Full Day Tour to Monreale and Palermo from Palermo Port

Today you are greeted at Palermo port and driven to Monreale to see with your expert Guide where the Arab-Norman art and architecture reached the pinnacle of its glory with the Dome (Admission fee: not included). Launched in 1174 by William II, it represents the scenes from the Old and New Testaments all in golden mosaics.

Later we will drive back to Palermo to start the walking tour which can be adapted to include as much as possible having the opportunity to choose according with the guide a good panoramic point of the main highlights.

Explore a large open air street market (Capo or Ballarò) that captures the flavor of Palermo’s Saracen Arab past. Enjoy a local street food tasting inside the market. Then continue by seeing “four corners” that converge Palermo at a quartet of baroque palaces left over from the heyday of Spanish rule dating from 1560, Piazza Pretoria and Via Maqueda. Explore also Piazza Marina where you can choose to visit Palazzo Chiaramonte and Palazzo Mirto (Admission fee: not included)

At the end of the tour the drop-off will be at Palermo port.