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Ideal for:
Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5
Key features:
English speaking guides throughout your tour. Top Tip:
Enjoy a traditional Foklore evening.
English speaking guides throughout your tour. Top Tip:
Enjoy a traditional Foklore evening.
School & College Tours to Sicily
Sicily is a unique destination with a long history of invasion and conquest, which has resulted in a mixed shared heritage of Greek, Arab, Roman and Norman influences visible in the island’s architecture, landscape and culture. The largest region of Italy, Sicily’s terrain is mainly hilly and features Europe’s highest and most active volcano, Mount Etna. Palermo is the Sicilian regional capital and the fifth largest city in Italy. A visit to this extraordinary island is an educational experience that will not be easily forgotten!
Top 5 Sicily Excursions
- Palermo - Capital and main port of Sicily. Founded by the Phoenicians, captured by the Romans and then ruled by the Byzantines.
- Palazzo dei Normanni - The palace contains the Cappella Palatina, by far the best example of the so-called Arab-Norman-Byzantine style that prevailed in the 12th-century Sicily.
- Segesta - Greek Theatre and Doric Temple.
- Regional Archeological Museum - Spread over several buildings, the oldest from the 13th century, the museum's collection includes major Sicilian finds from the Phoenician, Punic, Greek, Roman, and Saracen periods, with several noteworthy treasures from Egypt.
- Valley of the Temples in Agrigento - A UNESCO World Heritage site. Of the ten original Temples built in the late 6th and 5th Centuries B.C. parts of nine are visible.
