Kingdom Of The Two Sicilies

Bus + Boat 9 days

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• First day
  »  Morning gathering at the meeting place.
  »  Morning leave by bus to Naples.
  »  Lunch break at the restaurant. Travel prosecution.
  »  Arrive in Naples in the evening. Meeting with our tourist guide.
  »  Lodgment in hotel in the booked rooms. Dinner in hotel. Overnight stay;
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• Second day: Naples
  »  Brakfast.
  »  The whole day will be dedicated to the guided visit to Naples by bus.
  »  Morning tour of monumental-historical Naples, around its 400 Gothic, Renaissance, baroque Churches and its 4 Angevin - Aragonese castles.
  »  Lunch in hotel. Afternoon dedicated to the panoramic Naples.
  »  Dinner in hotel. Overnight stay.
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• Third day: Naples/Pompei/Caserta/boat
  »  Brakfast. Leave the room.
  »  Morning tour to Pompei by bus. Guided visit to to Pompei. Guided tour to the archaeological excavations.
  »  Lunch in restaurant.
  »  Afternoon prosecution to Caserta. Guided tour to the famous palace by Vanvitelli and to its lush gardens.
  »  Move to the Naples naval station in the evening. Boarding on a Tirrenia ferry-boat.
  »  Lodging into the booked cabins. Leave for Palermo.
  »  Dinner on board. Overnight stay.
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• Fourth day: Palermo/Monreale/Palermo
  »  Arrive in Palermo in the morning, magnificent regional capital to the board of the golden valley.
  »  Breakfast. Guided tour the historical-monumental centre in the morning.
  »  Move to the hotel by bus. Lodging in the booked rooms.
  »  Lunch in Hotel.
  »  Afternoon tour by bus in Monreale. Guided tour to the superb Cathedral, masterpiece of the Arab Norman art and to the famous Benedictine cloister. On the way back, visit to the two original building of that period: the Cuba, hunting pavilion and its park, and the Zisa, ancient palace of pleasures of the Norman kings.
  »  Dinner in hotel.
  »  free evening tour to the Saint Rosalia’s Sanctuary, pathron of Palermo, over the panoramic Mount Pellegrino.
  »  Overnight stay.
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• 5° giorno: Palermo/Agrigento/Porto Empedocle
  »  Breakfast. Leave the room.
  »  Leave in the morning to Agrigento, the ancient Akragas founded by the Rhodian- Cretan colonists.
  »  Guided tour to the monumental Temples valley. One of the most important archaeological zone to Magna Graecia (Demetra’s Temple, Persefonis Sanctuary, Greek fortifications, Hellenic-Roman quarter, majestic housing development inhabited for more than seven centuries, Falarides Oratory, Olimpic Jove’s Temple, one of biggest building of the Greek architecture, Dioscuri’s Temple, symbol of the town, Teron’s temple, Esculapio’s temple, Heracles’temple-first Agrigento’s temple, Antiquarium, Concordia’s temple – one of the most perfect works, comparable in its solemnity only to the Parthenon in Athens - Juno’s, temple, solemn and solitary over a little hill, Gela’s door).
  »  Lunch in restaurant.
  »  If the weather, is good, short visit in the afternoon to the modern town, rich of monuments (Piazzale Roma, Via Atenea, Badia Grande di Santo Spirito XIII century Abbey, Chiesa del Purgatorio, Municipio, Via Matteotti, Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Greci, Gothic cathedral).
  »  Leaving Agrigento, the biggest town of the mortals, as Pindaros called it, you past through the Pirandello’s native house, in contrada caos.
  »  Arrive in the evening at Porto Empedocle, lovely tourist place near Agrigento.
  »  Lodging in the booked rooms in the hotel. Dinner in hotel. Overnight stay.
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• Sixth day: Porto Empedocle/Piazza Armerina/Taormina
  »  Breakfast. Leave the room.
  »  Morning leave by bus to Piazza Armerina. Guided tour to Villa Romana del Casale, famous for its polychromatic mosaics.
  »  Lunch in restaurant.
  »  Naxos Gardens, popular bathing place on the east coast.
  »  Lodging in the booked rooms. Dinner in hotel. Overnight stay.
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• Seventh day: Taormina/Etna/Taormina
  »  Breakfast.
  »  Morning tour by bus to Etna, passing through Fiumefreddo. Break at Rifugio Sapienza (1910 m).
  »  Free time for naturalistic ativities: free ascent by ropeway to the crater.
  »  Lunch in Hotel.
  »  Afternoon tour by bus in Taormina, first calcidese settlement in Sicily and world famous tourist centre. Guided tour to the monumental centre.
  »  Dinner in hotel. Overnight stay.
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• Eighth day: Taormina/Siracusa/Megara Hyblaea/Taormina
  »  Breakfast.
  »  Morning tour by bus to Siracusa, splendid Greek town founded by Corinthian refugees.
  »  Guided tour to the archaeological park of Neapolis and its historical centre.
  »  Lunch in restaurant.
  »  Afternoon hike suggested to Megara Hyblaea, important colony of megarese origin.
  »  Dinner in hotel. Overnight stay.
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• Ninth day: Taormina/Messina/Reggio Calabria/Sede
  »  Breakfast. Leave the room.
  »  Morning Leave by bus in highway. Arrive in Messina.
  »  Crossing the Messina’s Strait. Landing in Villa San Giovanni.
  »  Prosecution to Reggio Calabria, ancient calcidese settlement.
  »  Possible guided visit to the national Archaeological Museum wit the famous Bronzes of Riace.
  »  Lunch in restaurant.
  »  Travel. Arrival in the night to the final meeting place. End of services.