Food Safari tour of Sicily by air: 4 days, 3 nights
A food technology tour to Sicily will give your students a range of exciting learning opportunities in nutrition and cooking. This tour would also be ideal to consider making cross-curricular, linking to other subject areas. Our Food Safari tours are exclusive to Select School Tours.
Suggested itinerary
Day one
- Arrival of the group to Catania Airport
- Meet with our bus and transfer to your hotel in Giardini Naxos / S.Alessio Siculo area
- Accommodation in the hotel, dinner and overnight
Day two
- Breakfast in the hotel
- Departure for Catania and visit of the renowned Pescheria Market, Catania’s open-air fish market
- Village of Zafferana Etnea – honey laboratory
- Visit canteen on the lower slopes of the volcanic mountain
- Return to hotel for dinner and overnight
Day three
- Breakfast in the hotel
- Catania region and visit of an orange plantation
- Visit town of Taormina
- Transfer to a restaurant for a pizza making lesson
- Return to your hotel overnight
Day four
- Breakfast in the hotel
- Transfer to Catania Airport
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Excursion Ideas
Pescheria Market, Catania
Subject range: Food Technology
What you’ll experience: A great way for students to understand the importance of seafood on the Sicilian table is a visit to Pescheria Market. Catania’s open-air fish market which takes place in the streets behind Piazza del Duomo every workday morning and students will experience fishmongers at work.Select says: Students will see produce such as octopuses, swordfish, clams, sea urchins, mussels, eels, ray, prawns and more!
Zafferana Etnea - honey laboratory visit
Subject range: Food Technology
What you’ll experience: The area around Mount Etna is famous for its honey, especially around this area and Zafferana Etnea is home to the largest honey producers of Italy. Students will visit a honey laboratory.Select says: Find out more about Sicilian honey here.
Canteen visit - Mount Etna
Subject range: Food Technology
What you’ll experience: Students will visit a canteen on the lower slopes of the volcanic mountain.Select says: Some of Italy’s most exciting wines are produced amid the high altitude and volcanic soils of Etna.
Orange Plantation
Subject range: Food Technology
What you’ll experience: Students will visit an orange plantation in the Catania region. The group will be guided aroung the plantation to experience all the characteristics of this fruit along with the production techniques. They will have the chance to taste the different types of oranges directly from the trees. At the end of this visit, students will be served a brunch consisting of various typical Sicilian produce, of course including an orange salad and marmalade on bread.Select says: Afterwards students will visit the beautiful town of Taormina.Pizza Making Lesson
Subject range: Food Technology
What you’ll experience: Students will visit a restaurant for a pizza making lesson, learning the skills used in making traditional Italian pizzas.Select says: Students will eat the pizzas after the demonstration.
Food Safari trip to Sicily by air: 4 days, 3 nights Accommodation
Hotel Baia degli Dei
Location: Giardini Naxos
Capacity:
Located by the sea in the beautiful Bay of Recanati, Giardini Naxos, just a few kilometres from Taormina. You can see Mount Etna from the hotel (the highest volcano in Europe) and the Mediterranean Sea.
Rooms: En-suite facilities. Rooms have a balcony or terrace.
Facilities: Restaurant, air conditioning, restaurant, hall equipped with spacious lounge bar, TV room.
Hotel Athenaeum
Location: Palermo
Capacity: 80
Albergo Athenaeum is a modern hotel located opposite the University of Palermo campus, a few minutes from the old town and the famous Ballarò market.
Rooms: Single, double or triple rooms located on six floors, all with en-suite facilities.
Facilities: Restaurant, Wi-Fi is available throughout the hotel.
Hotel Tre Torri
Location: Agrigento
Capacity: 118
Located a 5 minutes’ walk from Villaggio Mosè centre, the Tre Torri Hotel offers classic rooms with air conditioning and modern Italian furniture. The Valley of the Temples is just 1.9 miles away.
Rooms: All with en-suite facilities.
Facilities: Free WiFi, restaurant serving traditional Sicilian cuisine, air-conditioned dining room overlooking the sun terrace and swimming pool, free gym, ping pong table and a TV room.
Links to Learning
Learning areas:
KS3 Aims: understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook
Subject content: Through a variety of creative and practical activities, pupils should be taught the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to engage in an iterative process of designing and making. They should work in a range of domestic and local contexts (for example, the home, health, leisure and culture) and industrial contexts (for example, engineering, manufacturing, construction, food, energy, agriculture).
Design: use research and exploration, such as the study of different cultures, to identify and understand user needs
Make: select from and use a wider, more complex range of materials, components and ingredients, taking into account their properties
Evaluate: analyse the work of past and present professionals and others to develop and broaden their understandingSelect Extras:
How about giving your students a taste of the Italian language pre-tour? Try these resources:
