Easter week in Sicily April 12 to 22 2025. Tour highlights: Taormina, Etna, Siracusa, Ragusa. Processions, Street Bands, Mystery Play, top Wines.

Highlights • Taormina and Giardini Naxos. • Etna volcano, the craters tour • Alcantara, the pistacchio of Bronte, the best wineries • Syracuse, Ortygia and the archeological Neapolis • The Pantalica canyon, ancient necropolis • The Baroque cities of the Hyblean Plateaux, Modica and Ragusa • Easter celebrations in Taormina, Ferla, Ispica, Ragusa and Modica • Best wine tasting of the Etna, Eloro , Cerasuolo, and Hyblean DOC wine zones The best chance for an early holiday in the warmer part of Italy, . You have though of Sicily, the more exotic Italian region, but you have some doubts? Are you wonder what there is to visit, eat and drink there? Sicily is a trove on unique flavours, of an unique Mediterranean cuisine, and the quality of its great wines is improving year by year.. When it is better to go? In the spring, of course, when the rest of Italy is still pretty cool, here you find mild wheather and spring blooming. Even betterto be there during the Holy Week, and join the unique Easter celebrations? You will explore the coast from the Messina straight to the southernmost point of Europe, and see many of teh more beautiful Sicilian landscapes, RATES. € for 11 days 10 nights Lodging in 4 stars hotels or equivalent country resorts Cost starting from EU 4.000 /person with min 4 people Contact us for custom made program and quote.

Primitivo of Manduria and Gioia del Colle, Salice salentino and Negroamaro, Alezio rosé, Aglianico

Langhe, Turin, Alba, Monferrato, Barolo, Arnèis, Barbaresco, Barbera, Moscato

Best wines: Amarone, Valpolicella, Ripasso, Bardolino, Franciacorta, Breganze, Soave, and the finest Cabs and Merlots.

• PROSECCO. Conegliano and Valdobbiadene are the original Prosecco country. Asolo is a small artistic town. The Venetian Villa Maser, winery and museum. • VICENZA and Padova. COLLI EUGANEI, and Breganze wines. Merlots, and whites. The world's best Grappa in Bassano. • GARDA LAKE shores. Fresh, gentle wines of Bardolino, Lugana and Custoza. The classic method spumante from Franciacorta. • VERONA. The finest Soave, the classic Valpolicella, AMARONE mythical, powerful Veneto wine. The most scenic, top level ITALIAN OPERA at the Roman Arena, in Verona July and August only.

Arena di Verona Opera Festival. Valpolicella, Amarone, Soave, Prosecco and Sudtyroler Weinstrasse Wines.

CLASSIC ITALIAN OPERA PERFORMACES, TOP VENETO WINES Verona, offers the most classic and scenic Opera fastival, between June and August,  in the open air, in the amazing Roman theathre, the Arena. We took advantage of the summer, to combine our classic Veneto wine tour with the Opera festival.  If wine is an icon of the Italian lifestyle, well, the Opera shows teh essential of the Italian feel for drama, comedy, and their liberating power! So, we spent three days in Verona, enjoying the Aida, and the Nabucco,  while visiting  the Valpolicella, the Soave Hills, and Bardolino on the Garda lake. Then we moved north to the Sudtyroler Weinstrasse, tasting their elegant wines.  Thirds, we crossed the Dolomites,  lodging in Cortina, and  visited Sass Pordoi,  the remains of the Marmolada glacier, the unmissable Lavaredo Three Peaks. In the end, we reached the Valdobbiadene green hills, we lodged in majestic Castelbrando, a our tour came to an end in the Prosecco wine country.

The Wines of the Greeks: Aglianico, Falanghina, Fiano, Greco, Taurasi, Falerno del Massico

Highlights: Sannio Aglianico and Taurasi wines vineyards, Paestum Greek temples, Amalfi and Ravello, Pompei and the Vesuvius, Capri island daytrip. Flegrean fields and Naples, great melting pot of the old world.

8 Days of nature & culture, wine & cuisine, From € 4,000 with 4 people, 3-4* lodging.

CLASSIC TUSCANY FOOD & WINE TOUR Picture-perfect, landscapes, art and history, great wines and cuisine in the unmissable heart of Tuscany. Discover a dream-land of castles, abbeys, Medieval hilltop towns where history is alive. Try Vino Nobile, Brunello, and Chianti Classico. Taste - and learn to cook if you wish - the celebrated Tuscan cuisine. Enjoy a full-immersion in all what creates the lifestyle and magic of Tuscany. Contact us for details: tailor made program and price. Days 1-4 CRETE and VALDORCIA. Visit the Crete rolling hills, taste Vino Nobile in Montepulciano, and Brunello wine in Montalcino, see tiny Pienza, and Renaissance frescoes in a majestic abbey. Explore and shop in the medieval Siena, see il Campo and the Duomo. Days 4-8 CHIANTI HILLS and SAN. GIMIGNANO Explore the Chianti hills, largest wine zone in Italy. Near Castellina see the higher hills, atmospheric castles and Etruscan tombs. Travel the picturesque Florentine Chianti, with the famous stone homes, and Renaissance villas. Taste Chianti Classico in two great estates. Visit San Gimignano, town of the medieval stone towers and of the Vernaccia white wine.