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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 | |
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. |
| San
Nicola Archeological Museum | |
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. |
| Inspector
Montalbano tour. From Montelusa to Vigata | | On
the trail of inspector Montalbano and other Camilleri's characters. Available
as a shore excursion or day trip from Sicily tour guides and drivers | | Historical
Centre: Old Girgenti- historic Agrigento tour | | 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. | | Luigi
Pirandello's Girgenti | |
Agrigento
(Girgenti until 1927) 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 tour 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.) | | In
the footsteps of Daedalus and Minos: Sant'Angelo Muxaro and Eraclea Minoa |
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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. |
| Palma
and Licata | | 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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