Invitation to a Sicilian Palace - 5D/4N

photo of a Sicily Palace, courtesy of the Tourism Board in ItalyIf your ghost of Sicily resembles the waltz of Claudia Cardinale in the arms of Burt Lancaster, do not hesitate to adorn smoking and evening gown, because you are invited to spend a few nights in the most beautiful palaces of the nobility Sicilian. Four days during which you will be able to visit with your liking the archeological sites or natural of the island, while the evenings the noble families await you to divide with them one unforgettable moment in their residences full with memories, or to discover their way of life and their decoration with the sometimes secular charms. An exceptional experiment to appreciate the face nostalgic and privileged of Sicily of Gattopardo!

Included: 4 Nights in noble palaces in BB: 1 night Palazzo Biscari or similar / 1 night Palazzo Beneventano or similar in an apartment of the family / 1 night Eremo della Giubiliana or similar – suite Grand Maestro / 1 night Palazzo Ajutamicristo or similar – superior room inside the palace. Breakfast included - A lunch with the ancient recipes of the religious tradition of Eremo Della Giubiliana convent - A Romantic dinner with the traditional recipes « palermitane » of the “Calefati” Family - Documentation about Sicily that your customer will find arriving in the first palace - The assistance of our office - All taxes.

Not included: The flight to and from Sicily - Car rental - Meals (except the 2 mentioned) - Excursions - Passports and visas - Tips and extras of any personal nature.

Departures: Daily.

Notes: Minimum 2 Passengers. This circuit can be made also with a private car with driver- guide speaking English, to profit in all serenity from these exceptional visits. The car will be at your disposal X the duration of the circuit (5 days) from the arrival to the departure, to do all the visits and excursions with a driver /guide speaking English.
On request we reserve Pre and Post tour and also hotels or farm house to stay in Sicily more days.

photo of the Eremo della Giubiliana Hotel, courtesy of the Tourism Board in ItalyDay by day Itinerary:

  • Day 1 Catania - Welcome and night in Palazzo Biscari. Le plus: in a quiet lane which skirts the cathedral in the old center of Catania, there is a palace of the beginning 18th, which allured Goethe, and where one of the princes married beautiful women of the Provenza at the beginning of 20th. An apartment is reserved to the visitors after the discovery of the rooms in beautiful baroque style and where there are inordinately tops painted.
  • Day 2 Syracuse - Welcome and night in Palazzo Beneventano. Le plus: well located face of the Cathedral on a small place pedestrian in the shape of shell, the palace will make you live in the heart of a romantic and baroque Syracuse , on the peninsula of Orthygie, splendid interlacing of lanes and beautiful palaces and where it is easy to forget that the modern world exists.
  • Day 3 Raguse - Welcome and night in the ancient convent Eremo della Giubiliana + lunch ( based on the ancient recipes of the convent tradition). Le plus: ‘The old convent Eremo della Giubiliana, was transformed today into a charming hotel by a family of the nobility Sicilian which live there. The rooms that we reserve for you are luxury suites, with the medieval seal Sicilian, with terraces and a beautiful panorama on the vineyards and the plain which goes down to the beach of Raguse. A swimming pool was arranged under the olive-trees in the very beautiful garden. In option, you have the possibility of making a flight in Piper (track at 1km of the convent) until Lampedusa, southernmost of European islands, located face to the Tunisian coasts.
  • Day 4 Palermo - Welcome and night in Palazzo Aiutamicristo + romantic dinner reserved in exclusivity x you in a charming dining room. Le plus: in the heart of Palermo, a palace coming from a medieval Italy, with the balconies in warheads where cascade of flowers of ivy of torches at the come evening, here you will really change of century. Let us salt in enfilades, pictures painted with profusion, hangings of Dames and mirrors with gildings, with that and there, the key of modernity which proves that families live well here with the 21e century. This palace will finish in beauty this rare and invaluable route.

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