Massimo Bellini Opera House (Teatro Massimo Bellini) Tours and Activities

Glide through the historic streets of Catania on a 3-hour Segway tour. Follow a local guide through the UNESCO-listed city center, passing the Fountain of the Elephant, the bustling street of Via Etnea and the park of Villa Bellini. Pause to admire the 13th-century Castle Ursino and learn more about the city’s medieval history. Your tour will conclude back at your original departure point.

Skip the morning heat and join us for a relaxing 3hr walk the backstreets of Catania city center. Your Catanese guide will walk you around her favorite food spots to try the traditional street food, such as the baked cipollina, the horse meatballs, some tasty fish recipe and finally ends with the refreshing granita. This is a off the beaten path walking tour. You will step into places you would hardly find on your own such as the secret lava tunnel situated downtown! This is the ideal tour for adventure travelers who want to discover the real local culture and avoid touristy stuff! The Catanese street food consists of snacks served in deli shops and eaten by hands. This tour is perfect for adventure eaters, not for picky ones :) On this tour you will have the chance to try the most popular local street food: horse meat! You'll get quality and quantity! Not only food! We will also talk about history, traditions and daily habits, discussing both lights and shadows of living in Sicily.

More and more adventurers are trying to make their way into tourism, but what makes us different is our professionalism, of which we are proud. We are professionals, licensed guides who love their land and know how to offer it to the attentive curiosity of the traveler. Our walking tour through the historic center of Catania will open up horizons you never even imagined! We are waiting for you!!

This Catania tour is perfect for travelers short on time—it fits many of the city’s highlights into just a few hours, leaving you enough time to still do more exploring that same day. See Piazza Stesicoro, Piazza Vincenzo Bellini, L’Arco di San Benedetto, and Castello Ursino with a guide who tells you fun historical facts along the way.

A tour of the city of Catania in the footsteps of his most illustrious child, Vincenzo Bellini, composer and author of Norma