Pack your bags for 10 days in Sicily!
October 17-27, 2027
10 DAYS IN Sicily
10/17/27 – 10/27/27
*12 person maximum
CITIES YOU’LL VISIT:
Palermo, Calascibetta, Siracusa, Modica, Frigintini, Niscemi, Castelvetrano, Trapani, Erice, Marsala, Paceco
ARTISAN PRODUCERS:
ceramics, cheese, chocolate, bread, wine, salt, olive oil
HIGHLIGHTS:
See the making of Sicilian sheep’s milk cheeses from farm to table. Visit a Slow Food Presidium artisan baker and enjoy a tasting lunch. See production of Italian majolica ceramics. Explore the Norman and Arabic history of Palermo with an English-speaking tour guide. Visit the oldest chocolate factory in Sicily. Dine in traditional restaurants where you will sample specialities of the region. 4-star hotels, cooking class, shopping, eating and drinking!
MEALS INCLUDED:
Breakfast Daily
7 Lunches
6 Dinners
$9,000 per person
Taste the New Olive Oil!
Travel with chef Nancy Kelly and learn about Sicilian culture and history through the food. A very exclusive, luxurious experience where you can discover the authentic side of Italy as a native. The tour includes: guided city tours, visits with food producers, a cooking class, chocolate experience, tasting meals and much more. Limited number of places available!
Our tour includes private bus transportation, luxury 4-star hotel stays, gourmet meals, dedicated concierge service, English-speaking tour guides, free time for shopping and exploration, and the chance to experience the cuisine of this unique Italian region and go behind the scenes to see and taste the foods of this region at their source.
Itinerary
Sunday 17 October: Palermo
Your Sicilian journey begins in Palermo, a city where Arab domes, Norman chapels and Baroque façades share the same skyline. After a private transfer and a quiet settling-in at Palazzo Liberty, the evening opens with a welcome dinner at Cortile Pantelleria. It is a graceful introduction to island cooking, where the generosity of the table sets the tone for everything to come.
Monday 18 October: Palermo
Palermo’s layered history comes to life on a guided tour of its Norman and Arab heritage, ending among the color and clamor of a local market. Lunch is a Palermo rite of passage: street food at Friggitoria Sicula, humble in origin and deeply satisfying. The evening is yours, free to choose a table of your own in a city rich with many options.
Tuesday 19 October: Palermo
Begin the day with craftsmanship at the Tre Erre ceramic workshop, where Sicily’s tradition of hand-painted tableware is kept alive. Take the afternoon at your own pace before dinner at Locale, a refined address for savoring contemporary Sicilian cooking.
Wednesday 20 October: Palermo to Calascibetta to Siracusa
Leave the coast behind for the quiet interior of the island and a tasting lunch at Caseari Di Venti, a cheese producer in Calascibetta. Here you can taste the pastoral side of Sicily, where milk, season and patience shape what reaches the plate. By late afternoon you arrive in Siracusa and settle into the Caportigia Boutique Hotel, with the evening left open to explore.
Thursday 21 October: Siracusa
A private guided tour unveils Siracusa, once among the great cities of the ancient Mediterranean, where Greek and Roman antiquity meets honey-colored Baroque. Lunch at Aglae Storie di Sapori, whose name promises “stories of flavors”, is an unhurried midday pleasure. The afternoon and evening are yours to wander and dine as you wish.
Friday 22 October: Siracusa to Modica, Frigintini and Niscemi
This is a day for the sweet-toothed connoisseur. At Antica Dolceria Bonajuto in Modica, one of Sicily’s oldest chocolate houses, you will taste the island’s celebrated chocolate, made in a slow tradition that gives it a distinctive texture. Lunch at Le Magnolie in Frigintini follows with a chocolate-inspired menu, before you arrive at the Feudi del Pisciotto Wine Relais. A visit to the estate’s winery precedes a tasting dinner, an evening of fine wines in a vineyard setting.
Saturday 23 October: Niscemi to Castelvetrano to Trapani
In Castelvetrano, Panificio Rizzo introduces you to pane nero, the dark loaf recognized as a Slow Food Presidium. It is tasted at a lunch that celebrates bread as an expression of place. You then continue to Trapani and the Palazzo Gatto Art Hotel & Spa, where dinner at Osteria Il Moro rounds off the day with local flavors.
Sunday 24 October: Trapani and Marsala
A guided visit to the salt flats and museum of Marsala reveals one of Sicily’s oldest harvests, taken from shallow pans beside the sea. From there you move to Baglio Donna Franca, home of Vini Ansaldi, for a visit and tasting lunch that pairs the setting with the wines of the region. The afternoon and evening are free in Trapani.
Monday 25 October: Trapani and Erice
Ascend to Erice, a medieval hilltop village of stone lanes and sweeping views, for a leisurely morning and a lunch of your choosing. Returning to Trapani, you step into the kitchen for a hands-on cooking class guided by a professional chef and his team. The evening ends where all good cooking does, at the table, enjoying the dishes you prepared yourselves.
Tuesday 26 October: Trapani, Paceco and Palermo
Your final full day begins at Porti Calazzo – Antico Baglio in Paceco, an extra-virgin olive oil producer, where a visit and tasting lunch celebrates what Sicilian groves yield. You then return to Palermo and Palazzo Liberty. A farewell group dinner at Enosteria Sicula brings the journey full circle, with a last toast to the island.
Wednesday 27 October: Palermo
After a final breakfast at Palazzo Liberty, a private transfer takes you to Palermo Airport, leaving you with the flavors, wines and landscapes of Sicily.
Your Host
Nancy and her guests will be joined by guide and co-owner of aTTavola, Gioacchino Passalacqua, an artisanal Italian food exporter, gastronome and native Sicilian who divides his time between Sicily, Italy and New York. As a native Mediterranean, Gioacchino has developed relationships with food producers, restaurateurs, olive oil companies, chocolatiers, vintners and confectioners.
Gioacchino has a keen sense of quality foods and wines which he passionately shares through his unique tours, tastings, and products. You’ll be pleased to know, every one of our guests has rated him a 5 star tour guide!