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Overview

Enjoy and taste the street food in the old markets of Palermo observing people, products, colors and characters from another time. The smells and the flavors will accompany you during three unforgettable hours during which you will see also the Cathedral of Palermo

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Only for cruise passenger. It is at 10:00a.m. just outside the cruise terminal If the ship arrives at 9.00am or earlier, we meet the cruise passenger cruise at 10.00. If the ship arrive later, please contact us to ask a different pick-up hour.

End Point

End point

The tour ends at 1.30 pm at the Bar Ruvolo in via Maqueda, 50 meters far from the Quattro Canti and 20 minutes far from the port.

Language Offered

English-GUIDE

Italian-GUIDE

Itinerary

1. Teatro dell'Opera dei Pupi

Puppet opera is a particular type of puppet theatre, which emerged in southern Italy and particularly in Sicily in the early 1800s, is Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Duration: 10 mins

2. Teatro Massimo

It is the largest Opera House in Italy, the third one in Europe. It was built in 1875 and its history is full of legends.

Duration: 15 mins

3. Capo Street Market

The best street food market in Palermo

Duration: 30 mins

4. Dainotti's da Arianna

The best street food shop (friggitoria) in the old center of Palermo.

Duration: 45 mins

5. Via Beati Paoli

Beati Paoli is the name of a secretive sect thought to have existed in medieval Sicily. The sect, as described by the author Luigi Natoli in his historic novel I Beati Paoli. Whereas the novel is fictitious, Sicily's history bears some evidence that the Beati Paoli actually existed.

Duration: 10 mins

6. Palermo Cathedral

The Cathedral of Palermo is the most important monument of the “Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedrals of Cefalù and Monreale” site inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO on 2015. The Cathedral of Palermo was founded by Gualtiero Offamilio, archbishop of the town from 1169 to 1190. It was a mosque in Islamic times and converted into a cathedral church by Roberto the Guiscardo after the conquest of Palermo. Its exclusive elements are the inlays and the architectural and sculptural plastic that reflects the penetration of Romanic art and the first Gothic decorative taste in Sicily.

Duration: 20 mins

7. Cassaro Alto

It is the most ancient street of Palermo. From the 16th century the street also named Via Toledo. After the unification of Italy, it was renamed Via Vittorio Emanuele II, but the old name is still in use.

Duration: 15 mins

8. Quattro Canti

Quattro Canti, or Vigliena square, is the name of the octagonal square in the intersection between the two most important streets in Palermo: via Maqueda and Cassaro (corso Vittorio Emanuele). Ancients sources refers about it as “Octagon” or “Sun’s Theatre”, because during the daylight almost one of the façades is lighten by the sun. The “Four Corners” were realized from 1609 until 1620. The shape of the square is an octagon and it’s placed in the middle of the ancient city as a perfect point of connection between the four most important districts of that period which are: Kalsa, La Loggia, Capo e Albergheria. The four façades of the buildings have four different levels. In the lowest one it is possible to see the fountains as the symbols of the four old Palermo’s main rivers: Oreto, Kemonia, Pannaria, Papireto; in the next level are shown the allegories of the four seasons represented by Eolo, Venus, Cerere and Bacchus; the middle part is decorated by the statues of Carlo V, Filippo II, Filippo III, Filippo IV; and in the last order there are the illustration of the four saints of Palermo before the arrival of Saint Rosalia (1624): Agata, Ninfa, Oliva e Cristina.

Duration: 10 mins

Inclusion

Local guide

Visit of the Palermo Cathedral

Pick up at 10:00 am to the port for cruise passengers. (Please send a message to the tour guide).

Suggestions about more attractions to visit in Palermo or about more food to eat.

Food tasting

Drink (water, beer or coca cola)

Exclusion

Souvenir photos (available to purchase)

Drop off to the port

Cancellation Policy

Refundable tickets

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

100% refund if cancelled 1+ days before the start date
0% refund if cancelled less than 1 day(s) before the start date

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

Transportation options are wheelchair accessible

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Wheelchair accessible: please, when you book the tour communicate there is a partecipant with wheelchair

Children must be accompanied by an adult

Free Child applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults (2 adults with 2 free child maximum).

If you are solo traveller contact us to know if there is a tour already organized.

If you want gluten free food, please ask us 24 hour before.

If you want vegetarian Street food, please us us when you reserve the tour

Supplied by Cavallaro Fabrizio

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Overview

Meeting and Pickup

End Point

Language Offered

Itinerary

1. Teatro dell'Opera dei Pupi

2. Teatro Massimo

3. Capo Street Market

4. Dainotti's da Arianna

5. Via Beati Paoli

6. Palermo Cathedral

7. Cassaro Alto

8. Quattro Canti

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Additional Info

Reviews

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