BEST OF SICILY IN ONE DAY TOUR+TASTING

Pick up at the pier or other place you arrive. Once on board of the AC vehicle, we take the highway Messina/Catania (exit Giarre). We leave the sea level and start to climb towards the summit of the volcano. Before we reach our destination we cross the Etna National Park (Unesco Patrimony since 2013) and some Sicilian villages (Santa Venerina and Zafferana – stop for typical sicilian products tasting in Zafferana - included), then we get to the craters Silvestri (7000 ft.), it is amazing the landscape of the the big craters, where you can admire the large lava flows creates from past eruptions. On the road we enjoy the great vineyards of Etna and the farms overlooking the coast of Catania. Then we leave Etna and we drive to Taormina, the ancient greek colony, with its amazing pedestrian path (the ancient roman "valeria" road), the greek theatre, the monuments, the shops, the famous restaurants and pubs and more else. You spend in Taormina around 2 hours, as you like, then we drive to the villages where the movie the Godfather has been filmed. We stop in Savoca, an amazing village nsert in the list of the mostbeautiful italian villages, very famous because it was the location of F.F. Coppola "godfather" and also for its marvelous ancient monuments. We will visit the Cathedral, the medieval area and the famous Bar Vitelli, than we stop for the almond wine tasting (included). After visiting the godfather village we get the highway in order to drive back to Messina. In Messina we will visit the city center, the amazing cathedral, the monuments and the famous view point Cristo Re, from where we can admire the Strait of Messina and the harbour. Dropp off latest 1 hr before your ship departure. If we have time, during our tour in Taormina, we will moreover have a quick visit of the village of Castelmola (450 mt.). Castelmola is a small and enchanting village just above Taormina, with an amazing landscape and a great view of Mount Etna (3.330 mt. - 11.000 ft. - the highest volcano in Europe), and wonderful landscape of Giardini-Naxos bay. We spend here few time to visit the places, take our lunch in a panoramic reastaurant (NOT INCLUDED) and take pictures of the bay of Giardini Naxos, we moreover vist the ancjent medieval fortress and the little city center, then we drive 5 min down to Taormina.