Country Roads of Southern Italy & Sicily - Classic Group
Overview
Highlights
- Choose between two carefully selected activities
- Capri: Discover the luxuriant Gardens of Augustus with a Local Expert and admire views of the Faraglioni rocks.
- Capri: Enjoy a tasting of limoncello, Capri's traditional lemonliqueur.
- Rome: Enjoy a Welcome Dinner with your fellow travellers at a uniquely Roman local restaurant.
- Capri: Enjoy a tasting of limoncello, Capri's traditional lemonliqueur.
- Palermo: At a local restaurant, enjoy fresh, rustic dishes served with local wine at your Celebration Dinner.
- Dining Summary: 7 Dinner with Wine (DW), and 13 Breakfast (B)
- Rome: Sightsee the local way, with a leisurely passeggiata through the backstreets, where a friend in Rome will explain how modern life takes place, around ancient treasures like the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona.
- Sorrento: Perched upon the cliffs, lookout to see the mighty Mount Vesuvious across the Bay of Naples.
- Capri: Discover the luxuriant Gardens of Augustus with a Local Expert and admire views of the Faraglioni rocks.
What's this trip about?
Itinerary
Welcome to Rome, a glorious city filled with classic antiquities, medieval buildings, renaissance palaces and baroque churches. Transfers depart from Rome's Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport for your hotel at 09:30, 12:30 and 15:30. Relax and settle in before joinin...
Rome is about art, antiquity, piazzas and pizza, and our guided walk with a Local Expert has it in abundance. Toss a coin into the spectacular Trevi Fountain, see the Pantheon, the best-preserved monument from the Roman period, and enjoy free time to do as the Romans ...
Meet your Local Expert for a guided visit through the Vatican Museums, culminating beneath Michelangelo's famous ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. Your priority visit includes fast-tracked entry and a behind-the-scenes look at the Bramante Staircase, a part of the Vatica...
Cruise by jetfoil through the impossibly blue sea to the sun-drenched island of Capri. On arrival, enjoy an escorted ride in an open-top taxi to Capri Town and meet your Local Expert for an orientation walk through narrow alleyways. Explore Capri with Insight Choice. ...
Start your day in Pompeii, buried in A.D. 79 by the historic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Walk with your Local Expert through the cobbled streets to see a city frozen in time. Venture on to Alberobello.
Grand Hotel La Chiusa di Chietri, Alberobello.
Breakfast, Dinner with Wine
Admire another of Italy's record number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites with a Local Expert. The Trulli of Alberobello are circular structures with conical roofs that are domed within. They are built from local limestone and stacked without using mortar. In the evening...
The day is free for you to enjoy this fascinating town. Perhaps visit Ostuni - reminiscent of a North African Arab Medina - with its stark, whitewashed buildings, narrow cobbled streets and arched stairways? Later, relax and indulge in the amenities of your remarkable hotel.
Grand Hotel La Chiusa di Chietri, Alberobello.
Breakfast
Journey along the country roads to the ancient town of Matera, specially selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2019. Meet with a Local Expert for an in-depth exploration of the extraordinary Sassi, a complex of cave dwellings carved into the mountainside, th...
In the morning, travel along the Purple Coast to the very toe of Italy and board your ferry bound for Sicily, across the Strait of Messina. According to Grecian legend, this was home to the mythical sea monsters Scylla, a six-headed rock monster, and Charybdis, a whir...
The day is at leisure to relax at your resort's private beach, or perhaps explore the medieval quarter? Don't miss the chance of an optional drive through the national park to Mount Etna, Europe's largest volcano.
RG Naxos Hotel, Taormina.
Breakfast
Early risers may experience what D.H. Lawrence christened the ‘dawn coast of Europe.' The day is free to explore Taormina at your leisure, or to embark on an Optional Experience to Syracuse.In the evening, venture to a local restaurant for a tasty meal accompanied by wine.
RG Naxos Hotel, Taormina.
Breakfast, Dinner with Wine
Drive to Agrigento and walk along the fortified ridge of the Valley of the Temples with a Local Expert. See the massive Temple of Concord and clifftop Temple of Juno, overlooking the sea. In the afternoon, continue to the Sicilian capital of Palermo.
NH Palermo.
Breakfast
Join a historian on a guided walk to see the gems of the old city. Visit the amazing Palatine Chapel in the Palace of the Normans. Outside, there are few clues to its astonishing interior, completely covered in glittering 12th century mosaics. Continue to the Palermo ...
Your journey draws to an end. Departure transfers arrive at Palermo Falcone–Borsellino Airport at 06:00 and 08:00.
Breakfast
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Insight Vacations Reviews & Ratings
Donna Withrow
Oct 2022
Country Roads of Southern Italy & Sicily
On this trip, I especially enjoyed traveling to places that were off the beaten track that you don't usually hear about, such as those on the east coast of Italy. T...
Anne Szabo
Oct 2022
Country Roads of Southern Italy & Sicily
I like travelling to areas of the world that are somewhat "off the beaten track" without compromising safety, quality of accommodations and southern Italy and Sicil...
Hilda Broer
Oct 2022
Country Roads of Southern Italy & Sicily
Good mix of scenery and stops along the way! Awesome architecture, scenery and history! Nice to have a few relaxed starts and stays of longer than one day. A few r...
Jeffrey Clinton
Sep 2022
Country Roads of Southern Italy & Sicily
We enjoyed the itinerary and the sights we saw. It would have been nice to tour the Pantheon but we just walked past it. We later discovered on Sunday admission wa...
Ruth Norwood
Sep 2022
Country Roads of Southern Italy & Sicily
We traveled to places that we had wanted to see, and the guides en...
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- Welcome Piram Hotel, Rome.
- Hotel Isabella, Sorrento.
- Grand Hotel La Chiusa di Chietri, Alberobello.
- MH Matera Hotel.
- RG Naxos Hotel, Taormina.
- NH Palermo.
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