Palermo Walking Tour and Street Food

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Overview

Enjoy and taste the street food in the old markets of Palermo observing people, products, colors and characters from another time. The smells and the flavors will accompany you during three unforgettable hours during which you will see also the Cathedral of Palermo

What's Included

Visit of the Palermo Cathedral
Suggestions about more attractions to visit in Palermo or about more food to eat.
Food tasting
Drink (water, beer or coca cola)
Pick up at 10:00 am to the port for cruise passengers. (Please send a message to the tour guide).
Local guide

Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
Drop off to the port

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Via Maqueda
90133 Palermo PA, Italy

What To Expect

Teatro dell'Opera dei Pupi

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.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Teatro Massimo

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.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Capo Street Market

The best street food market in Palermo

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Dainotti's Cibo di Strada

The best street food shop (friggitoria) in the old center of Palermo.

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Via Beati Paoli

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.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Cattedrale di Palermo

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.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Cassaro Alto

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.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Quattro Canti

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.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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Additional Info

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Wheelchair accessible
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 14 travelers

Frequently Asked Questions

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Q: What is the cancellation policy for the Palermo Walking Tour and Street Food?

A: You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund. For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (CEST).This tour requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund. Read more Apr 2025