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+++ snow, fi sh, almond trees and citrus fruit +++ Catania, the black daughter of the Etna +++ from Baroque to microY electronics +++ Normans looking for the sun +++ Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans+++ Pantalica, Syracuse, Noto Antica +++ To Dionysos, the tyrant, snuck Möros with a hidden dagger. (Friedrich Schiller) +++ Rough mountains and deep gorges +++ riding the Etna train deeper into the country on a narrow track +++ Then – answered the ambassador – Your Majesty will doubtlessly be in Sicily in time for dinner. +++ from snow to the seal, through lava fi elds and vineyards +++ Taormina, Antique architecture and outstanding bathing at the base of the Monte Tauro +++

Our tour through the East of Sicily in 7 days, up to 14 persons. 3 double overnight-stays. Messina Hotels ***** Reggio Gastronomy ***** ! Calabria Culture ***** ! Nature **** Randazzo Parco dell‘Etna Bronte Taormina Monte Travel dates 2020 Etna ISZ1: Saturday, 28mar-2020 until Saturday, 04-apr-2020 Paternò ISZ2: Saturday, 04-apr-2020 until Saturday, 11-apr-2020 Catania ISZ3: Saturday, 03-oct-2020 until Saturday, 10-oct-2020 ISZ4: Saturday, 10-oct-2020 until Saturday, 17-oct-2020 by eBike by bus or train

Traveling price 2020 Vizzini Price per person in the DR for 7 nights with half-board, eBike, Syrakus entrance free, transfers, guided tours: € 1970 Pantalica Single-room surcharge: € 460 Noto Does not include lunch, drinks and your personal expenses Ragusa Modica as well as travelling there and back. Scicli 10 km

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Flight Flights to/from Catania booked by you or by pedelon at your request. Directly from Munich and very good transfer connections from all larger German cities. Target airport Catania from/to Munich (as available): 460 € Flights from other German airports or flights from airports in other countries on request.

Car Direct motorway connection to Catania and ferries from Civitaveccia, Naples and Reggio Calabria. From Munich it’s an 18 hours’ trip (including ferry). you can leave your car at the Catania airport during the bicycle tour (€ 60/week).

Train From Munich you can reach Catania by train (also overnight train) in at least 21 hours with with two transfers.

Participation conditions The arrangement contains the above services. Our terms and conditions apply.

With your booking confirmation, you will receive the “pedelon travel information”, which contains useful notes on travelling to Catania and other advice around your trip.

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Discover the pearl of Southern Italy by eBike, see evergreen mountains, valleys withSICILY lush vegetation, black volcanoes and mostly the sea, with its incredible colors and its clear floods, making Sicily one of the most beautiful islands in the world. The magic is enriched by many archaeological finds that report on the antique origins of Trinakria. Any number of building monuments are silent witnesses of the time of epochs of great art and rich culture. Best hotels in country estates and palaces, great cuisine on the largest island of Italy. Discover Sicily at its best with pedelon; enjoy a comfor- table bicycle tour full of authenticity and surprises.

The rooms in the „Hotel Romano House Luxury Hotel“ are avai- 1st day, Sunday: Catania – Modica, 60 km lable from 2 PM onwards. The recently renovated four-star hotel The first kilometers with heavy traffic will be bridged by bus. After is centrally located in the old town. It is a skillful mix of historical the short drive, you will first receive your pedelon eBike in cozy building substance from the 17th century and new design. From Vizzini. You will continue across calm streets in a slight rise up to Monterosso Almo. This is particularly fun on eBikes. You will con- tinue by bike through the picturesque landscape past the pretty artificial lake S.Rossalia, to Ragusa. Where you will arrive late in the afternoon. The small town on a hill is known for its Sicilian Ba- roque. The pedelon partner hotel “Torre Don Virgilio” is an elegant country estate in the Val di Noto with comfortable and tastefully furnished rooms (double overnight stay). here, you can reach the sights of the black town on foot easily. Use of lava stone as construction material can be seen in palaces, residences, churches, road paving and at the harbor of Catania. The antique theatre and the Roman amphitheater are also made of black stone. After the eruption in 1669 and the disastrous earthquake of 1693, Catania was rebuilt in the Baroque style of the 18th century. It has hardly changed since. A tour of the town will show you the most beautiful corners and teach you lots of interesting things about the impressive town at the base of the After a short ride into the picturesque, World Heritage listed old Etna. Meet in the hotel hall at 5:30 PM. Enjoy your dinner in the town of Ragusa, Marcello serves in his Ristorante “4Gatti” typical “Ristorante Me Cumpari Turiddu” with local specialties, located in regional Ragusan specialties. the immediate vicinity.

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2nd day, Monday: Modica – Scicli – Donnafugata – 4th day, Wednesday: Siracusa – Pantalica und zurück, Modica, 65 km 45 km From Modica, the ride is down idyllic side roads slightly downhill Today‘s cycling section starts in pretty Buscemi after a short bus towards Scicli, where you will arrive in the morning. Visiting the ride. Your eBikes will take you to Càssaro on side roads with little town that was destroyed by an earthquake in 1693 impressively traffic and between small, idyllic hills. A downhill ride across 15 shows the successful reconstruction in the style of Sicilian Ba- kilometers will take you to the forge of the Anapo river in several roque. Enjoy a Cappuccino on the Piazza before the city hall, re- serpentines. The bicycle path meanders through the nature pre- serve „Valle dell´Anapo“ on the old train route and through a few short tunnels to just before Sortino. There, the necropolises of Pantàlica with approx. 5000 chamber graves are located. They are only accessible by foot in the slopes above the river. They are

miniscent of „Commissario Montalbano“, the famous novel hero of Andrea Camilleri, who according to the author never has his important documents of early settlement and used to be a place espresso anywhere else. Always close to the sea, this leg will lead where the Sicans, the Sicilian indigenous people, withdrew to. across Donnalucata and to Maritima di Ragusa, before continuing After a lunch break in a wonderful Agriturismo the bicycle path along the edge of a nature preserve to Punta Secca, where the goes across 20 picturesque kilometers to Floridia at the fringes of beach near the Commissario Villa invites you to take a break. A Syracuse. To avoid the traffic in town, we recommend taking the slight climb to the Castello di Donnafugata ends today‘s cycling taxi for the last kilometers to the hotel. After a sightseeing through trip. A bus will take you back to the hotel in half an hour, where the alleys of Ortigia, we will meet at one of the best restaurants you can dine in style in the restaurant today. in town, where Stefano will present a subtle interpretation of tra- ditional sicilian dishes. 3rd day, Tuesday: Modica – Noto – Siracusa, 55 km Today’s stage starts in front of the hotel and takes us in the di- 5th day, Thursday: Siracusa – Taormina (around the Etna), rection of San Giacomo. Thanks to the batteries of the bike, the 51 km height difference to be overcome is a breeze. On the nearly aban- After breakfast, the bus will take you to Paternò in about an hour. doned high plateau, the cyclists will find a wonderful section of lo- From there, you will round the Etna with the famous Ferrovia Cir- nesome side streets crossing olive groves until lunchtime at Noto cumetnea. It is a memorable experience of overwhelming nature Antica, another pearl of Sicilian Baroque. After a short descent, and nostalgic railway technology, past Bronte, which is famous for we reach Noto, another gem of the Sicilian Baroque, waiting with „the most beautiful balconies in the world”, as it is said. Noto was rebuilt in 1693 after an earthquake had completely destroyed the

the supposedly „best pistaccios in the world“.From Maletto, you will continue by bike to Randazzo, where you will visit the vineyard of Giuseppe Russo. Its outstanding and organically grown Etna town. From Noto, you will reach Syracuse by taxi in about half an wines will accompany our picnic in the vineyards. The remaining hour. In this town, which is rich with cultural monuments, the „Ho- kilometers of this day start out across slightly hilly terrain to the tel Gutkowski“ will wait for its guests right by the sea. For dinner „Gole di Alcàntara“, a nature park in the middle of a spectacular Dario invites us to his nearby trattoria “Spizzuliamu“. gorge cut into the basalt stone by the Alcàntara river. To avoid the

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6th day, Friday: Taormina – Etna (from the crater’s edge to the sea!), 53 km After an extraordinary breakfast on the sun terrace with a view of the sea, the bus will take you to the Rifugio La Sapienza, about halfway up the Etna at a height of 1986 meters. After a brief hike around the Silvestri side crater, which extinguished 100 ye- ars ago, you will have a spectacular view in all directions. After a brief downhill ride, you will soon reach Zafferana. In Milo, a picnic on the sun terrace with a view of the Ionian sea will top off this day. The remaining bicycle kilometers of the trip will lead through slightly hilly country with chestnut and oak forests before turning

down to the sea across the sleepy Presa. At the beach of Marina di Cottone, you can top off this outstanding bicycle section with a glass of white wine or a jump into the Ionian sea. Back in the „Hotel Villa Schuler“, you will have a little time left before meeting for the last shared dinner in nearby Ristorante “Villa Zuccharo“. The patron will take care of a pleasant end to this eBike tour rich in experiences with an outstanding fish menu.

7th day, Saturday: Taormina – Catania After the city tour, where the pedelon guests are introduced to the old town with its ancient theater, the travel ends.

Of course, the guide will be happy to arrange for further help, whether with the transfer to the airport of Catania, a return jour- ney to the start hotel „Romano House Luxury Hotel“ or also the procurement of a rental care. The latter is particularly suitable for an additional holiday, the tariffs are quite cheap in Sicily.

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