Private tour Palermo and Monreale

Private tour Palermo and Monreale

A fascinating tour that will allow you to admire artistic masterpieces of rare beauty. You will go up to Monreale, by car or minivan, to visit the Cathedral of Monreale, UNESCO site, with its splendid Byzantine mosaics that extend over an area of 6000 square meters. Later we will move to Palermo to admire another UNESCO site: the Norman Palace Arab-Norman jewel embellished by the beautiful Palatine Chapel, the Capuchin catacombs and the historic Cape market.

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Stop At: Duomo di Monreale, Piazza Guglielmo II 1, 90046, Monreale, Sicily Italy

The Cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova is the main place of Catholic worship in Monreale, in the metropolitan city of Palermo, archbishop's see of the Archdiocese of Palermo.
Enjoy the view from the lookout before leaving for the heart of the city!

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Catacombe dei Cappuccini, Piazza Cappuccini 1, 90129, Palermo, Sicily Italy

The state of preservation of the countless corpses on display make the cemetery of the Convent of the Capuchin Friars, known as the Catacombs of the Capuchins of Palermo, one of the most impressive places to visit in the world.

A macabre show that highlights the uses, customs and traditions of the Palermo city society that lived from the 17th to the 19th century.


Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Cattedrale di Palermo, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 90040, Palermo, Sicily Italy

The Primatial Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Virgin Mary of the Assumption, known simply as the Cathedral Church of Palermo, is the main place of Catholic worship in the city of Palermo and archiepiscopal see of the homonymous metropolitan archdiocese.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Chiesa Inferiore della Cappella Palatina, Piazza del Parlamento, 90131, Palermo, Sicily Italy

The Palatine Chapel is a three-aisled basilica located within the architectural complex of the Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo. The church is dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Quattro Canti, Corso Vittorio Emanuelle Via Maqueda, 90100, Palermo, Sicily Italy

I Quattro Canti, or piazza Villena, or Ottagono del Sole, or Teatro del Sole, is the name of an octagonal square at the intersection of the two main roads of Palermo: the Via Maqueda and the Cassaro, today Via Vittorio Emanuele, in the middle about their length.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Teatro Massimo, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 90138, Palermo, Sicily Italy

The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele, better known as Teatro Massimo, of Palermo is the largest opera theater building in Italy, and one of the largest in Europe, third by architectural magnitude after the Opéra National de Paris and the Staatsoper of Vienna.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Mercato del Capo, Via Cappuccinelle, 90138, Palermo, Sicily Italy

The Capo market, along with other Palermo markets such as Ballarò, La Vucciria, Lattarini and the Mercato delle Pulci, is an important point of agri-food retail trade. It is a very lively and characteristic, even folkloristic, food market: the colors, the screams (vuci) of the sellers, the animation of the stalls make it an essential element of the character of the city of Palermo.

Duration: 1 hour