

No-stress Planning/Expert trip designers
Just tell them as more as possible about your dream: destinations, dates, style of accommodation, interests and other secret ingredients. Their expert trip designers will carefully plan your personalised Itinerary listening you attentively and giving you their best insider advice. Response time is always within one day. The design and detailed trip’s brochure are always free of charge.

Funny and friendly guides
Sicily Activities is proud of their own team of guides, who work exclusively with them. On every particular cutural site the company has strong connections with partners-guides with deep insight to places and the themes. All of guides are true locals, with long experience inside and outside of Sicily.

24/7 Customer Service
Sicily Activities team is always on line by phone, email or whatsapp before, during and after the trip. If it rains and the driver should wait for the guests, he will. If the airport lost the guests’ luggage, they will find it and return to hotel. If the guest needs a doctor or any other special assistance during the trip, they take on responsibility to help as much as possible.

Risk free booking and cancellation policy
Sicily Activities is a privately-held, debt-free company with liability insurance. 20% prepayment is required to confirm the booking and deposited exclusively for trip needs. Full refund is guaranteed one month prior to arrival and free rescheduling is possible 7 days prior to arrival. Bookings with flexible and open dates are optional.

Sustainability focus
Company constantly promotes sustainability as a primary focus of their business practice. All of their guides are true locals who are young and passionate about Sicily. Most of their partners are family-run businesses producing original and organic local products. The cars they use are modern and are constantly checked to ensure the lowest ecological impact. Sicily Activities invests in, and supports, the local tourism market while trying to maintain the best traditions of Sicily.

From Sicily Activities

The foundational concept of Sicily Activities was to create something special – something beyond the classic idea of a typical tour operator. The main idea was to provide exceptional luxury service to visitors while also offering affordable prices. “Luxury” in this case is not simply providing elevated services such as priority entrances, expensive cars, and professionally-dressed drivers, it is more about carefully responding to our guests’ requests and pay attention to details.

Sicily Activities aims to provide a superior personalized approach for every guest – to anticipate the guest’s needs and make them feel like they are truly home away from home. This ideology became the commitment of every member of the Sicily Activities team. Each member, from drivers to travel designers, are responsible for creating a dream vacation for each of our guests.
We always engage our guests to get to know them and to feel what they like and dislike before offering them the first Itinerary or any travel ideas around the island. With some guests we only need two or three emails to finalize the perfect itinerary, although with more discerning clients we can talk for months leading up to their arrival.

Every guest and every approach is different, but it’s always a pleasure when we become friends even before we meet each other face-to-face in Sicily. The greatest satisfaction, though, comes later when we get the long emails with their feedback, photos, videos, and their gratitude and enthusiasm to come back to Sicily soon. That’s the real reward!

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Logistics

What's excluded

    • Entrance fees to monuments
    • City tax to be paid in hotel
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Meals Included
  • 8 breakfasts in hotel, 6 lunches and 1 dinner during activities.
  • All other food and wine tastings mentioned in itinerary
Age Requirements
No age restrictions
Additional Information
Trip ID
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