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ITALY’S SOUTHERN SPLENDORS
Small town of Ravello
Baroque Town of the Val di Noto
delicacies such as marzipan candies and pistachio pastries. After
enjoying an olive oil tasting session and lunch accompanied by
marsala wine at a local farmhouse, we will travel along a coastline
mostly made up of salt pans built back in roman times. overnight in
Agrigento. (B,L)
DAY 10
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MON
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AGRIGENTO
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RAGUSA
This morning enjoy a guided
tour of "The Valley of the Temples", a uneSCo World Heritage Site. one
of the main archaeological treasures of the mediterranean, this site is
immersed in a rural landscape of rare beauty characterized by the
presence of century-old olive and almond trees. Your guided walking
tour will cover about one mile in a mostly downhill direction, with stops
along the “Via Sacra” (holy pathway) to admire the Temple of
Concordia, the Temple of Herakles and ruins of the Temple of Zeus. in
the afternoon we continue to ragusa. Dinner and overnight at hotel.
(B,D)
DAY 11
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TUE
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RAGUSA
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MODICA
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NOTO
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ORTIGIA (SYRACUSE)
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TAORMINA
Today’s first stop will be in modica, a quaint historic town
and uneSCo World Heritage Site. Boasting some very fine Baroque
architecture, picturesque views and historic sites, modica is also
known for its chocolate. rich, dark and crumbly, it is produced in a
traditional method imported from the new World by Sicily's Spanish
overlords. After a chocolate tasting session in one of the most
prestigious chocolate maker, we resume our journey to noto. Part of
the “Late Baroque Towns of the Val di noto”, a uneSCo World
Heritage Site. Continue to the enchanting island of ortigia, the old town
center of Syracuse. Highlights of ortigia are the cathedral square with
its church built over an ancient Greek temple and the beautiful
promenade with its panorama over the sea and the natural bay of the
town. Dinner and overnight in Taormina. (B,D)