Solemar Sicilia
holiday flats and language courses in sicily
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 example of a course programm

 
1. week
Sunday   Arrival/ Preliminary Test
 
Monday 09:00 Group formation; meeting
10:00 Language lesson
 
Tuesday 09:00 Language lesson
20:30 Dinner in a typical trattoria in Bagheria
 
Wednesday 09:00 Language lesson
19:30 Guided tour in Cefalù with wine tasting
 
Thursday 09:00 Language lesson.
18:00 Cooking course with food and wine tasting of Sicilian choice dishes in a beautiful villa in Porticello
 
Friday 09:00 Language lesson
15:00

Guidet tour of Palermo and its most important monuments

 
Saturday 08:00 BusTour to Mount Etna and Taormina
2. week
Sunday   free
 
Monday 09:00 Language lesson
20:30 Together with your fellow participants watch the famous Italian movie "Cinema Paradiso" (Giuseppe Tornatore is from Bagheria!)
 
Tuesday 09:00 Language lesson
16:00 Tour of Bagheria's famous baroque villas - the summer retrat of Sicilian nobility (optional, meet in front of Villa Cattolica )
 
Wednesday 09:00 Language lesson
11:00 Tour of a nearby Sicilian ceramics artistic workshop, famous for its gorgeous colours and designs. Meet the artist. Market day in Bagheria
 
Thuersday 09:00 Language lesson.

16:00

Tour of the Greek and Roman  ruins in Solunto.

 
Friday 09:00 Language lesson - bill payments at the office (11:30 - 13:00)
15:00

Socio-cultural tour of the old town of Palermo. This guided tour is part of an anti-mafia project of Padre Cosimo Scordato and his team. Visit their "centro sociale" and some re-educational workshops and the world-famous market of the "Albergheria", one of the most pictoresque quarters of historical Palermo, afterwards possibility to eat at one of Palermo's typical trattorias.

 
Saturday   departure day