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One
excellent English- speaking guide that we can recommend for the region is Michele
Gallo who can organise individual and group itineraries according to the travellers'
interests.. Lonely
Planet Sicily Travel Book 2002
(pag
252) 
Michele
Gallo (011-39-360-397930, www.sicilytravel.net)
is a well-regarded tour guide available for individual hire.
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Guided
tours in and around Agrigento with
Michele Gallo* 
Personalised tours with a
qualified guide
Specially customised to suit your needs
Shore
excursions from Porto Empedocle | | | | |
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Learn
more about towns of origin in the Agrigento area. Day-trips from Agrigento
to Aragona, Bivona, Burgio, Calamonaci, Canicattì, Castrofilippo, Cattolica
Eraclea, Lucca Sicula, Montevago, Naro, Sambuca Zabut, Santa Margherita Belice,
Racalmuto, Ribera, Sciacca, Siculiana | |
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History,
personages Doric architectures, streets' layout, flora. All useful information:
opening times, guided tours, admission fees | |
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Ancient
Akragas, the city of Persephone
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A
half-day walking tour of the Valley
of the Temples, a Unesco World Heritage site. Covers the Temple of Hera,
the Temple of Concordia, the Temple
of Herakles and the Temple of Zeus
and the Sanctuary of Chtonian Deities.
See some of the best preserved Greek temples in the
world and discover the secrets behind their construction.
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San
Nicola Archeological Museum |
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This
half day tour offers a fine introduction to the spendours
of ancient Akragas and gives an insight into the life
of the Greek settlers. See the collection of Attic
pottery found in the area, ex-votoes, figurines,
statues and the giant Telamon from
the Temple of Zeus. Covers also the Church of
Saint Nicholas, the Ekklesiasterion
or city-council and the private homes in the nearby
Hellenistic- Roman Quarter.
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Historical
Centre |
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A
half-day walking tour through the densely-layered historical
centre of Agrigento.
Explore
the maze of tiny alleys, piazzas and side-streets, see
the Norman Duomo of Saint Gerlando,
the Church of Santa Maria dei Greci built
on the steps of a Greek temple and the Church
and Convent of Santo Spirito where you can taste
almond sweets made by the local Cistercian cloister nuns. |
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Luigi
Pirandello's Agrigento |
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Agrigento
is the hometown of Luigi Pirandello,
the playwright who wrote "Six characters
in search of an author", Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1934.
He
was also a novelist and a short story writer. Many of
his works are set in Agrigento and its surroundings.
The tours covers the birthplace and burial of Pirandello
in the Caos district and the locations described in
some of his most famous works (The Jar,
The Old and the Young,
The Excluded One,
The Late Mattia Pascal,One,
None, and Hundred-Thousand,
etc.)
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In
the footsteps of Daedalus and Minos: Sant'Angelo Muxaro
and Eraclea Minoa |
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Did
you know that the region of Agrigento was Daedalus'
final landing place when he flew from Crete with his
son Icarus? And that King Minos found his death here?
Follow the footsteps of Daedalus and King Minos
and learn about the Sicans, the early
inhabitants of Sicily. The tour covers the archeological
site of Heraclea Minoa at the mouth
of the Platani river and the prehistoric necropolis
of Sant'Angelo Muxaro. Drive through
the most unspoilt part of inland Sicily.
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Palma
and Licata |
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Drive
east to Palma di Montechiaro, the village
founded by an ancestor of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa,
who inherited it. See the magnificent baroque
Mother Church and the Convent
described in "The Leopard".
Continue to Licata to see the beach where
Patton's Army landed in 1943. |
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1
week in a host family in Agrigento. Language course
and cultural vacation
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