Palermo Trip Overview
3-day western Sicily mini-tour to explore an alternative Sicily with unpublished routes from Palermo to Corleone, Capaci, Terrasini, Borgo Parrini
Tour including hostess escort in Italian or English
Additional Info
Duration: 3 days
Starts: Palermo, Italy
Trip Category: Multi-day & Extended Tours >> Multi-day Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Palermo, Province of Palermo, Italy
3-day western Sicily mini-tour to explore an alternative Sicily with unpublished routes from Palermo to Corleone, Capaci, Terrasini, Borgo Parrini
Tour including hostess escort in Italian or English
Itinerary
Day 1: Palermo – Mondello – Monreale – Zisa Castle
Stop At: Cattedrale di Palermo, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 90040, Palermo, Sicily Italy
visit to the cathedral of Palermo
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Church and Monastery of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, Piazza Bellini 2, 90133, Palermo, Sicily Italy
visit to the Church of Santa Caterina and the workshop of sweets I Segreti del Chiostro in the former monastery
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Mercato Ballaro, Vicolo Del Carmelo, 90134, Palermo, Sicily Italy
visit to the historic market of ballarò
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Mondello, Mondello, Palermo, Province of Palermo, Sicily
visit to the wonderful seaside village of Mondello
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Duomo di Monreale, Piazza Guglielmo II 1, 90046, Monreale, Sicily Italy
visit to the Cathedral of Monreale with its extraordinary mosaics
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Il Castello della Zisa, Piazza Guglielmo il Buono, 90100, Palermo, Sicily Italy
The Palazzo della Zisa stood outside the city walls of Palermo, inside the Norman royal park
The Palazzo della Zisa with its construction features is the best preserved model of Arab-Norman palatial architecture.
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: Anti-Mafia Tour Corleone, Capaci, Palermo
Stop At: CIDMA: Mafia and Anti-Mafia Center Guided Visits, Via G. Valenti 7, 90034 Corleone, Sicily Italy
Visit of the Mafia Museum C.I.D.M.A. – International Center for Documentation on the Mafia and the Anti-Mafia Movement.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Albero Falcone, Via Emanuele Notarbartolo 23, 90141, Palermo, Sicily Italy
stop at the Falcone tree, symbol of antimafia in Palermo
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Giardino della Memoria Quarto Savona Quindici, Via Giovanni Falcone, 90040 Capaci, Sicily Italy
Visit to the site of the Capaci massacre where judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and legacy “Il Giardino della Memoria” were killed
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Albero della pace in via D’Amelio, Via D’Amelio, 90143, Palermo, Sicily Italy
Visit to the Tree of Peace in Palermo, site of the massacre of Judge Paolo Borsellino and the men of the escort
Duration: 30 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 3: Segesta, Terrasini Regional Museum, Borgo Parrini with return to Palermo
Stop At: Tempio di Segesta, Contrada Barbaro SNC, 91013 Calatafimi-Segesta, Sicily Italy
visit to the archaeological site of Segesta
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Terrasini, Terrasini, Province of Palermo, Sicily
View of the renowned tourist resort of Terrasini with its wonderful Mother Church
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Borgo Parrini, Partinico, Sicily Italy
visit to the characteristic Borgo Parrini ancient village of the ‘700 inhabited by the Jesuit fathers from which the name “PARRINI” whose architecture recalls that of Antoni Gaudi
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Museo del Carretto Siciliano, Lungomare Peppino Impastato, 90049 Terrasini, Sicily Italy
The Museum possesses a conspicuous naturalistic collection consisting of over 500,000 objects of various kinds and types (paleontology, malacology, entomology, ornithology, mineralogy, geology) which thus places it among the largest naturalistic museums in Italy. The ethno-anthropological collection includes carts, model boats and other objects of peasant material culture acquired for some time at the Regional State Property
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
