the travel destination Sicily

pedelon travels by eBike
SICILY
+++ snow, fish, almond trees and citrus fruit +++ Catania, the black daughter of the Etna +++ from Baroque to micro electronics +++
Normans looking for the sun +++ Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans+++ Pantalica, Syracuse, Noto Antica +++ To Dionysos, the tyrant,
snuck Möros with a hidden dagger. (Friedrich Schiller) +++ Rough mountains and deep gorges +++ riding the Etna train deeper into
the country on a narrow track +++ Then – answered the ambassador - Your Majesty will doubtlessly be in Sicily in time for dinner. +++
from snow to the seal, through lava fields and vineyards +++ Taormina, Antique architecture and outstanding bathing at the base of the
Monte Tauro +++
Our tour through the East of Sicily in 7 days, up to 14 persons.
Hotels
Gastronomy Culture Nature *****
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Travel dates 2016
ISZ1: Saturday, 26-mar-2016 to Saturday, 02-apr-2016
ISZ2: Saturday, 02-apr-2016 to Saturday, 09-apr-2016
ISZ3: Saturday, 09-apr-2016 to Saturday, 16-apr-2016
ISZ4: Saturday, 01-oct-2016 to Saturday, 08-oct-2016
ISZ5: Saturday, 08-oct-2016 to Saturday, 15-oct-2016
ISZ6: Saturday, 15-oct-2016 to Saturday, 22-oct-2016
ISZ7: Saturday, 22-oct-2016 to Saturday, 29-oct-2016
Traveling price
Price per person in the DR for 7 nights with half-board, eBike,
entrance free, transfers, guided tours: € 1830
Single-room surcharge: € 390
Does not include lunch, drinks and your personal expenses as
well as poss. travelling there and back.
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Flight
Target airport Catania with LH or partner airline from/to Munich (as available): € 375
Surcharge for other German airports: € 40
Rail&Fly (LH) from DB train stations, return ticket: € 58
Flights from airports in Austria or Switzerland on request.
Car
Direct motorway connection to Catania and ferries from Civitaveccia, Naples and Reggio Calabria. From Munich it‘s an 18 hours‘
trip (including ferry). you can leave your car at the Catania airport during the bicycle tour (€ 50/week).
Train
From Munich you can reach Catania by train (also overnight train) in at least 21 hours with with two transfer.
Participation conditions
The arrangement contains the above services. Our terms and conditions apply.
With your booking confirmation, you will receive the „pedelon travel information“, which contains useful notes on
travelling to Catania and other advice around your trip.
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SICILY
Discover the pearl of Southern Italy by eBike, see evergreen mountains, valleys with lush vegetation, black volcanoes
and mostly the sea, with its incredible colors and its clear floods, making Sicily one of the most beautiful islands in the
world. The magic is enriched by many archaeological finds that report on the antique origins of Trinakria. Any number
of building monuments are silent witnesses of the time of epochs of great art and rich culture. Best hotels in country
estates and palaces, great cuisine on the largest island of Italy. Discover Sicily at its best with pedelon; enjoy a comfortable bicycle tour full of authenticity and surprises.
The rooms in the „Hotel Romano House Luxury Hotel“ are available from 2 PM onwards. The recently renovated four-star hotel
is centrally located in the old town. It is a skillful mix of historical
building substance from the 17th century and new design. From
here, you can reach the sights of the black town on foot easily.
Use of lava stone as construction material can be seen in palaces, residences, churches, road paving and at the harbor of
Catania. The antique theatre and the Roman amphitheater are
also made of black stone. After the eruption in 1669 and the disastrous earthquake of 1693, Catania was rebuilt in the Baroque
style of the 18th century. It has hardly changed since. A tour of
the town will show you the most beautiful corners and teach you
lots of interesting things about the impressive town at the base
of the Etna. Meet in the hotel hall at 5 PM. Invitation to dinner in
an old-town tavern, which offers typical specialties of the country.
the afternoon. The small town on a hill is known for its Sicilian
Baroque. The pedelon partner hotel „Antica Badia Relais“ is an
elegant five-star hotel with comfortable and tastefully furnished
rooms (two nights). Take the opportunity of a walk to dinner to
explore the lower Ibla. In this part of the old town, which is considered a world cultural heritage, Marcello, the Padrone of the
Ristorante „4Gatti“, is waiting for pedelon guests, to whom he
serves typical ragusan specialties.
1st day, Sunday: Catania – Ragusa, 48 km
The first kilometers with heavy traffic will be bridged by bus. After
the short drive, you will first receive your pedelon eBike in cozy
Vizzini. You will continue across calm streets in a slight rise up to
Monterosso Almo. This is particularly fun on eBikes. You will continue by bike through the picturesque landscape past the pretty
artificial lake S.Rossalia, to Ragusa. Where you will arrive late in
2nd day, Monday: Ragusa – Scicli – Donnafugata –
Ragusa, 67 km
With a last spectacular look back on Ragusa, you will take off
across an idyllic side road slightly downhill towards Scicli, where
you will arrive in the morning. Visiting the town that was destroyed by an earthquake in 1693 impressively shows the successful
reconstruction in the style of Sicilian Baroque. Enjoy a Cappuccino
on the Piazza before the city hall, reminiscent of „Commissario
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Montalbano“, the famous novel hero of Andrea Camilleri, who according to the author never has his espresso anywhere else. Al-
ways close to the sea, this leg will lead across Donnalucata and to
Maritima di Ragusa, before continuing along the edge of a nature
preserve to Punta Secca, where the beach near the Commissario
Villa invites you to take a break. A slight climb to the Castello di
Donnafugata ends today‘s cycling trip. A bus will return you to
the hotel in a quarter of an hour. You will walk across the Corso
to the „Taverna dei Cinque Sensi“, where Alessandro will treat his
guests to treats today.
3rd day, Tuesday: Ragusa – Noto – Siracusa, 55 km
The next morning, you will leave Ragusa by eBike through the
narrow alleys of Ibla. After a brief flat area, the batteries will help
you climb to San Giacomo.
On the nearly abandoned high plateau, the cyclists will find a
wonderful section of lonesome side streets crossing olive groves
and orange plantations until just before Noto, another pearl of
Sicilian Baroque. Noto was rebuilt in 1693 after an earthquake
had completely destroyed the town. After lunch at the „Trattoria al
buco“, you will visit the centre with the „most beautiful Baroque
balconies in the world“, as they say. From Noto, you will reach
Syracuse by taxi in about half an hour. In this town, which is rich
with cultural monuments, the „Algilà Charme Hotel“ will wait for
its guests right by the sea. For dinner Milena and her husband
Andrea invite us to their nearby ristorante “Mastrarua“.
4th day, Wednesday: Siracusa – Pantalica und zurück,
50 km
Today‘s cycling section starts in pretty Buscemi after a short bus
ride. Your eBikes will take you to Càssaro on side roads with little
traffic and between small, idyllic hills. A downhill ride across three
kilometers will take you to the forge of the Anapo river in several
serpentines. The bicycle path meanders through the nature preserve „Valle dell´Anapo“ on the old train route and through a few
short tunnels to just before Sortino. There, the necropolises of
Sicily Pantàlica with approx. 5000 chamber graves are located. They
are only accessible by foot in the slopes above the river. They are
important documents of early settlement and used to be a place
where the Sicans, the Sicilian indigenous people, withdrew to.
After a lunch break in a wonderful Agriturismo near Pierluigi, the
bicycle path goes across 20 picturesque kilometers to Floridia at
the fringes of Syracuse. To avoid the traffic in town, we recommend taking the taxi for the last kilometers to the hotel. After a
walk through the alleys of the old town, we will meet at one of
the best restaurants in town, where Stefano will present a subtle
interpretation of traditional sicilian dishes.
5th day, Thursday: Siracusa – Taormina (around the Etna),
47 km
After breakfast, the bus will take you to Paternò in about an hour.
From there, you will round the Etna with the famous Ferrovia Circumetnea. It is a memorable experience of overwhelming nature
and nostalgic railway technology, past Bronte, which is famous for
the supposedly „best pistaccios in the world“.From Maletto, you
will continue by bike to Randazzo, where you will visit the vineyard
of Giuseppe Russo. Its outstanding and organically grown Etna
wines will accompany our picnic in the vineyards. The remaining
kilometers of this day start out across slightly hilly terrain to the
„Gole di Alcàntara“, a nature park in the middle of a spectacular
gorge cut into the basalt stone by the Alcàntara river. To avoid the
traffic in town, a small bus will take you to the hotel in Taormina,
one of the most-frequently visited places in Sicily. The hotel „Villa
Schuler“, where Signore Schuler cordially welcomes his guests,
is located fantastically with a view of the Etna and the bay of Giardini di Naxos. Through the magnificent garden of the hotel, you
will get directly to the Corso Umberto, inviting you to shop with its
stores while also a wonderful place to just stroll around. At its end,
Daniele will be waiting for you in the „Il Giardino“ with taorminian
cuisine and a rustic ambience.
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6th day, Friday: Taormina – Etna (from the crater‘s edge
to the sea!), 49 km
After an extraordinary breakfast on the sun terrace with a view of
the sea, the bus will take you to the Rifugio La Sapienza, about
halfway up the Etna at a height of 1986 meters. After a brief
hike around the Silvestri side crater, which extinguished 100 ye-
ars ago, you will have a spectacular view in all directions. After a
brief downhill ride, you will soon reach Zafferana. In Milo, a picnic
on the sun terrace with a view of the Ionian sea will top off this
day. The remaining bicycle kilometers of the trip will lead through
slightly hilly country with chestnut and oak forests before turning
down to the sea across the sleepy Presa. At the beach of Marina
di Cottone, you can top off this outstanding bicycle section with
a glass of white wine or a jump into the Ionian sea. Back in the
„Hotel Villa Schuler“, you will have a little time left before meeting
for the last shared dinner in nearby Ristorante „Tiramisu“. Giuseppe will take care of a pleasant end to this eBike tour rich in
experiences with an outstanding fish menu.
7th day, Saturday: Taormina – Catania
Before you travel to the airport in Catania or the city centre with
the pedelon partner hotel „Romano House Luxury Hotel“, you will
explore Taormina in detail on a city round trip.
For a perfect extension of your stay in Sicily, we can recommend
our partner hotel Schuler.
For additional holidays, it is a good idea to rent a car. The rates are
particularly low in Sicily.
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