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Unspoiled Sicily & Southern Italy UNSPOILED SICILY & SOUTHERN ITALY 22 DAYS 3 & 4 night stays Tour Price Inclusions Tour Highlights THAI Airways economy class return flights ex Australia. Airport check-in assistance (Brisbane). Airport departure ITALY taxes, convenient 1 night Bangkok airport hotel stopover incl. buffet breakfast and transfers en route Pompeii • Amalfi • Ravello • Sorrento to Europe. Meet and greet and assistance during outbound flights. Airport transfers and airline check-in Polignano a Mare • Alberobello • Matera • Lecce assistance in Europe. One-way ferry Calabria (Southern Italy) to Sicily, one-way economy class flight from Catania SICILY (Sicily) to Rome. Palermo • Monreale • Mondello • Erice 19 nights in charming boutique/heritage accommodation Segesta • Cefalù • Scopello • Piazza Armerina including daily buffet breakfast, 3 course dinner (or lunch) with beverages based on typical traditional regional Mount Etna • Castelmola • Taormina • Siracusa cuisine where indicated. Ortigia • Agrigento • Sciacca • Mazara del vallo Luxury coach travel in Europe, entry fees covering Marsala • Corleone • Selinunte • Catania sightseeing and entertainment, hotel service charges city taxes, most tipping, baggage handling (1 bag pp). Services of a full-time professional tour director and local city guides. DEPARTURE SCHEDULE Ex: Brisbane Sydney Melbourne Perth Tour Price pp/twin share: AUD $14,295 Departure date: 6 May 2020 Single Supplement: AUD $1,995 Start date Rome: 8 May 2020 Finish date Rome: 27 May 2020 Land Only and Business Class pricing upon request 26 Tour Overview UNSPOILED SICILY & SOUTHERN ITALY Starting and finishing in Rome, this tour captures the scenic beauty of the Amalfi Coast, takes in the best of hidden N Puglia and southern Calabria and highlights in particular the rich cultural heritage of Sicily. Long regarded as the ‘last bastion of Italy’, haunted by its Rome reputation as poor and beholden to the mafia, Sicily insists that change has arrived. Closer to Africa than to Rome, the ITALY Polignano a Mare Mediterranean’s largest island was first colonised by the Alberobello Greeks in the 8th century. Pompeii Matera Sorrento Lecce Over time it attracted waves of invaders resulting in an Amalfi interior enriched by the remains of ancient civilisations and the survival of many old traditions. Greek temples, Roman ruins, Norman churches and Byzantine domes are all evidence of Sicily’s rich and diverse past. With a coastline of some thousand km, Sicily offers the SICILY visitor sandy beaches, sheer cliffs and a rich array of Messina Villa San Giovanni delicious local cuisine and full-bodied red wines. Palermo Cefalù Etna Taormina If you like Italy, you are simply going to fall in love with Marsala Corleone Catania Sicily, possibly still one of the best-kept secrets in Europe. Piazza Armerina Sciacca Agrigento Siracusa 27 (B/L/D) Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included where indicated DAY 1 + 2 - DEPARTURE AUSTRALIA / STOPOVER DAY 5 - RAVELLO - AMALFI Airport Stopover (1 night) Today you will enjoy a panoramic tour of the scenic coastline of the Amalfi Coast partly by bus and partly by foot, offering a relaxing day Meet with representatives of TIKI TOURS for assistance with your out. At its peak in the 11th c. Amalfi was a supreme naval power airline check-in (for Brisbane passengers). Interstate passengers and a bitter enemy of the north. The town flourished in the 9th c. will meet up at our stopover hotel. Sit back relax and enjoy a good through its connections with the Orient. The city claims it introduced flight followed by transfer to your airport hotel. Enjoy an overnight to Italy such modern wonders as paper, coffee and carpets. This 50 stay with breakfast included and access to your room all day until km stretch of coastline running from Sorrento to Salerno is one of check-out in the early evening. Europe’s most beautiful. Today we will spend time in Ravello, high above the sea, and have lunch in Amalfi. We will also view the town The 24 hours between outbound flights are at your leisure. On day of Positano with its hillside houses during a brief photo stop. Dinner 2, there is time to explore the local surrounds on a guided tour, do again at the tables of our hotel. (B/D) some shopping, visit the day spa at the hotel or simply relax with a book around the pool. TIKI TOURS will offer assistance and advice during your stay. (B/Airline in-flight service) DAY 6 - CASTEL DEL MONTE Puglia Region (4 nights) DAY 3 - ARRIVAL ROME After a good rest and a leisurely breakfast (in Italian ‘colazione’), this Amalfi Coast Region (3 nights) morning we venture further south to enter the heartland of Puglia, the region that is probably best known for its typically shaped Benvenuti! At Rome airport your tour director and coach will be ‘Trulli’ houses and strong Baroque influences. It is also one of the awaiting you at the airport for transfer to your hotel on the Amalfi nation’s largest wine regions and producer of olives, citrus fruits Coast. Upon arrival, you will enjoy a light lunch followed by hotel and vegetables. This ancient land, the heel of Italy’s boot, has some check-in. Many writers have written about the natural beauty of this of the country’s most unspoiled scenery, fascinating artistic and part of the Italian coast and the islands in the Gulf of Naples, Capri, historical sites and sandy beaches. On sea voyages to their colonies Ischia and Le Sirenuse, home of the mythical sirens, are sure to call and trading posts in the west, the ancient Greeks invariably headed you back long after. Famous for its breathtaking caves and subtropical to Apulia first, it was the shortest crossing, before filtering vegetation the charming villages attract many visitors. The afternoon southward into Sicily. En route we will enjoy a guided tour of the is at your leisure to rest or explore the local surroundings. Dinner enigmatic, octagonal Castel del Monte. A unique piece of medieval at the hotel. (L/D) military architecture, the castle is a successful blend of elements from classical antiquity, the Orient and north European Cistercian Gothic. Dinner at our hotel. (B/D) DAY 4 - POMPEII Buon giorno! In the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius lie the Roman ruins of Pompeii, buried by the eruption in 79 AD. Old Pompeii, so well- DAY 7 - ALBEROBELLO - POLIGNANO A MARE preserved for posterity, was founded in the 7th c. BC. Today you Alberobello is the town with the greatest concentration of the beehive will explore this famous site, one of Italy’s most popular tourist shaped ‘Trulli’. The origins go back to the 13th c. and possibly further. destinations, offering a great insight into the daily life of the Romans They are built on local limestone, without mortar, with a hole in the including many impressive temples, villas and bathhouses, a forum top for escaping smoke. Some are painted with mystical or religious and one of the largest existing Roman amphitheatres. The afternoon symbols, some are isolated, others are joined together with roofs on is at your leisure. Dinner (in Italian ‘cena’) is planned again at our various levels. In the afternoon, we visit the town of Polignano a Mare charming hotel. (B/D) and enjoy free time for lunch. Overlooking the Adriatic Sea, the town is perched on impressive cliffs and the well-preserved old centre is well worth a visit. Dinner at our hotel. (B/D) 28 Cefalù - Sicily DAY 8 - MATERA DAY 11 - CEFALÙ One of southern Italy’s most iconic towns and a World Heritage Site (Northern Sicily Region (3 nights) since 1993, Matera is known for its elegant Baroque churches, palaces Before we head for Palermo, we break our journey for a stop in and wide squares filled to capacity during the evening’s ‘passeggiata’ Cefalù, an attractive beachside village dominated by a large rock when the locals turn out en masse to stroll the streets. What really and the twin pyramid towers of the Cathedral offering a rare beauty sets this town apart however is the ‘sassi’, rock hewn cave dwellings inside. Cefalù, with narrow medieval streets, many good restaurants, piled atop of one another and straggling along the sides of a steep bars and shops is well worth a visit. ravine. Dinner at the hotel. (B/D) Closer to Africa than to Rome, the German poet Goethe wrote: ‘To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy DAY 9 - LECCE at all for Sicily is the clue to everything.’ Greeks, Romans, Normans, Sometimes described as the 'Florence of the South’, Lecce has a Spanish, Austrians, French and the British have all left a fascinating charming historic centre, it is a minor Baroque masterpiece and we cultural legacy on this island. Greek temples, Roman ruins, Norman will enjoy the best on offer during a guided visit. Its history goes churches and Byzantine domes are all strong evidence of Sicily’s rich back a long way, you can still see ruins of a Roman theatre and and dynamic past. amphitheatre, but the period which led to the town’s current fame was during the 17th century. Only half an hour from mainland Italy, but a world apart, the Mediterranean’s largest island has long been the ‘last bastion’ of This time of prosperity started grand developments and the Italy. At night, dinner at a nearby local restaurant. (B/D) construction of palaces and churches. These buildings adapted the fashionable Baroque style to the soft local limestone, with decorations and cherubs extravagantly covering facades and DAY 12 - PALERMO - MONDELLO - MONREALE doorways. These days, the production and sale of olive oil, wine and ceramics continues to be the mainstay of the local economy.
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