Messina Food and Culture Walking Tour
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Overview
Meet your friendly local tour guide right at the Messina Cruise Port and get ready for an unforgettable journey through the city’s flavors and stories.
As you stroll through the streets of Messina, a city beautifully rebuilt after the devastating 1908 earthquake, you’ll discover its charm, resilience, and mouthwatering cuisine.
Your first stop offers a perfect introduction to Sicilian sweetness: granita messinese.
Sit at a traditional café and enjoy this refreshing iced dessert, invented right here in Messina.
Learn the Sicilian way to eat granita, always served with the soft, sweet brioche cu tuppu.
Your guide will even share the local custom of showing affection by sharing a piece of brioche with loved ones!
Try the city’s most traditional flavor, “menza ca panna”, coffee with whipped cream, or sample other favorites like strawberry, lemon, or pistachio.
Continue your walk through Antonello Square, dedicated to the famous Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina, and admire the elegant buildings around you, including the magnificent Gallery Vittorio Emanuele III.
At noon, prepare for one of Messina’s most famous spectacles: the Bell Tower Show in Cathedral Square.
Watch as the figures of the world’s largest and most complex astronomical clock come to life, accompanied by Schubert’s Ave Maria.
It’s a magical moment that captures the heart of the city.
After the show, it’s time to taste Messina’s savory side!
Enjoy lunch at a local bakery where you’ll try delicious Sicilian specialties such as arancino (crispy rice balls filled with ragù), pitone, or focaccia messinese, a local version of Sicilian pizza.
Your cultural journey continues with a visit to the Church of Santissima Annunziata dei Catalani, one of the few buildings that survived the 1908 earthquake, still standing at the original ground level of old Messina.
End your food adventure on a sweet note with Sicily’s most beloved desserts: a crunchy cannolo or a creamy gelato from a traditional pastry shop.
TYPICAL FOOD TASTINGS
- • Piccolo Cafè. (granita with brioche or cappuccino with croissant)
- • Panificio Doppio Zero (arancini, pitoni, focaccia, water, soft drinks, beer)
- • Pasticceria Gelateria Ragusa (Sicilian Cannolo or gelato)
ITINERARY- • Meet and Greet at the Cruise Port
- • Walk to Palazza Zanca (10 mins)
- • Visit local cafe for breakfast (30 mins)
- • Galleria Vittorio Emanuele III (10 mins)
- • Cathedral Square and Shopping (20 mins)
- • Bell Tower show at Cathedral Square (20 mins)
- • Local Bakery for Lunch Tastings (30 mins)
- • Santissima Annunziata dei Catalani Church (10 mins)
- • Local Pastry shop for desert tastings (15 mins)
- • Return back to cruise port
Please note the itinerary timings are approximate timings
- • Return back to cruise port
- • Local Pastry shop for desert tastings (15 mins)
- • Santissima Annunziata dei Catalani Church (10 mins)
- • Local Bakery for Lunch Tastings (30 mins)
- • Bell Tower show at Cathedral Square (20 mins)
- • Cathedral Square and Shopping (20 mins)
- • Galleria Vittorio Emanuele III (10 mins)
- • Visit local cafe for breakfast (30 mins)
- • Walk to Palazza Zanca (10 mins)
- • Meet and Greet at the Cruise Port
- • Pasticceria Gelateria Ragusa (Sicilian Cannolo or gelato)
- • Panificio Doppio Zero (arancini, pitoni, focaccia, water, soft drinks, beer)
What's Included
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English Speaking Guide
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Typical Sicilian Street Food Tastings
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Headsets to listen to guide
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Beer and Water included
Considerations
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Wine and Spirits
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Museum of The Cathedral
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Entrance to The Bell Tower
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Crypth of The Cathedral
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This tour is not suitable for walkers, wheelchair users or motorized scooters
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Gratuities/Tips are not included in your tour, if you would like to leave a tip, please bring cash
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Minimum number of guests per group is 4 guests
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Maximum number of guests per group is 25 guests
Special Instructions
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Wear comfortable walking shoes
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Bring your sunscreen, sunglasses, sunhat, and water bottle
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Bring cash and/or credit card for any additional purchases on the day
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Bring your camera to capture wonderful memories of your time ashore!
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup and Dropoff at the Cruise Port Included.
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Price Info
Messina Food and Culture Walking Tour
Per Adult
USD $ 95.00
Per Child - Ages 4-12
USD $ 70.00
Per Infant - Ages 0-3
USD $ 15.00
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