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A
tasty
week
in
Sicily...fun,
food
and
an
amazing
experience
of
an
incredible
landscape
and
fascinating
history.
Day
1 -
Welcome
in
Sicily
Upon
your
arrival
at
Palermo
airport,
you’ll
be
met
and
transferred
by
your
English
speaking
driver
to
your
three
star
hotel
in
the
city
centre.
Dinner
at
leisure
and
overnight
stay.
Day
2 -
Cooking
class
and
food
markets
 
Breakfast
in
hotel
and
meeting
with
Chef
Clemente.
You
will
venture
to
one
of
Palermo’s
historic
markets
(Il
Capo,
La
Vucciria
or
Borgo
Vecchio)
were
will
purchase
all
the
ingredients
necessary
to
prepare
your
meal.
Along
the
way,
you
will
also
taste
some
of
Palermo’s
most
typical
foods,
such
as
“panelle”
and
“pane
con
la
milza”.
Hands
on
cooking
class
in a
typical
restaurant
and
lunch.
The
dishes
you've
prepared
will
be
served
with
just
the
right
Sicilian
wine,
and
dessert
accompanied
by
local
biscotti
and
Sicilian
dessert
wine.
After
lunch
you
will
see
on
your
own
the
most
important
monuments
of
Palermo
as
Quattro
Canti
(the
Four
Corners),
Palermo’s
extravagant
baroque
square
and
the
twelfth-century
Cathedral
of
Palermo.
Transfer
to
Monreale,
where
you’ll
admire
the
Arab-Norman
magnificence
of
the
Cathedral.
This
nearby
treasure
dates
from
the
12th
century
and
shows
the
different
architectural
influences
of
both
the
Normans
and
the
Arab
population.
Dinner
on
your
own.
Return
to
the
hotel
and
overnight
stay.
Day
3 -
Cefalù
and
Gangi
Breakfast
and
departure
for
Gangi
with
visit
to
Cefalù
en
route.
This
enchanting
fishing
village
and
summertime
resort
sits
on a
rocky
outcrop
in
the
centre
of
Sicily’s
north
coast.
Cefalù
lies
in a
scenic
locale
between
the
massive
peak
and
a
long
sweeping
beach.
Against
this
backdrop
rise
the
lofty
twin
towers
of
the
cathedral
built
by
Roger
II
in
1130.
This
splendid
cathedral
is
one
of
the
finest
examples
of
Arab-Norman
architecture,
and
contains
luminous
mosaics.
Lunch
at
leisure.
In
the
afternoon,
scenic
drive
through
the
Madonie
Region
to
arrive
in
Gangi,
where
you
will
meet
Giovanna
Tornabene
at
her
cooking
school.
Giovanna
and
her
mother
Wanda
are
two-time
James
Beard
Award
winners
for
"Best
Italian
Cookbook.”:
Gangivecchio's
Sicilian
Kitchen,
100
Ways
To
Be
Pasta,
Sicilia
Home
Cooking.
We
suggest
to
have
a
dinner
at
Tenuta
Gangivecchio.
Overnight
stay
at
Gangivecchio.
Day
4 -
Cooking
class
with
Giovanna
Breakfast
and
meeting
with
Giovanna,
who
will
be
ready
to
teach
you
the
tricks
of
natural
and
simple
flavors.
You
will
enjoys
the
foods
made
in
class
during
lunch.
In
the
afternoon
departure
for
Piazza
Armerina
where
you’ll
view
the
extraordinary
floor
mosaics
in
the
Roman
Villa
del
Casale.
The
famed
Roman
mosaics
housed
in
this
third-century
villa
are
among
the
best
preserved
in
the
world,
depicting
scenes
from
everyday
life.
Arrival
in
Agrigento
and
overnight
stay
at
hotel
Domus
Aurea,
with
a
beautiful
temples
view,
where
we
suggest
to
have
a
dinner.
Overnight
stay.
Day
5 -
Valley
of
the
Temples
Breakfast
and
meeting
with
your
guide
to
visit
of
the
Valley
of
the
Temples,
one
of
the
most
representative
sites
of
Greek
civilization
in
the
Mediterranean
area.
Visit
to
the
Temple
of
Hercules,
the
Temple
of
Juno,
the
Temple
of
Castor
and
Pollux,
the
wonderful
Temple
of
Concord
and
finally
the
beautiful
Garden
of
Kolymbetra.
Lunch
on
your
own.
Visit
a
dairy
to
see
the
“pecorino”
and
“ricotta”
production,
from
the
milking,
to
the
cooking,
to
the
maturing
of
the
product.
Local
products
and
cheeses
tasting.
Dinner
on
your
own.
Return
to
the
hotel
and
overnight
stay.
Day
6 -
Cooking
Class
and
Chocolate
Tasting
Breakfast
and
transfer
to
eastern
Sicily
through
the
Baroque,
whose
heritage,
both
for
importance
and
for
beauty,
has
been
declared
World
Heritage
by
the
UNESCO.
Arrival
at
Palazzo
Failla
a
beautiful
charming
historic
dwelling
in
historical
centre
of
Modica.
In
the
morning
you
can
visit
Modica,
(on
your
own)
where
you
will
admire
picturesque
lanes
and
arrows
streets,
with
plenty
of
old
workshops,
St.
George’s
Church,
the
only
one
including
a
nave
and
as
good
as
four
aisles.
You
can
visit
the
Antica
Dolceria
Bonajuto,
the
oldest
confectionary
shop
of
Sicily
and
taste
the
very
famous
chocolate
of
Modica.
Lunch
at
leisure.
Return
to
the
hotel
and
meeting
with
the
Chef
Failla,
that
will
organize
your
hands-on
classes,
you
learn
how
to
prepare
“Scacce
Ragusane”,
typical
Sicilian
food,
Making
of
Cavati,
home
made
pasta,
Rabbit
“ a
stimpirata”,
typical
Sicilian
plate
(rabbit
meat
served
with
vegetables).
Finally,
making
and
tasting
of
typical
Chocolate
of
Modica
(the
recipe
coming
from
ancient
Aztecs).
The
chocolate
of
Modica
is
special
and
very
particular
because
of
the
lack
of
cacao
butter,
the
only
ingredients
are
cacao
and
sugar.
Dinner
at
exclusive
restaurant
La
Locanda
del
Colonnello.
Overnight
stay
at
Palazzo
Failla.
Day
7
Breakfast
and
departure
for
Catania
airport,
or
choose
to
extend
your
tour
to
visit
Etna
and
Taormina!
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