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[credit: Giampaolo Macorig]

N° of Days: One Week

Highlights

• Nature
• History
• Folklore

Attractions

• Coast and sea landscapes
• Historic sites
• Ancient Greek and roman monuments

Daily Itinerary

[Cefalù Beach - credit: farsergio]

Cefalù - Visit its Mosaics and the House where Satanist Aleister Crowley have gone in 1920

Palermo - See the interesting construction style of the city. Here you have to visit the Norman Palace, the seat of Sicilian Parliament; the many theatres attend in the city; the characteristics market of Vucciria. At least, if you will go in Summer, on the 15 July there is the S. Rosalia Festivity.

[San Vito Lo Capo - credit: pureguava]

San Vito Lo Capo - This is one of the most important sicilian summer resort, an attraction for tourists coming from all over the world

Erice - Norman Castle and Erice Castle

Segesta - It’s? an ancient site where you can see Greek Temple and Theatre.

Marsala - It’s an important historic site, where you can see:

• Cassero, an archaeological site
• Old roman house rests called INSULA ROMANA
• Punic tower basement
• Defensive punic Fosse
• Greek-Roman necropolis

[Sciacca - credit: hetan_hunt13]

Mazara del Vallo - A fishermen village

Sciacca - It’s main attractions are:

• Counts Luna castle built on 1380,
• Ferdinandea island: in the south of the coast of Sciacca there is a small island in the sea born by an eruption of a marine volcano

Porto Empedocle - A village near Agrigento where visit the Temple Valley

Accomodation: You can take your accommodation in Palermo, Marsala, Sciacca

Roads Conditions

• Easy: you don’t have difficulties riding west Sicily roads.
• Slightly hilly
• Asphalted roads
• Total Km: between 205 and 215

When to Bike?

The best period is spring, so you will enjoy the mild mediterranean climate. But winter is good too, because cold days are not much. Summer is a good period because you can relax on sicilian beaches, but your ride will be hard because the hot temperatures