Palermo: Small-Group Walking Tour with Local Guide

This is a private tour: only your group, one licensed guide, three hours built around what you want to see. Before the tour you tell us your interests, history, markets, architecture, street food, photography, travelling with children, and your guide shapes the route around them while keeping Palermo's essentials: the Cathedral, the Quattro Canti, Piazza Pretoria and its Fountain of Shame, a street market where vendors still shout the abbanniate, and the Teatro Massimo from outside. Your guide holds the regional tour-guide licence and lives in Palermo: Arab, Norman, Spanish and Baroque layers explained in plain words, and the city as it is today, from the Sack of Palermo to the neighbourhoods coming back to life. Halfway through, we stop at Pasticceria Costa, a historic pasticceria of the centre, for a sweet break on us: a cannolo or, in summer, a granita with brioche, with coffee or water. Choose the morning (9:30) or the afternoon (15:30, 16:00 in summer), and your language: English, Italian, Spanish, Russian or French. The pace is yours: three kilometres at a relaxed walk, with time for photos and questions. Entrance tickets to churches and palaces are optional and paid on site; your guide tells you which ones are worth it.