SICILY · ITALY
Lava trails, Doric columns, three coasts of sea.
Tours across Sicily — climbs up Etna, boats around the Aeolian Islands, cooking classes in Palermo and day trips to the Greek temples at Agrigento.
The day everyone books
Start with the one travellers pick first.
If you’ve only got one day in Sicily, this is the tour the largest number of travellers come back saying they took.
The classics
Sicily’s Most Popular Tours
Etna, Palermo, Taormina, Agrigento. The places most travellers come to Sicily to see.
By place
Pick a side of Sicily.
Each is its own day. Etna for the volcano. Palermo for the markets and the Arab-Norman cathedrals. Catania for baroque under the smoke. Taormina for the Greek theatre over the sea. Syracuse for Ortigia. The Aeolian Islands for the boats.
By tour type
Or pick how you want to spend the day.
Cooking class for the kitchen. Wine tour for the volcanic vineyards. Boat for the three coasts. Walking tour for Palermo’s markets. Hike if you want to walk Etna. Godfather day for Coppola’s towns.
From a Sicilian kitchen
Eat like a Sicilian.
Arancini, cannoli, pasta alla Norma, fresh ricotta, granita with brioche. Three classes that put you next to a Sicilian cook with a wooden board and a bag of flour.
Volcanic vineyards
Wine grown on lava.
Etna’s slopes are some of the only commercial wine vineyards in Europe with active volcanic soil. Nerello Mascalese, Carricante, Nero d’Avola. Three tastings on the volcano’s eastern face.
Three coasts, one island
Sicily, by sea.
Ionian to the east, Tyrrhenian to the north, the wide Mediterranean below. We’d send our friends to these three boat days first.
Only in Sicily
Three reasons travellers come here specifically.
What this island has that nowhere else does.
Temples older than Athens
Greek temples, intact.
The Valley of the Temples in Agrigento has seven Doric temples standing better preserved than anything left in Greece. Selinunte’s archaeological park is the largest in the Mediterranean.
- Palermo: Agrigento and the Valley of the Temples Day Tour
- Catania: Valley of the Temples and Turkish Steps with Snack
- From Palermo: Villa Romana and Valley of the Temples Trip
Corleone country, on location
Coppola’s Sicily.
The Godfather wasn’t built on a backlot — it was filmed in Savoca, Forza d’Agrò and the actual hill towns above Taormina. Bar Vitelli still serves granita to the same tables.
- From Taormina: Savoca and Forza d’Agrò The Godfather Tour
- Catania/Taormina: The Godfather Filming Locations Tour
- From Catania: Taormina, Savoca, & Castelmola Tour w/ Lunch
A working volcano
You can stand on Etna.
Europe’s most active volcano is 3,329 metres high and venting most weeks of the year. Lava caves, summit cable-cars, jeep tours through old flows you can still feel the heat off.
- Sicily: Etna and Alcantara Gorges Full-Day Tour with Lunch
- Catania: Etna Sunset Tour with Pickup and Drop-off
- Etna Morning Trip
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