From Ragusa to Agrigento – Caltagirone & Roman Villa
Private Transfer Tour from Ragusa to Agrigento: stopovers at Caltagirone & Roman Villa
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€76.00
Duration: 8 Hours (approx.)
Product code: RAGPIAAGR
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Ragusa ⇒ Caltagirone ⇒ Piazza Armerina ⇒ Agrigento
Today h 8:30AM meet & greet our staff at your hotel in Ragusa. Then you will be driven to Caltagirone, famous for its ceramic tradition and baroque style. Visit or climb the steps of Santa Maria del Monte, city’s symbol made out of 142 steps decorated with splendid glazed majolica tiles. Free time for lunch. Then we travel to Piazza Armerina, a small town in the province of Enna famous for the mosaics of the Roman Villa of Casale (Admission Fee: not included), one of the most beautiful villas of the Roman ever built, with 60 rooms and 3500 square meters of floor mosaics. Later we will continue to Agrigento, where you will be driven to your hotel.
Booking process system:
Send us all Your details by filling in the automatic form – no payment is required at this stage – Your booking will be in pending as long as we will confirm the availability. If available, the tour will be confirmed and we will charge a deposit of Euro 100,00 (total per vehicle) on Your credit card. As per our policy, this deposit is needed to guarantee the booking.
The balance will be charged automatically on the same credit card used for the deposit 15 days before tour begins.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
-Vehicle with air conditioning;
-English speaking Driver Escort;
-Visit as per itinerary;
-Credit Card fees;
-Legal Invoice;
-VAT.
WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED
-Admission fees;
-Gratuities and Tips;
-Licensed Tourist Guide;
-Beverage and meal;
-Travel Insurance;
-Hotel accommodation;
-City taxes.
***** IMPORTANT TO KNOW *****
START/FINISH
The tour is Land only; begins in Ragusa with pick-up in your hotel (booked on your own) and ends in Agrigento with drop-off at your hotel (booked on your own).
DRIVER ESCORT INFORMATION
We customized these excursions using a Driver-Escort. A Driver Escort is a chauffeur (or driver) specialized to drive you around our amazing island. He is able to provide basic historical information, he can show you the main highlights … he is knowledgeable and he has an umbrella of information. Our Driver Escort will take care to give adequate time at all stops and to accommodate special requests when possible, he will assure that your experience in Sicily will be both memorable and enjoyable.
The Driver Escort is not a Licensed Tourist Guide (Licensed Tourist Guide: are the only professionals — with a Regional license — permitted to conduct visits and tours in all sites and museums within a city) and he cannot escort you inside the monuments because this is not allowed by Italian Rules. In case you need a Licensed Tourist Guide you must pay a surcharge and we will arrange for Licensed Guide to meet you directly on the spot.
LICENSED TOURIST GUIDE (Service is available on request)
These excursions doesn’t include Licensed Tourist Guide. We are able to book this service on request, subject to availability.
ADMISSION FEE
The price of this tour does not include the Admission Fees. If you are under 18 years old the admission fees are free of charge for you showing your document (or copy of your document) on the spot.
GRATUITIES (We Suggest)
– The suggested amount for the Driver Guide have to be an average between EURO 30,00 to EURO 50,00 (for a full day excursion) per day based on the efficiency and service you receive.
-Gratuities to restaurants are never included in the bill. The restaurant cover charge is not a tip. If paying with credit cards in Italy & Sicily, please be so kind as to pay your tip separately in cash to the waiter. This should be 10% of the total bill.
-The use of public toilets requires a payment to the attendant of EURO 0,30 cents. Public toilet charge EURO 0,50 cents.
BAGGAGE HANDLING
One big size and one trolley per person are allowed in this tour.
DISABLED TRAVELERS:
Please be so kind as to share with us, before booking, if you have walking limitations.
EXCURSION | CANCELLATION POLICY:
-Total refund up to 15 working days before arrival
-25% of total amount won’t be refunded from 14 to 10 days before arrival
-50% of total amount won’t be refunded from 9 to 6 days before arrival
-75% of total amount won’t be refunded from 5 to 3 days before arrival
-100% of total amount won’t be refunded from 2 to the day of the services or after (No refund for no show).
AS REGARDS VILLA ROMANA OF CASALE
The Roman Villa of Casale possesses the largest complex of mosaics which ancient Roman civilization has handed down to us. The building of this villa has been placed at around the IIIrd-IVth century A.D. and was planned as a luxurious hunting lodge for the Emperor Maximian Herculius. It contains over 40 floors in polychromatic mosaic covering an area of about 3.500 sq. metres. The mosaics excavated here are in uncommonly beautiful colours and were the work of African crafts-men, pupils of a great school which propagated African mosaics to other regions with relations with their homeland such as Spain, Gaul and Italy.
The attitude of the girls suggest that they are doing gymnastics. In the triple-recessed hall of the Labours of Hercules in the east apse one can see 5 giants, their faces twisted in spasms of pain, trying to free themselves from the fatal arrows shot at them by Hercules. The central Titan of the scene best of all conveys the pain of his agonized body by the contraction of his features.
