Palermo Walking Tour and Street Food
Indulge all your senses on a walking tour of Palermo's rich street food traditions. Join a knowledgeable guide for a walk through the historic part of the city and its vibrant outdoor markets. Start at one of Palermo's puppet theaters and visit a street market, a street food shop, and landmarks in the historic center. Watch the lively scenes around you, observing what seems like another time.
Highlights
- ✓Guided walking tour of Palermo's street food
- ✓Follow an expert guide through Palermo's old town
- ✓Explore busy street markets and steet food shops
- ✓Visit a puppet theater and landmarks in the historic center
What you'll see & do
- ✓Puppet opera is a particular type of puppet theatre, which emerged in southern Italy and particularly in Sicily in the early 1800s, is Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
- ✓It is the largest Opera House in Italy, the third one in Europe. It was built in 1875 and its history is full of legends.
- ✓The best street food market in Palermo
- ✓The best street food shop (friggitoria) in the old center of Palermo.
- ✓Beati Paoli is the name of a secretive sect thought to have existed in medieval Sicily. The sect, as described by the author Luigi Natoli in his historic novel I Beati Paoli. Whereas the novel is fictitious, Sicily's history bears some evidence that the Beati Paoli actually existed.
- ✓The Cathedral of Palermo is the most important monument of the “Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedrals of Cefalù and Monreale” site inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO on 2015. The Cathedral of Palermo was founded by Gualtiero Offamilio, archbishop of the town from 1169 to 1190. It was a mosque in Islamic times and converted into a cathedral church by Roberto the Guiscardo after the conquest of Palermo. Its exclusive elements are the inlays and the architectural and sculptural plastic that reflects the penetration of Romanic art and the first Gothic decorative taste in Sicily.
- ✓It is the most ancient street of Palermo. From the 16th century the street also named Via Toledo. After the unification of Italy, it was renamed Via Vittorio Emanuele II, but the old name is still in use.
- ✓Quattro Canti, or Vigliena square, is the name of the octagonal square in the intersection between the two most important streets in Palermo: via Maqueda and Cassaro (corso Vittorio Emanuele). Ancients sources refers about it as “Octagon” or “Sun’s Theatre”, because during the daylight almost one of the façades is lighten by the sun. The “Four Corners” were realized from 1609 until 1620. The shape of the square is an octagon and it’s placed in the middle of the ancient city as a perfect point of connection between the four most important districts of that period which are: Kalsa, La Loggia, Capo e Albergheria. The four façades of the buildings have four different levels. In the lowest one it is possible to see the fountains as the symbols of the four old Palermo’s main rivers: Oreto, Kemonia, Pannaria, Papireto; in the next level are shown the allegories of the four seasons represented by Eolo, Venus, Cerere and Bacchus; the middle part is decorated by the statues of Carlo V, Filippo II, Filippo III, Filippo IV; and in the last order there are the illustration of the four saints of Palermo before the arrival of Saint Rosalia (1624): Agata, Ninfa, Oliva e Cristina.
What's included
- ✓Local guide
- ✓Visit of the Palermo Cathedral
- ✓Pick up at 10:00 am to the port for cruise passengers. (Please send a message to the tour guide).
- ✓Suggestions about more attractions to visit in Palermo or about more food to eat.
- ✓Food tasting
- ✓Drink (water, beer or coca cola)
What's not included
- ✓Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
- ✓Drop off to the port
Good to know
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Wheelchair accessible: please, when you book the tour communicate there is a partecipant with wheelchair
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Free Child applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults (2 adults with 2 free child maximum).
If you are solo traveller contact us to know if there is a tour already organized.
If you want gluten free food, please ask us 24 hour before.
If you want vegetarian Street food, please us us when you reserve the tour
Cancellation policy
- •A full refund will apply if you cancel more than 24 hours before the activity start time.
- •No refund is possible if you cancel less than 24 hours before the activity start time.
Palermo Walking Tour and Street Food
Indulge all your senses on a walking tour of Palermo's rich street food traditions. Join a knowledgeable guide for a walk through the historic part of the city and its vibrant outdoor markets. Start at one of Palermo's puppet theaters and visit a street market, a street food shop, and landmarks in the historic center. Watch the lively scenes around you, observing what seems like another time.
Highlights
- ✓Guided walking tour of Palermo's street food
- ✓Follow an expert guide through Palermo's old town
- ✓Explore busy street markets and steet food shops
- ✓Visit a puppet theater and landmarks in the historic center
What you'll see & do
- ✓Puppet opera is a particular type of puppet theatre, which emerged in southern Italy and particularly in Sicily in the early 1800s, is Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
- ✓It is the largest Opera House in Italy, the third one in Europe. It was built in 1875 and its history is full of legends.
- ✓The best street food market in Palermo
- ✓The best street food shop (friggitoria) in the old center of Palermo.
- ✓Beati Paoli is the name of a secretive sect thought to have existed in medieval Sicily. The sect, as described by the author Luigi Natoli in his historic novel I Beati Paoli. Whereas the novel is fictitious, Sicily's history bears some evidence that the Beati Paoli actually existed.
- ✓The Cathedral of Palermo is the most important monument of the “Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedrals of Cefalù and Monreale” site inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO on 2015. The Cathedral of Palermo was founded by Gualtiero Offamilio, archbishop of the town from 1169 to 1190. It was a mosque in Islamic times and converted into a cathedral church by Roberto the Guiscardo after the conquest of Palermo. Its exclusive elements are the inlays and the architectural and sculptural plastic that reflects the penetration of Romanic art and the first Gothic decorative taste in Sicily.
- ✓It is the most ancient street of Palermo. From the 16th century the street also named Via Toledo. After the unification of Italy, it was renamed Via Vittorio Emanuele II, but the old name is still in use.
- ✓Quattro Canti, or Vigliena square, is the name of the octagonal square in the intersection between the two most important streets in Palermo: via Maqueda and Cassaro (corso Vittorio Emanuele). Ancients sources refers about it as “Octagon” or “Sun’s Theatre”, because during the daylight almost one of the façades is lighten by the sun. The “Four Corners” were realized from 1609 until 1620. The shape of the square is an octagon and it’s placed in the middle of the ancient city as a perfect point of connection between the four most important districts of that period which are: Kalsa, La Loggia, Capo e Albergheria. The four façades of the buildings have four different levels. In the lowest one it is possible to see the fountains as the symbols of the four old Palermo’s main rivers: Oreto, Kemonia, Pannaria, Papireto; in the next level are shown the allegories of the four seasons represented by Eolo, Venus, Cerere and Bacchus; the middle part is decorated by the statues of Carlo V, Filippo II, Filippo III, Filippo IV; and in the last order there are the illustration of the four saints of Palermo before the arrival of Saint Rosalia (1624): Agata, Ninfa, Oliva e Cristina.
What's included
- ✓Local guide
- ✓Visit of the Palermo Cathedral
- ✓Pick up at 10:00 am to the port for cruise passengers. (Please send a message to the tour guide).
- ✓Suggestions about more attractions to visit in Palermo or about more food to eat.
- ✓Food tasting
- ✓Drink (water, beer or coca cola)
What's not included
- ✓Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
- ✓Drop off to the port
Good to know
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Wheelchair accessible: please, when you book the tour communicate there is a partecipant with wheelchair
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Free Child applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults (2 adults with 2 free child maximum).
If you are solo traveller contact us to know if there is a tour already organized.
If you want gluten free food, please ask us 24 hour before.
If you want vegetarian Street food, please us us when you reserve the tour
Cancellation policy
- •A full refund will apply if you cancel more than 24 hours before the activity start time.
- •No refund is possible if you cancel less than 24 hours before the activity start time.