Sicilian Gardens Tour
8 Days / 7 Nights
Day 1: Palermo
Arrival at Palermo airport and meet your tour manager. Transfer to your hotel
in Palermo followed by a welcome cocktail and presentation of the tour. Dinner
and overnight in hotel.
Day 2: Palermo - Monreale
After breakfast, departure to visit the Botanical Garden in Palermo,
founded between 1779-95, where one may admire a remarkable collection of plants
from the tropics and subtropics including giant fig trees from Asia and Australia,
aloes, a fine selection of Mediterranean plants, palms and tropical trees. Continue
to Villa Giulia. Goethe visited this garden in 1787 and described it
as “the most wonderful spot on earth…it seems enchanted and transports
one back into the ancient world”.
Independent lunch and continue for a visit of the magnificent Villa Bordonaro.
Free time in Palermo.
Dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Palermo - Bagheria
After breakfast depart for your guided visit of Villa Camastra (which
dates back to the XVth century) situated along the way to Monreale, acquired
and restored by the Tasca family in the 1800’s. We will see the two gardens,
“first garden”, in front of the neoclassical villa and the “romantic
garden” divided by ponds and groves in three areas. Continue to the villa
and gardens of Malfitano maintained by the Whitaker foundation where one
may admire an outstanding collection of exotic plants.
Independent Lunch and continue to Bagheria where you will visit “Villa
Palagonia” known all over the world for its grotesques carved out
of local tufa stone. Continue on your guided visit of the baroque XVII century
villas of Bagheria.
Return to your hotel in Palermo for dinner and overnight.
Day 4: Taormina
After breakfast departure to Taormina.
Arrival and free time to admire this beautiful town and its famous Greek theatre.
Dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Taormina - Girdini Naxos
After breakfast, guided visit of the lovely garden and house of Casa Cuseni
built by Robert Kitson in 1907. This garden has a distinctive English atmosphere
and a spectacular view of Mount Etna and the sea. Continue to the gardens of
Villa Madonna della Rocca. The hanging gardens are deeply terraced with
magnificent views of the Greek theatre to the east and the sea to the west.
Independent Lunch.
Afternoon at disposal for relax in this beautiful area.
Dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Lentini - Siracusa
After breakfast departure for Lentini for your guided visit of the garden
of Il Biviere a truly unique Mediterranean garden, illustrated by the
owner.
Independent Lunch and continue to Siracuse for a brief visit of the town and
the gardens of “Villa Lucia”. Dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Piazza Armerina - Palermo
After breakfast, departure to Villa Romana del Casale, where you will
admire the mosaics found in the roman villa and the garden located in the centre
of the villa complex.
Independent Lunch in Piazza Armerina and continue to Palermo for farewell dinner
and overnight.
Day 8: Departure
After breakfast transfert to Palermo Airport. Departure
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