From Rome to the Alcantara Valley by train

Live the experience of travel by train overnight leaving Rome to Sicily, and the fashion of a trip on a historical train around Etna mountain, discovering small villages full of history and wonderful typical food surrounded by enchanting scenarios.

This tour includes a round trip by train from Rome to Catania, you will sleep in a sleeper, and the train will cross the sea in the Strait of Messina on board of a characteristic ferry. Circumetnea train will bring you on an itinerary along the slopes of the Etna volcano, whose circumference is about 115 km, and will allow you to admire the splendid Sicilian landscapes and get to know the villages of the Alcantara Valley.

In Catania visit the picturesque fish market and the historic center characterized by Sicilian Baroque and the Ursino Castle of medieval origins; in Randazzo the medieval village from which it is possible to find the architectures influenced by the peoples who have succeeded one another from the Latins, the Greeks, the Lombards; in Taormina visit the splendid Ancient Theater of Taormina overlooking the sea and Mount Etna.

What about tasting, in Randazzo, a delicious Bronte pistachio dessert at a pastry shop and a Pirandello ice cream made with almond and lemon juice or meals cooked with local seasonal products, cheeses, meats, olives, tomatoes, etc.

Taste an excellent Etna wine in a cellar or farmhouse during lunch, and in Taormina the famous 'arancini' with rice, meat, and cheese.

Don’t miss the trekking experience on Etna through lava sand paths flanked by white birch trees and along the extinct craters of the Sartorius mountains or visit to the subsoil of an ancient lava flow cave and also trekking to the Alcantara Gorges with the possibility of body rafting.