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Markets and monuments: walking tour and street food in Palermo

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Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
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Location
Palermo
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Duration
3 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 6 guests
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Language
English
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Explore Palermo's rich history on a walking tour. Visit iconic landmarks like the Teatro Massimo and Duomo. Delight in street food at Mercato del Capo, savoring local specialties.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

We will take a comfortable walk through the wonders of the historic center of Palermo and the Mercato del Capo to capture the scents and colors of the old city. You will be able to observe extraordinary places and characters and admire some of the most important monuments of the city, such as the Teatro Massimo, the Duomo (we will visit the interior), the great Fontana Pretoria, the grandiose square called "i Quattro You sing" and much more.


In the famous Mercato del Capo (of Arab origin) we will stop for about half an hour (at Dainotti's) where you can taste, some of the best local Palermo specialties. Then, taste some local specialties from Palermo. Tuck into some sfincione (dough topped with onion, bread crumbs, tomato, and oregano), panelle (fried chickpea flour), crocché (potato croquettes), arancine (rice croquettes stuffed with meat or butter), and cannolo (crunchy shell with sweet -cheese).

Refresh yourself with a drink, to close off your tour in style.


What You Get

Professional tour guides
Suggestions about food to eat during your tour
Visit to Capo market.
Museum admission fees (admission to the cathedral is included free of charge)
Hotel pick up and drop off

Good To Know

  • Appropriate clothing is required to enter the churches (no tank tops, no shorts or very short skirts)
  • Confirmation will be received within 48 hours, subject to availability;
  • Smart casual clothing and comfortable shoes are suggested;
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • A minimum of 2 people per booking is required;

What You’ll Experience

1

Capo Street Market

We will visit Il Capo, one of the three historical markets of Palermo, (the others are Ballarò and Vucciria). We will immerse ourselves in a mix of smells, flavors, scents, sounds. All the senses will be strongly stimulated along this journey into the true soul of the city. Sale of everything that exists fresh from vegetables and fruit at will to fish in infinite abundance, meats, aromas and spices.
40 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
2

Dainotti's da Arianna

Friggitoria Dainotti, the best fryer in Palermo, recently winner of the competition among the best street food in Palermo organized by the television program "Quattrorestaurants"
40 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Teatro Massimo (Pass By)

The square is home to the largest opera house in Italy, an extraordinary neoclassical building inside which hovers a mysterious ghost ..... of the opera.
3

Mura, Bastione e Porta Carini

Ancient walls from the first half of the 16th century and Porta Carini through which you enter the Capo market
10 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
4

Cattedrale di Palermo

Masterpiece of Arab-Norman art built in 1185. It contains the royal tombs, the chapel of Santa Rosalia, an extraordinary Sundial.
20 minutesAdmission Ticket Included
5

Piazza Olivella

The scenic square with the baroque church of Sant'Ignazio and the archaeological museum among the most important in Italy
15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
6

Fontana della Vergogna

It is one of the symbols of the Sicilian capital, considered one of the most beautiful Italian fountains. It is made up of 48 statues of white Carrara marble, sculpted in full Renaissance by Tuscan sculptors. Purchased in 1573 by the Palermitan Senate it will be nicknamed by the Palermitans, since then, the Fountain of Shame, for a series of numerous reasons that will be told during the tour.
10 minutesAdmission Ticket Included
7

Quattro Canti

I Quattro Canti, piazza Villena, (also called Ottagono del Sole, or Teatro del Sole) is the name of an extraordinary and scenic octagonal square built in the early 1600s at the intersection of the two main roads of Palermo: via Maqueda and the Cassaro, (today Via Vittorio Emanuele) at about half of their length. It is the center of the ancient city.
10 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Via Vittorio Emanuele (Pass By)

The ancient Cassaro, the oldest street in Palermo with its Palaces, Churches, Convents
8

Teatro dell'Opera dei Pupi

Teatro dell'Opera dei Pupi by Mimmo Cuticchio, a typical show from Palermo dating back to 1800. Unesco Heritage
10 minutesAdmission Ticket Not Included

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Piazza Olivella 1, Piazza Olivella, Palermo Città metropolitana di Palermo Sicilia, Italy, IT, 90133

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In front of the "A. Salinas" Archaeological Museum at 10:30
End Point

Quattro Canti, Piazza Vigliena, Palermo Città metropolitana di Palermo Sicilia, Italy, IT, 90133

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Bar Dainotti, where we can taste the best Cannolo in the city

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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