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* This tour requires at least one of the following per booking: Adult, Senior
This is a private and exclusive tour, you will only be in the group, there will be no other people. We will be out of the normal tourist circuits, we will visit isolated, peaceful and safe places. in countryside areas away from the city. Full day excursion departing from Palermo and the province. With new and comfortable van, driver who speaks English and French available during all the visits advising and explaining the main things to do and see. During the tour you will visit Segesta with its perfectly preserved Greek temple. After you will leave for Erice, a unique medieval town located at top of a mountain, In Erice you can also taste the typical almond sweets of local production as well as delicious wines famous all over the world.After the tour you will go down to Trapani around lunchtime, we will go to the restaurant located in the heart of the salt pans where you will taste the traditional Sicilian cuisine. After lunch we will continue the visit of the Saline.
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Round Trip
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Transport by licensed air-conditioned minivan or car
Professional English speaking Driver
Exclusive Private Tour, only for your Group
Food and drinks
Tickets
Gratuities
Licensed Guide
Departure Point
Traveler pickup is offered
We offer pick up and drop off to all hotels, b & bs, holiday homes, ports and accommodation in Palermo. departure time 08.30 a.m.
Traveler pickup
Palermo Airport (PMO), 90045 Cinisi PA, Italy
Palermo
Tempio di Segesta, Calatafimi-Segesta, Italy The temple, sometimes called the "Great Temple", was built during the last thirty years of the fifth century BC, [1] on the top of a hill west of the city, outside its walls. It is a large hexastyle peripteral temple (ie with six columns on the shorter side, not grooved). On the long side it has instead fourteen columns (in total 36 then, 10 meters high). The current state of preservation presents the entire colonnade of the complete peristasis of the entire entablature. Despite the constructive elements and the proportions of the construction clearly referring to the classical period of Greek architecture, the temple presents peculiar aspects on which historiography does not express unanimous opinions. 60 minutes
Castello di Venere, Erice, Italy Erice Walking tour of the beautiful medieval town located on the top of the homonymous mountain at 760 meters high,
we will visit the temple dedicated to Venus, the castle, the towers and the beautiful cathedral. The town, surrounded by cyclopean walls, is characterized by stone paths and adorned with trees, plants and flowers, which give the center a magical and enchanted atmosphere. The wide and spectacular view from Erice is breathtaking: you can see Trapani with its characteristic sickle shape and the Mount Cofano reserve with Custonaci at its feet. You can also taste the typical almond sweets famous all over the world.
60 minutes
Museo del Sale, Paceco, Italy Of Phoenician origin, the Arab geographer al-Idrīsī documents the presence of salt pans already in the period of Norman domination in Sicily. Under the reign of Frederick of Swabia, the state monopoly on salt production was established, which continued even during the Angevin domination. The Aragonese later ratified the return to private property, but it was under the Spanish crown that the salt production activity reached its peak, transforming the port of Trapani into the most important European trade center for the precious element. The salt pans from Trapani reached the islands of the Stagnone.
In the photo above the Salt Museum of Nubia, in the photo below the Infersa mill.
From 1861 with the Unification of Italy these salt pans were not nationalized, and they were the only ones to overcome the monopoly of the salt by the State, exporting it to different countries. After the First World War with the competition of the industrialized salt pans of Cagliari began the decline of the Trapani salt pans, accentuated by the outbreak of the Second World War and by foreign competition with rock salt. Many of the salt pans were abandoned or abandoned. 60 minutes
Riserva Naturale Saline Di Trapani E Paceco, Trapani, Italy Beautiful place, you can visit the salt Museum inside an old wind mill 60 minutes
Erice, Erice, Italy Visit of the beautiful medieval town on top of mountain, with the most beautiful panorama of Sicily 120 minutes
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
337PaulH337
13 Apr 2023
Interesting day out, great locations with lots of variety.
Would have liked more info from tour guide whilst travelling from venue to venue. Only one big spiel at the start.
Also tour guide needed to be more assertive with one guest who was 30 minutes late at the start and another 30 minutes late back to coach after visit to Segesta. 50 passengers were left waiting for 1 hour which meant less time at locations and a late return to Palermo which meant evening plans needed to be altered.
Miguel_S
24 Dec 2022
Umberto was a great tour guide. Very knowledgeable and very friendly. He explained everything during his driving about the local food the locals way of life. Mobsters stories and a lot more. He even make a stop to local eatery to buy a local spleen sandwich, uhmmmm delicious. Great guy, great company
Dan_W
23 Oct 2022
Our guide/driver, Umberto, was friendly and knowledgeable. He told stories of the areas we visited and kept us engaged with our visits. He was prompt and flexible with our schedule and desired destinations. We wished there were more time to visit the area.
This tour in
Sicily
is organized by
Apetour N.C.C. di Peritore Cristian
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