A full day: Bagheria, Cefalù & Its Surrounding area
(Pick up from Palermo port)

Today we will follow the Northern Coast of Sicily to the beautiful Town of Cefalù and its beautiful surrounding area with our local expert driver.
We begin this tour with the stop visit at the small village of Bagheria and visit the most unusual built by the Prince of Palagonia who was fascinated with monsters and mirrors. This famous villa, built in the 1700, is very similar to the Palladio's Villa in Venetobut with its original touch of Mediterranean style.
We will continue driving to Cefalù, a charming unspoiled village with winding, narrow, medieval streets and delightful restaurants overlooking a rocky coast. It is dominated by a huge megalithic rock known as "La Rocca" - once the site of a Temple of Diane and one of the finest Norman-Arab-Byzantine Cathedrals. The Duomo begun in 1131 by Roger II was intended as the principal religious seat in Sicily. Though it failed to fulfill this function, the building's magnificence has never been eclipsed.
Its fine mosaics (1148), which feature an image of Christ Pantocrator in the apse, are often celebrated as the purest Byzantine works of art on Sicilian soil.
Also of interest is the museum "Mandralisca" which hold an "Antonello da Messina" painting and a collection of coins, ceramics, vases, minerals and shells.

OTHER TOURS:

A Full Day Sicilian exploring Palermo and its surrounding area
The Hinterland of Palermo: Corleone
A full day exploring the charming Erice & Segesta
A full day to the Agrigento's Valley of the Temples