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There
is more to Agrigento
than the Valley of the Temples:
one day tours in
Agrigento
and environs Donnafugata
tour:
Palma di Montechiaro
On
the trail of the Leopard.
Luigi
Pirandello's Girgenti In
the footsteps of Inspector Montalbano and Andrea Camileri tour
Agrigento's
Valley of the temples tour
Archeological
museum of Agrigento
Gela
and Licata tour: the landing beach and WWII Sciacca
tour: pottery and hot baths Baroque
Agrigento tour: Licata and Naro Cooking
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Agrigento's
Valley of the Temples
A visitor's guide
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in the middle of the town, right on a leafy square, it spread over a vast expanse
and contained about a hundred rooms, large and small. ... included state-rooms,
living-rooms, quarters for thirty guests, servants' rooms, three great courtyards,
stables and coach-houses, a private theatre and church, a large and very lovely
garden, and a big orchard." Places
of My Infancy
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of
"The Leopard"
The
Mother Church
at Santa Margehrita Belice | | |
Donnafugata
tour: "The Leopard" places
in Santa Margherita Belice
On the trail of "The Leopard". Visit the places
associated with
Tomasi di Lampedusa Donnafugata
is a fictional town that includes existing and easily recognizable
places. According to the information contained
in a
letter Lampedusa wrote to his friend Baron Enrico di Merlo Tagliavia
"The palace at Donnafugata is one and the same as
the one at
Santa Margherita, while for the town as a whole,
the reference is to Palma
Montechiaro"
Santa
Margherita Belice is the place where Lampedusa spent the happiest moments
of his childhood and is linked to the figure of his mother and the Tasca di Filangeri
Cutò
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| Santa
Margherita di Belice, founded by Antonio Corbera on the ruins of an Arab castle
and hit by the earthquake of 1968, is the place where the writer spent the summer
as a child. The tour begins at the Palazzo Filangieri Cutò which
is the setting of some of the most memorable scenes of "The Leopard".
The building belonged to the family of his mother and hosted for a few months,
the "woman in flight or Donnafugata" - the Queen Carolina Lorena,
wife of Ferdinand IV, confined there by Lord Bentick, British military governor
of Sicily. Among the restored rooms of the palace, a room upstairs with manuscripts
of “The Leopard” , family portraits, photographs of Santa Margherita
before the earthquake and the "Wax museum"", where shapes of wax
figures representing the main characters of the Leopard help you re-live the atmoshpere
of the novel. Adjacent to the palace, the garden with trees, admirably described
in the book. Short Walk to the city centre to admire the remains of the Mother
Church and the ruins of the old Santa Margherita destroyed by the earthquake
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Tour
type: private tour from a Agrigento,
Sciacca, Palermo hotels/ accommodation or a shore trip from Porto Empedocle, Trapani
and Palermo port of call. Half day from Agrigento and full day from Palermo and
Trapani.
Chauffer- driven. On demand we can provide English speaking
driver/ guide and/or licensed tour guide. Time
duration: the tour can be done in half day (about 3 hours). It can be combined
with the tour of Palma di Montechiaro (about 7 hours) Driving
time: 1 hour and 20 minutes from most hotels in Agrigento and from Porto Empedocle
pier, 20 minutes from Sciacca, 2 hours from Palermo and Trapani. Departure
time: on demand Meeting
place for cruisers: pier of Porto Emepdocle, Trapani or Palermo: The guide/
driver will hold a sign with clients' name.
Meeting place for travellers:
your selected hotel/ accommodation in Agrigento, Sciacca, Trapani, Palermo Tour
cost: depends on the services requested (driver,
English speaking driver, licensed tour guide, driver/guide). Please ask for a
quote: info@sicilytravel.net
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