Top 10 Food & Drink in Province of Catania, Sicily

We are in love with the volcano Etna! But, differently, we offer excursions more informal and engaging with outstanding itineraries.Our guides, professional and adept, will lead you to the discovery of the volcanological and ethnographic aspects of Etna, as well as its flora and fauna. A picnic of Sicilian flavors for a festive break accompanied by good local wine will also enable you to remember this day not just as a simple excursion but also as an experience brightened by colors and emotions. The collected feedback from all the B&Bs and Hotels have left us able to individualize suggestions, itineraries and qualified people able to transform the excursions around the volcano into an authentic experience.

On the eastern side of the Etna volcano, in the woods of the National Park and facing the sea of Taormina, the Gambino vineyards are a pleasure for your senses and for your heart. A Pleasure for your sight, because they represent one of the best models of Etna vineyards of high altitude: in an exclusive natural environment, at 800 meters above sea level, the vineyards lay on sunny and airy terracing that have a breathtaking panorama. A pleasure for your sense of smell, for the unmistakable perfumes of the volcano vegetation. A pleasure for your heart, because the vineyards and wine are great passion that, for over twenty years, involves and guides the Raciti Gambino family.

Benanti. The high profile of Etna. We welcome our guests to our nineteenth-century estate, at the foot of Monte Serra in Viagrande. Our mission is to offer our guests an opportunity to become ambassadors of Etna wines, creating memorable experiences that communicate our territory and its centuries-old traditions via our wines. To do this, we accompany our guests around the estate, up the slope of Mt. Serra — an ancient volcanic cone sewn with vines — to see and touch our centenary vines of Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio. From the vineyard, we visit our old and majestic Palmento to learn about local customs and the winemaking techniques of our ancestors. Your experience continues in the historical former cellar, which has been transformed into a painting collection room for our selection of oil-on-canvas portraits. The wine & culture experience culminates in one of three guided wine tasting & food pairing programs: *"Get to know Etna" *"Contrade Selection" *"Library Vintages"

Travel to Sicily is a specialized agency for small group tours on Etna volcano, boat excursions, private tours, transfers and chauffeured car hire in Sicily. We speak Italian, English and Russian and can help you tailor your very own itinerary, just contact us!

Etna Est has been organizing since 2000 excursions on Etna and Stromboli volcanoes but also guided tours to the most beautiful places in Sicily, such as Taormina and Syracuse. Our trips are conceived in order to offer you a perfect service. Our guides are professional and friendly and can't look forward to sharing with you their love and passion for this amazing land. Live your dreams with Etna Est!

The family Vivera owns three estates with vineyards and olive trees, everything organically cultivated : Etna in Linguaglossa, Corleone in Palermo, Chiaramonte Gulfi in the province of Ragusa. The VIVERA winery is located in Linguaglossa, on the north eastern side of Etna, in the cru Martinella, between the sea and the volcano, surrounded by vineyards. All the family works in the winery with passion to create organic wines that are elegant and unique. This is possible thanks to the creativity and respect for the land, rich of minerals and volcanic on the Etna, fresh and full of hills in Corleone. The grapes are hand harvested. Inside the cellar, the traditional labor joins the vanguard ideas, ensuring respect to the grape, as it is from the Nature that the winery takes its inspiration to become eco-friendly. You discover the cellar room after room, in a succession of colors, from green to yellow, from red to blue, following the principle of color therapy to elicit positive emotions to those who work inside and for a quality of wine and a quality of everyday life . A quality that shows the art of living with taste, all Sicilian. Weekend: Tour & tasting only booking min 10 persons

Our winery is located on the north side slopes of the active volcano Etna, Sicily, at 750 meters above sea level. The location of our vineyards and olive grove dominates all the Alcantara valley and covers about 6 hectares. We are very near to Randazzo, the medieval town. The volcanic and calcareous soil, the altitude, and the climate produce wines that are elegant, intense and have a very long finish. We offer professional winery visits, wine tasting and/or lunch for small groups of winelovers. We produce wines from Nerello Mascalese (Etna indigenous varieties), Fiano, Aglianico (Italian varieties), and Cabernet Franc (international varieties). Our wine farm gives to the visitor a real full immertion of the wine tradition on the volcano.

A relaxing walking tour around the local fish market of Catania and its backstreets to hunt the best daily selection of street food (eg. arancini, granitas). This tour has been designed for travellers who want to experience Catania the way it really is, without filters of any kind. Streaty guides take travellers into food spots and hidden gems they would hardly find on their own. Besides the food experience, Streaty guides share with travellers daily life stories, discuss social issues and historical facts in order to give a complete overview of local culture! All tour guides are Sicilian and regularly licensed. A walk with a local friend and foodie, this is what it's all about :)

Palmento Costanzo is located in Contrada Santo Spirito, in Passopisciaro village, on the northern slope of Mount Etna. For centuries grapes of Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio, Carricante and Catarratto have been cultivated here. Today they farm following the principles of organic farming and all the labor is done manually. This is our home, where our Etna DOC wines are born: an authentic expression of the largest active volcano in Europe.