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Agrigento and Piazza Armerina: Valley of the Temples and Villa Romana del Casale
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About this activity
For the Agrigento Piazza Armerina tour we provide for pick-up service at your accommodation or in the close vicinity, with comfortable and luxury 8-seats vehicle.
First Stop: Driving to the southern cost of Sicily, you will travel across Sicily by comfortable and air-conditioned vehicle. The tour will begin with the visit of the majestic archaeological area of the Valley of the Temples, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pindar, the Greek poet and writer, described it as “one of the most beautiful cities of those inhabited by mortals”. “Valle dei Templi” is famous for its well-preserved temples, seven in total. Temple of Concordia is one of the best preserved Greek temples in the world helping the site to gain the classic UNESCO world heritage award. In the site, you can also visit the remains of many other temples dedicated to various divinity like Juno, Hercules, Hephaestus and Athena.
Second Stop: After strolling to the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, we will stop to enjoy a delicious packed lunch made of Sicilian street food offered by Sicilydaybyday.
Third Stop: In the early afternoon we will be in Piazza Armerina, a city woven in the hearth of Sicily. In this city is located the splendid Villa Romana del Casale, majestic imperial villa originally the property of a powerful Roman family. Here you will find the best conserved in-situ roman mosaics in the world.
The Villa Romana del Casale houses mosaic flooring – figurative and geometric – , wall mosaics, columns, stutues, capitals and coins. Since 1997 the city is part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
Please Note that: our driver guide is not a touristic guide, so he cannot enter inside the historical places. He will give you information during the trip on the vehicle, before you will go inside. A paper guide will be provided to be used inside the archeological areas.
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First Stop: Driving to the southern cost of Sicily, you will travel across Sicily by comfortable and air-conditioned vehicle. The tour will begin with the visit of the majestic archaeological area of the Valley of the Temples, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pindar, the Greek poet and writer, described it as “one of the most beautiful cities of those inhabited by mortals”. “Valle dei Templi” is famous for its well-preserved temples, seven in total. Temple of Concordia is one of the best preserved Greek temples in the world helping the site to gain the classic UNESCO world heritage award. In the site, you can also visit the remains of many other temples dedicated to various divinity like Juno, Hercules, Hephaestus and Athena.
Second Stop: After strolling to the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, we will stop to enjoy a delicious packed lunch made of Sicilian street food offered by Sicilydaybyday.
Third Stop: In the early afternoon we will be in Piazza Armerina, a city woven in the hearth of Sicily. In this city is located the splendid Villa Romana del Casale, majestic imperial villa originally the property of a powerful Roman family. Here you will find the best conserved in-situ roman mosaics in the world.
The Villa Romana del Casale houses mosaic flooring – figurative and geometric – , wall mosaics, columns, stutues, capitals and coins. Since 1997 the city is part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
Please Note that: our driver guide is not a touristic guide, so he cannot enter inside the historical places. He will give you information during the trip on the vehicle, before you will go inside. A paper guide will be provided to be used inside the archeological areas.
Included
- Fuel surcharge
- Local taxes
- FREE Snack with typical Sicilian street food, water and Etna wine
- Driver
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Transport by air-conditioned minivan
- Landing and facility fees
- Bottled water
Not included
- Touristic guide inside the historical places
- Lunch
- tickets
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infant seats available
- At time of booking, Cruise ship passengers must provide the following information at time of booking: ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and re-boarding time
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers
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Tourism
90%
Cultural
75%
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The day trip was an amazing travel to the past. The Valley of the Temples and Villa del Casale are breath taking walks. Our guide, Carlos is an excellent guide he provided written guides and maps of the sites and fed us esencial information. At lunch time we went to a nice quiet place where we were served tasty local food. I strongly recommend this tour.
Antonio (Sicily Day By Day tours) was a superb tour guide/narrator. He shared many insightful stories about the area and the Sicilian people/culture -- sharing himself and his knowledge freely on a variety of topics. There were 4 couples traveling together and we all agreed Antonio was very knowledgeable, helpful, and friendly. Lunch was included (supposed to be "light snacks" and it was a very filling and excellent lunch. Highly recommended - especially if Antonio is your guide!!
I totally recommend this tour, our guide Antonio was really amazing and very knowledgeable, it has been a pleasure having him as the tour guide, do not hesitate to take this tour!
This was a very enjoyable day visiting some truly interesting sites. Both main sites were beautiful and highly recommended. The only thing I would say is that considering we have to pay the entrance fees for both sites which were not included in the price of this tour, I feel it is quite overpriced.