Experience a full-day tour of Sicily’s most breathtaking ancient, medieval, and modern monuments in Palermo and Monreale. Enjoy an orientation tour of Palermo before diving into Palermo’s famous street-food scene for lunch, sampling small arancini (fried rice balls with cheese, sometimes stuffed with meat) and other specialties. After lunch, you’ll be transported to Monreale, just outside Palermo, to explore such stunning Arabian-Norman architecture as the outstanding cathedral and Benedictine Cloister built in the 12th century.

This ancient city has a long history, originating in 8th c. BC as a Phoenician city, then passing into the hands of the Carthaginians before finally becoming a major Roman city.