Palermo • Sicily • Cefalu • Messina • Taormina • Catania • Syracuse
10 Days - Our prices include airfare from your hometown and exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels everywhere
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Trip Includes
- A Catholic priest will be with the group to celebrate Mass. Daily Mass is available.
- Round-trip airfare from your hometown connecting to a gateway city to fly overseas is included.
- Airport Taxes, Security Fees, and Fuel Surcharges!
- Exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels in downtown areas.
- All breakfasts and all dinners. Wine is included with all dinners.
- Transportation with luxury bus.
- All entrance fees to all the sites.
- All tips to everyone involved in the tour.
- The tour fees for our guides. Our tour guides are well educated, caring, and professional. Most of them have their PhD's in Church history, archeology, philosophy, languages, or Theology.
- Luggage handling. Please pack light, one piece of luggage and one carry-on.
- If you are traveling alone and you allow us to find you a roommate, you don't have to pay the $900 single supplement. If you wish to have your own room and you are not open to the idea of rooming with another passenger, then $900 is what you pay for single supplement fee.
- Dress casually all throughout the trip. Shoulders and knees should be covered when visiting Basilicas or churches.
- A wheelchair can be provided for those passengers who cannot walk, with prior notice at registration for $150. A traveling companion has to push the wheelchair throughout the trip.
- At the time of registration, as a part of the total balance, a non-refundable $500 deposit (hotel and airfare deposit) is due in the form of a check. For example, if your trip costs $3,700, when you sign up and you pay the $500 deposit, your balance would be $3,200 and is due 4 months before departure date. If you sign up after the final payment due date or at the last minute, you must overnight the entire cost of the trip immediately.
Trip Does Not Include
- Lunch
- Insurance ~ The total trip cost is non-refundable, so we recommend trip insurance to protect your investment.
Trip Itinerary
June 13: Depart from the USA on your flight to Palermo, Italy.
June 14: Arrival in Palermo. Get acquainted with the ancient city of Palermo by taking a bus tour that includes a Phoenician-Carthaginian cemetery, Roman houses, Norman palaces, and Baroque churches. Check-in to your hotel, have time to rest before dinner and overnight in Palermo.
June 15: Today we will take an excursion to the countryside in western Sicily to tour a vineyard, have winetasting, and enjoy a cooking class for dinner. Overnight in Palermo.
June 16: Today we will get an early start so we can enjoy a full day in the beautiful town of Cefalu. Your tour will include the cathedral and abbey; the ruins of the Temple of Diana; the charming medieval streets and buildings; and quaint restaurants. After lunch go shopping, explore the city, or go to the beach. Enjoy a dinner and overnight in Cefalu.
June 17:After breakfast depart from Cefalu. Enjoy a scenic coastal drive with a brief stop in Messina for lunch. Visit a winery for an afternoon winetasting. Upon arrival in the incredible city of Taormina, considered by many the most beautiful city of Italy we will have a brief tour followed by time to explore the city at leisure. Dinner and overnight in Catania.
June 18: Enjoy a leisurely start to the day. After lunch we will meet our chef who will guide us as we shop in the markets. This is followed by a cooking class using the fresh ingredients as we make dinner. Overnight in Catania.
June 19: Today we visit Catania. Some sights to enjoy are the Piazza Duomo ~ Elephant Fountain, walk the famous Via Crociferi and the Via Etnea, an elegant street lined with Baroque-style buildings and shops that crosses the city from Piazza Duomo to Piazza Stesicoro where you can see the Vincenzo Bellini Monument, and the imposing Roman Amphitheater. Stop at a local winery for winetasting. Return for dinner and overnight in Catania.
June 20: Today we visit Syracuse: tour the archaeological area and the famous Greek theater. Visit to the Duomo (Cathedral). The building contains influences from various cultures within its wall: Greek, Byzantine, Arabic. Return for dinner and overnight in Catania.
June 21: Today we will see the beautiful Mt Etna. It is Sicily’s greatest natural attraction, and also its highest mountain. To the ancient Greeks, Mount Etna was the realm of Vulcan, god of fire, and the home of the one-eyed monster known as the Cyclops. At approximately 3,350 meters, it is Europe's highest active volcano. After a day visiting the volcano we will visit a local winery for a tour followed by a cooking class for dinner with winetasting then return for our overnight in Catania.
June 22:Private bus to Catania airport and departure from Italy back to USA.
Please note: We do our best to ensure that all sites listed in this itinerary will be seen. However, due to scheduling conflicts, or other circumstances beyond our control, sites may be visited on a different day than listed. If this happens it will also necessitate a change in the restaurant for dinner. However, we will never sacrifice the quality of the meal, all restaurants will meet Pro Catholic Tour's very high standards. Since we have several different trip configurations touring at the same time, it is likely that groups on different tours will be combined when their itineraries overlap in certain areas.