INSIDE THE ARISTOCRACY : CATANIA and FIUMEFREDDO

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  Meet our driver guide . Departure for Catania, the second biggest town in Sicily, a true lively town with a Baroque-style charm. Visit of its most important monuments and to its colourful fish-market. Catania radiates a strange romantic beauty with its broad boulevards and spacious squares, grandiose palaces, and great cathedrals, that still striking in their black and white colors, lava and limestone, crumbling plaster, and marble columns. It was repeatedly destroyed over the centuries by eruptions and earthquakes. In 1693 a massive earthquake leveled much of the city, but the people of Catania created an even better city Walking visit and stop in Palazzo Biscari the most magnificent private building in Catania, is unique in terms of structure, outlay and decoration. We will be received by Baron Moncada. Lunch at leisure.

  4 hours • Admission ticket free
• 2

  Depart for Fiumefreddo, with a visit of Castello degli Schiavi, the house of DON CORLEONE. This beautiful looking residence (left) was built in 1700 as a country house for the Nobility. The house was location for several scenes throughout the Godfather films including the un-intentional murder of Apollonia in The Godfather and also the brutal revenge killing of Don Ciccio, by Vito Corleone in Godfather part II. Walk into the castle and meet the owner Mr Platania that will let you introduce into the aim of the film. End of our services

  2 hours • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible

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