Transfer from Agrigento to Taormina with a stop in Catania

Meet your local guide and start a walking and food tour of Catania. Enjoy the markets and monuments of the city center and taste the best local street food. Along the Catania street food tour, you will taste few delicious specialties, such as the cipollina (baked roll with mozzarella, tomato and spring onion), the pointed arancino (rice, minced meat, tomato and stringy mozzarella) a seasonal sweet tune: the renowned granita with brioche. Not only food! The itinerary goes through some major historical attractions such as piazza Duomo and the Castello Ursino.

To begin the Taormina cooking class, make your own way this morning to the conveniently located Porta Messina meeting location in Taormina and meet the chef.

We take a short stroll to the neighborhood market, where we will get all the supplies for the cooking class as well as fresh fruit and vegetables. After that, we’ll head over to the house to begin cooking. At the conclusion of the cooking class, we will savor our delectable dishes with the ideal accompaniment—a tastefully paired Sicilian wine. Dessert is served next, along with a customary regional Dessert wine.

Enjoy a three-hour boat excursion that stops at Isola Bella, Taormina’s bays, and sea caves along the coast. At two of the sites, you can swim or snorkel and take in the sea floor, corals, and starfish.

Your driver will meet you at your hotel in the Taormina region, and you’ll be taken to the port to begin your private boat excursion.

Admire the interesting town of Taormina while you’re aboard our cozy boat. You will visit not only Isola Bella, one of the most renowned places in Taormina, defined as the Pearl of the Mediterranean, but the whole coast between Capo Naxos and Mazzarò including Naxos Bay, the Grotta del Giorno (refuge for fishermen), Capo Taormina, the fascinating Grotta Azzurra with its colorful shades of blue and red corals, the Bay of Mazzarò, S. Nicola Bay and Spisone Bay.

A look at the bottom loaded with corals and starfish may be had by swimming or snorkeling in one of Taormina’s most stunning bays. These breathtaking seascapes, with the Etna Volcano and the Gulf of Giardini Naxos in the distance, will give you a memorable and fascinating day.

The captain will provide you with a sample of Sicilian sweets, soft drinks, and almond wine in this enchanted setting.

A driver will transport you back to your accommodation at the conclusion of your boat tour.

Today along with your guide/driver, travel by comfortable air-conditioned car, to Etna – the highest active volcano in Europe, and one of the best wineries on Etna slope. 

Learn how Etna volcano created, history of eruptions, culture, myths, and folklore of “Mamma Etna” and Sicily itself. Drive through the small authentic mountain villages, and admire unforgettable picturesque views of Sicilian countryside full of oranges and lemon plantations, olives and almond trees, houses and old churches built of lava stone. 

First stop will be in Zafferana Etnea, small charming village on Etna slope, famous for its honey. You will visit a local honey farm and taste the produce of the fertile volcano terrain – honey, olive oil, olives, wines and liquors. Then continue to ascend Etna and see the Cyclops cave before reaching “Rifugio Sapienza” station at 2000mt. Here you can visit famous Silvestri Craters, admire breathtaking panoramas, visit souvenir shops offering gifts of lava, refresh yourself in some bar or restaurant.

With ascent by cable car and jeep with the authorized Alpine guide to 3000mt.

After visiting Mt.Etna, the guide will chauffeur you in relax to one of the best wineries on Etna slope. The owner of the winery will welcome you with a glass of cool white grillo, and you will have a tour of the estate, see how the grape is growing, and visit the cellars, while the owner explains you all about the wine making process and the history of this family run winery. 

Then you will sit on a beautiful terrace with an amazing panoramic view of the Mediterranean, and have traditional delicious and hearty lunch of locally produced cheeses, salami, prosciutto, home-made sausages, cous-cous, mushrooms, vegetables, fresh bread, olives and home-made olive oil. A professional sommelier will offer you 5 glasses of Sicilian Etna DOC red and white wines.

(Optional Helicopter Tour Available)

During “The Godfather” tour, you will walk along the authentic picturesque streets of Savoca and Forza d’Agro remained unchanged since the movie was made, visit ancient churches, famous Bar Vitelli where Michael Corleone asked Apollonia’s father her hand in marriage, church where they married, and other movie locations. Optionally, you may taste perfect local Sicilian wines and locally produced food sitting at a terrace with panoramic view of Savoca, mountains, the Mediterranean coast and surrounding countryside at a family-owned restaurant.

First stop is Savoca, an unspoilt medieval town that near Taormina that acted as stand-in for Corleone where Michael was hiding out during the “going to the mattresses” time. Here you will visit Bar Vitelli that looks exactly the way it did in the movie, and see the exact spot where Al Pacino informed Apollonia’s father that his name was Michael Corleone, and that “there are people who’d pay a lot of money for that information, but then your daughter would lose a father instead of gaining a husband”. Here you can take pictures with an authentic Sicilian shotgun “Lupara”, see pictures from the movie and a mirror monument for Coppola, enjoy panoramic view of the Mediterranean opening from the square where the wedding ceremony scene was shot, purchase The Godfather souvenirs, and – “leave the gun, take the cannoli” – taste original Sicilian cannoli and lemon granita at Bar Vitelli.

Then you will walk to an ancient church of Santa Lucia, where Michael and Apollonia were married kneeling in the doorway. Then follow the same path down the hill that the newlyweds did, and visit another old church dating back to the 13th century. Walking along the fabulous streets of Savoca, on a good day you can also meet some actors – for example a lady who played Apollonia’s mother and who still lives in Savoca.

Later, optionally you can visit a family-owned restaurant and at a terrace with romantic sea view taste local Sicilian wines with traditional food (locally produced cheeses, salami, prosciutto, caponata, olives, extra virgin olive oil, fresh home-made bread, home made lemon granita – everything is prepared with organic ingredients of local origin – “km0”!).

The tour will continue in Forza d’Agro, another stunning hilltop town with a “Godfather” connection. You will walk the abandoned streets (“Where have all men gone?” – “They’re dead from vendettas”), explore the historic square and see the pictures from the movie, visit ancient churches, see the piazza where young Vito Andolini (later Vito Corleone) escaped Don Ciccio’s men by hiding in a basket on a donkey’s back, walk up to see the remains of a 12th century Norman castle, admire delightful panoramic view of the Ionian coastline, and get a flavor of the Sicilian pastoral lifestyle remained unchanged since ancient times.