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There is more to Agrigento than the Valley of the Temples:
one day tours in Agrigento and environs

Agrigento's Valley of the Temples.
Shore excursion or day tour

In the footsteps of Inspector Montalbano and Andrea Camilleri
Shore excursion or day tour

Luigo Pirandello's Agrigento
Shore excursion or day tour

Gela and Licata tour: the landing beach and WWII
Shore excursion or day tour

Baroque Agrigento tour: Licata and Naro
Shore excursion or day tour

Cooking lesson and oil press
Shore excursion or day tour

 

 

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Agrigento's Valley of the Temples
A visitor's guide

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 shore excursion. We hope to return to Sicily and tour with you again because there's still so much to see.

Bev Shugg Barbeito




Sciacca from the harbour



 

Thermae

 

Sciacca, the spa and pottery town

 

Sciacca

Sciacca is famous for its ceramics and hot baths.
The tour covers
places of interest and locations where the most important events in the history
of Sciacca took place but also a pottery
workshop and oil press

We start from Mount Cronio (m.397), whose karst cavities and grottoes were used as a place of worship or for thearapeutical purposes by the local people, the Greeks, the Roman and the hermit Saint Calogero (5th centrury A.D.). After a stop to enjoy the breath-taking view and a visit to the Termae and the Antiquarium, transfer to the historical centre and walk between imposing princely palaces and religious buildings: the New Castle or Castle of the Luna counts, the baroque Duomo, dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene, on the project of the Sciacca architect Michele Blasco, Palazzo Scaglione with its museum, Palazzo Arona- Perollo, the Jesuite College (now the town hall), the San Domenico Church, founded in 1532 by father Tommaso Fazello, Piazza del Popolo or Scandaliato with its view of the port and the Mediterranean Sea, the Santa Margherita Church, built in 1342 at the behest of the infanta Eleonora of Aragona, Palazzo Perollo, the San Salvatore Gate, the Carmine Church, rebuilt in the 1700, the Steripinto Palace, in Catalan plateresque style and the Palermo Gate, surmounted by an eagle with open wings.


Tour type
: private tour from a Agrigento and Sciacca hotels and accommodation or a shore excursion from Porto Empedocle port of call. Half day trip. Chauffer- driven. Full day trip from Palermo accommodation or port of call. On demand we can provide English speaking driver/ guide and/or licensed tour guide.

Time duration: 4 hours.

Driving time: About 1 hour from Agrigento to Sciacca. 2 hours from Palermo.

Departure time: on demand

Meeting place for cruisers: pier of Porto Emepdocle or Palermo: The guide/ driver will hold a sign with clients' name.
Meeting place for travellers: your selected hotel/ accommodation in Agrigento, Sciacca or Palermo.

Tour cost: depends on the services requested (driver, English speaking driver, licensed tour guide, driver/guide). Please ask for a quote:

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