Taormina and Castelmola (Tour 1)

Messina, Catania, Taormina, Giardini Naxos, Palermo, Trapani, Milazzo, Siracusa, Ragusa

Castelmola-Taormina-Messina Tour (all pedestrian area)

The tour will start picking you up from the dock or other places you arrive. We get the highway to Taormina, from where we will drive up to the village of Castelmola (450 mt.). Castelmola is a small and enchanting village just above Taormina, with an amazing landscape and a great view of Mount Etna (3.330 mt. - 11.000 ft. - the highest volcano in Europe), and wonderful landscape of Giardini-Naxos bay. We spend here few time to visit the places, then we drive 5 min down to Taormina, the ancient greek colony, with its amazing pedestrian path (the ancient roman "valeria" road), the greek theatre, the monuments, the shops, the famous restaurants and pubs and more else. You spend in Taormina 1 or 2 hours, as you like, then we drive back to Messina (or Catania) for a quick city tour. In Messina we will see a church with bronze statues (King Christ church) and also a viewpoint, that's one of the oldest fortress in Messina, from which to see the straight and the port of Messina, and take pictures of it. The tour will end at the cathedral of Messina with its very particular and spectacular astronomical clock (the biggest in the world). In Catania we will visit the baroque city center, with its amazing cathedral. Then we will drive you to the dock or others places you prefer, in time for departure.