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Catania's Street Food Caper

  • Catania
Fill your heart with Sicilian culture — through your stomach — by tasting your way through the town’s top edible hubs.
Immerse yourself in Sicily’s famed history by way of the food vendor. In the heart of the city, a local guide will take you to some of the top foodie spots that often get overlooked by the average visitor and whose whereabouts are mostly known only to locals. Not only will you pick up words and phrases used strictly in a Sicilian dialect, but you’ll overwhelm the senses (in a good way) through the tastes, smells, and textures only found when roaming a gastronomic capital.

Shore Thing Highlights

  • Wander through narrow streets, piazzas, and Arabian-style markets

  • Follow your guide to find some of the oldest food destinations in Sicily that many visitors overlook

  • Learn some words and phrases of the local dialect by checking out traditional stalls, shops, and food vendors

  • Indulge your sweet tooth when sampling cannolis and pastries concocted with the region’s famous almond paste

Need to know

  • Approximately 15-minute walk to/from Catania's city center

  • Approximately 3-hour walking tour

  • Includes tastings of local specialties

  • Sailors should expect long periods of walking and standing

  • Please be aware this Shore Thing is not wheelchair accessible

  • Sailors should expect to walk uphill and/or over uneven pavement

  • Comfortable walking shoes are recommended

  • This Shore Thing operator has received third-party certification based on the Global Sustainable Tourism Council criteria

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