Agrigento tours and tour guidesAgrigento tours and day trips

Experience Agrigento with a local private guide. Michele Gallo and his team of fully- licensed expert tour guides (Sicily TravelNet tour guides network) offer Agrigento's  widest range of private tours, day trips ad activities for the discerning and intellectually curious traveller.

Whether you want to take a guided tour of the Valley of the Temples, follow in the footsteps of Inspector Montalbano, trace your family and heritage, go "off the beaten track" on a wine and food tour,  do it the best way and hire a local guide! Enjoy authentic, insider experiences and bring meaning to your travel! SicilyTravelNet private guided tours can be tailored to your specific needs. Browse through our list of day trips and activities and contact us to book a tour or design a bespoke experience! Tour Agrigento and Sicily with the people who know it best!

Departures from Agrigento, Verdura, Sciacca, Falconara, Licata. Shore excursions from Porto Empedocle, Licata, Sciacca ports of call. Day trips to Agrigento from Palermo, Taormina, Catania, Ragusa and any town in Sicily through our network of associate local drivers.

 

Why us? Michele Gallo has worked with History Channel as a WWII expert in the documentary "Real Mafia Underground" covering the role of Mafia in the allied landing in Sicily ("Husky operation") and has appeared on the BBC "Fast Track" programme.

For his role in designing the definitive Inspector Montalbano Tour he has been interviewed by Radio Rai (Italian National Radio), Radio Uruguay, the Guardian, the EasyJet Inflight magazine and a number of Italian newspapers. He has been lecturing on the Greek colonisation of Sicily and the Western Greeks to numerous study abroad programs, alumni and academic groups.

His tours are recommended by National Geographic Sicily Travel Guide, Rough Guide of Sicily, Lonely Planet, Washington Post, Crest (Centre for Responsible Tourism- Stanford University).

He has just been awarded "Sicily Tour Specialist of the Year 2017" by the Luxury Travel Guide.

 
Reviews
Hiring a guide can bring the history of the site to life and greatly enhance your visit.The talented and informed Michele Gallo( +39.360 397 930, valleyofthetemples.com) is highly recommended Sicily Rough Guide
 

One excellent English- speaking guide that we can recommend for the region is Michele Gallo who can organise individual and group itineraries according to the travellers' interests..

Lonely Planet Sicily Travel Book

 

Archaeological tours


Valley of the Temples walking tour

Agrigento archaeological museum

Illuminated temples

Selinunte tour

Roman Villa del Casale at Piazza Armerina

 

Literary tours



Inspector Montalbano tour

Luigi Pirandello's Girgenti

The Donnafugata "Leopard" tour

 

Themed tours


World War Two battlefields tour: Gela and Licata

Girgenti Old Town

Sciacca and Caltabellotta

Food and wine tours, cooking classes


Wineries tour

Cooking lessons