Private Excursion to Savoca & Taormina: In the Footsteps of "The Godfather"

Overview

Highlights

• Savoca & "The Godfather" Film Set
• Taormina, Pearl of the Ionian
• Private Tour from Catania

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Via Teatro Greco

   3h

   The tour begins with pick up at your hotel, or at the cruise terminal of the port of Catania. We provide both cars and minivans depending on the request and the number of participants. The following tour is to be considered private. From Catania we will leave for Taormina (about 50 km), we will visit the Greek theater independently, on foot we will continue to Palazzo Corvaja, the belvedere, Corso Umberto with its characteristic streets full of typical shops and souvenirs. The tour continues towards Savoca about 20 km, a small perched village, where some scenes of the film "the godfather" by Francis Ford Coppola were shot. In this tour at the request of the customer you have the opportunity to visit Castelmola, a medieval town above Taormina, instead of Savoca.

2. 2

   Bar Vitelli

   1h

   Savoca is a country of a thousand attractions even if in reality it is a small village in the province of Messina with 1750 inhabitants. It is perched on the mountain but also offers a lot to tourists who visit it. It is bathed by the streams of Agrò and Savoca and is a town of art included in the circuit of "The most beautiful villages in Italy". In this village, scenes were shot "the Godfather", the successful film by Francis Ford Coppola, shot in 1972. A return to the past, to a town with few cars and little chaos, to the ancient buildings of the era in lava stone, surrounded by citrus groves, vineyards and olive groves. In the background the splendid Gulf of Taormina

Before you go

Location

Via Teatro Greco, 98039, Italy