The first day

Arrival and accommodation in a cottage in Notomarina ( www.notomarina.it ) a seaside resort close to Noto. 300 mt from the beach. Inside a lemons garden.

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Arrival and accommodation in a cottage in Fontane Bianche, a seaside resort close to Avola (about 10 Kmfrom Fontane Bianche) and close to Syracuse ( about 12 Km from Fontane Bianche). Introductions of the routes and short excursion in the neighbourhoods.

Dinner and after dinner with promenade.

The second day

Starts the itinerant trekking: Palazzolo Acreide (a beautiful little town of Greek origin and with baroque monuments) is the point of departure. You’ll visit the canyon and the woods of Bauly (this is the last exemplary testimony of oak-grove of plateau); in the Bauly canyon are kept three rocky villages locally known as “Dieri” (from the Arab word ad deyar  = home dug in the rock), respectively known as “Little dieri”, “Great dieri” and “Hermit’s Dieri”, rocky settlements situated on different levels. The route goes on  towards the valley bottom inside the Cassibile Rive to reach the “Case della Sorveglianza” where you’ll bivouac .

Dinner with grill food and red wine..

The third day

We’ll start again the route inside the canyon of Cava Grande del Fiume Cassibile, a canyon rich of exemplary archaeological testimonies as rocky settlements, watermill, mule-tracks etc. Everything is dipped in a fascinating and uncontaminated natural scenery.

Dinner in a typical restaurant

The fourth day

On the first travellers’ tracks (Goethe, Orwell, Jean Houel) who, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth century  visited the Sicily, we’ll travel over again some exemplary places of the Hyblean coast; in fact the stretch from Eloro to Vendicari presents either some important archaeological testimonies (for example the Greek colony of Eloro, the old tuna – fishing nets in Vendicari, the Vendicari Tower, the Byzantine basilica called “Trigona” and a lot of farm nowadays disused), or coastal peculiar places as wide strands and extended dunes, suggestive inlets and bogs behind the beach – nowadays protected areas – destination of a migratory avifauna. 

We’ll come back in the late afternoon after the sunset.

The fifth day

Excursion at Pantalica, exemplar place where interesting archaeological testimonies – an impressive pre-Greek necropolis with 5000 graves as artificial little cave, an Arab aqueduct, the prince’s palace, and place for the Byzantine cult – are immerse in a splendid natural scenery:  the canyon formed by the Anapo River and by the Calcinara Stream. In the afternoon you’ll visit the little town of Sortino in the neighbourhoods, a place where the millenary Hyblean culture show herself  in the architecture and in the gastronomy, and where’s also possible visiting a museum dedicated to the Character’s Theatre (Opera dei Pupi)

We’ll come back in the sunset.

The sixth day

The route we’ll do during the sixth day undoes between the ancient Noto ( the town before the earthquake of the 1693) and the new Noto, the Baroque Noto. The ancient town, situated on the headland Alveria, keeps the remains of the fortified town, apart from an hermitage, the Hellenistic gymnasium, the handcrafted and rocky installations for the tanning (XV° – XVI° th A.D.) and the Hebraic and paleo – Christian necropolis.

We’ll come back in the sunset.

The seventh day

Route dedicated to the visit of Syracuse, historical town, with her Greek theatre, the remains of Greek temples, the Ortigia Island, the Cathedral, the Castle Maniace, the fountain of Arethusa, the Hebraic section, the places for Christian religion, the papyrus museum, the fountain of Ciane, the local fish market and the baroque squares