Via Crociferi (Via dei Crociferi) Tours and Tickets

Discover the street food and snacks of Catania on a daytime walking tour around the city. Visit the main piazza, and the elegant Via dei Crociferi or Benedettini enclave, learning about Catania’s food and its place in Sicilian culture as you stroll. Sample treats at market stalls and bakeries, and then leave armed with tips for the best places to eat in town. A food 'passport' is included so you can keep track of your favorite bites along the way.

Taste your way through the bustling markets and piazzas of Catania on a mouth-watering, half-day culinary tour. Visit fish markets, bakeries, bars and stalls to sample the best Sicilian street food with a local guide. Try regional specialties like ‘arancini’ (stuffed fried rice balls), fizzy drinks, ‘cipollata’ (bacon-wrapped onions), ‘zibibbio’ wine and decadent cannoli. Learn what makes Sicilian cuisine unique from the rest of Italy while discovering some of Catania’s cultural treasures.

More and more adventurers are trying to make their way into tourism, but what makes us different is our professionalism, of which we are proud. We are professionals, licensed guides who love their land and know how to offer it to the attentive curiosity of the traveler. Our walking tour through the historic center of Catania will open up horizons that you never even imagined! We are waiting for you!! The tour will be in Italian or English but on request and if possible you can ask for a specific language among the following: German, Spanish, Russian, Greek and French

This Catania tour is perfect for travelers short on time—it fits many of the city’s highlights into just a few hours, leaving you enough time to still do more exploring that same day. See Piazza Stesicoro, Piazza Vincenzo Bellini, L’Arco di San Benedetto, and Castello Ursino with a guide who tells you fun historical facts along the way.

Glide through the historic streets of Catania on a 3-hour Segway tour. Follow a local guide through the UNESCO-listed city center, passing the Fountain of the Elephant, the bustling street of Via Etnea and the park of Villa Bellini. Pause to admire the 13th-century Castle Ursino and learn more about the city’s medieval history. Your tour will conclude back at your original departure point.

This is a walking tour to discover our culinary traditions and street food. The streets of Catania offer unique flavors, smells and colors, but to fully enjoy them you have to experience the city with a licensed local guide. The Catania diner is a real institution. A must in the bars and takeaways of the city is a cross between snacks and street food, a snack that can very well be a meal. The king of the table is the arancino, but there are many other specialties such as onion and Sicilian. And what about sandwiches with meatballs and scacciate? Or crispelle with ricotta and anchovy or honey? Together with the guide you will choose what to taste. Along the way it is mandatory to stop at a historic kiosk to taste the mandarin with lemon or the lemon and salt seltz. A cannoli or a cassatella will end our experience on a sweet note. You can find us at the GS infopoint in Piazza Duomo, on the corner with Via Merletta: come and visit us!

Visit the key places of Baroque art and architecture on this private six-day tour of Sicily, including Catania, Syracuse, Noto, Modica, and Ragusa, which offer the best examples of this style. See famous buildings, churches, and monasteries and attend special events such as themed dinners and music performances. Stay at a charming resort near Syracuse with a pool, spa, and golf course nestled among citrus groves.

If Catania bewitches you during the day with its smells and with the noise of the market, at night it totally envelops you. The city of Verga and Bellini, filmed by Bolognini and Germi, sung by Battiato and by Consoli, has a night owl and restless soul that lights up right at sunset. There is an almost physical need of its inhabitants to find themselves on the street and, when the sun goes down, they experience another dimension as in any large metropolis. This itinerary will take you, in the company of a licensed guide, to discover the places most loved by the "nocturnal people". It is not just a journey between clubs and meeting places for young people, but an experience to fully experience the fascinating city center in another light. Catania by night takes place in the pedestrian area, touching the places of the Catania nightlife.

Catania like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, following the devastating earthquake that destroyed the city in 1693, has been able to reinvent itself by taking on the appearance of the Baroque city that we still see today. Large urban spaces and grandiose architectural forms are the predominant aspects of this reconstruction. Starting from the inevitable Cathedral of Sant'Agata, we will then climb up to the dome of the Badia di Sant'Agata from which you can embrace the whole city with your eyes, then we will walk in Via Etnea to discover the legends that are hidden here up to the culmination of the Baroque splendor guarded by Via Crociferi.

Catch a glimpse of local life in the Sicilian city of Catania during this private walking tour. Skip the hassle of navigating and follow a guide to explore the city, including historic monuments such as the ruins of a Roman amphitheater. Learn about Catania’s Baroque architecture and see churches, squares, and the town hall.

The adjective that could define Catania is sumptuous. After the earthquake of 1693 a city of extraordinary beauty was rebuilt where the Baroque buildings draw marvelous scenographic perspectives. Through art and archeology it will be possible to hear the history and culture of a people that has always built the city where it has always been.