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Agrigento tours
In
the footsteps of Inspector Montalbano and Andrea Camilleri tour
Luigo Pirandello's 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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to see your ancestors' hometowns while on a cruise? Sicily TravelNet can arrange
customized tours and shore trips to hometowns in Sicily: Burgio, Calatabellotta
Prizzi, Vallelunga, Burgio, Santa Ninfa, Grotte, Corleone, Campofelice di Fitalia,
Castrofilippo Lercara Friddi, Corleone, Delia, Realmonte, Ravanusa, Canicattì,
Casteltermini, Serradifalco, Cattolica Eraclea, Alessandria della Rocca, Bivona,
Santo Stefano Quisquina, Montedoro, Campobello Sutera, Camamrata, San Giovanni
Gemini and more... Agrigento's
Valley of the Temples
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Testimonials Hi
Michele! I want you to know that all of us on the tour think highly of Salvo,
you and Sicily TravelNet. I will be certain to recommend your tours to other cruisers
on a website for cruisers that I visit a lot. Thanks
again for all the help you gave us in planning this tour. We hope to return to
Sicily and tour with you again because there's still so much to see.
Bev
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Cuccia , a typical dish made of cooked wheat grains.
The Cuccia festival is held
on St Lucy's day
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tour
A day trip in the heart of Sicily 
The
small villlage of Montedoro sits on a hill called "Monte Octavio", 500
mt. above sea level and 32 km west of the city
of Caltanisetta. It was founded
at the begining of 1600’s
by the noble family Aragona. They gave the
town the name “Montedoro” because it was situated in an area that in
the
past was characterized by the production of sulfhur, then considered “The
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The
tour starts in “Piazza Europa” where in the center stands the “Chiesa
Madre”. It is dedicated to the Holy Mary of the Rosary and it was constructed
in 1644. The front of the building that has changed many times is in gothic renaissance
style. Inside we find the baptismal font in marble baroque style of remarkable
artistic value.Our exploration
of Montedoro continues with a visit to the “Case museo” of the
early ‘900, characterized by the typical architecture of the peasant civilization,and
a stop at the “villa comunale” enriched by numerous sculptures,
paintings and murales by various contemporary artist. Finally,
we visit of the “Museo delle miniere”, a new museum telling the
story of mining in Montedoro with a recostruction of the ambience of old sulphur
mines. It helps understand the hardship of the life of miners and "carusi",
the small boys who carried out the sulfur rocks to furnaces located nearby.
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type: private tour from a Agrigento,
Palermo, Taormina and Catania hotels and accommodation or a shore trip from Porto
Empedocle, Palermo, Catania and Taormina port of call.
Chauffer- driven.
On demand we can provide English speaking driver/ guide and/or licensed tour guide. Time
duration: 5 hours from Agrigento. 7 hours from Palermo, Catania and Taormina Driving
time: 40 miinutes from Agrigento, one and half hours from Palermo and Catania,
2 hours from Taormina 15 minutes from Porto Empedocle pier, Departure
time: on demand Meeting
place for cruisers: Pier. The guide/ driver will hold a sign with clients'
name.
Meeting place for travellers: your selected hotel/ accommodation
in Agrigento, Palermo, Catania and Taormina 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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