Discover Sicily with Lisa
May 23 – June 1, 2025
Join me for a small group adventure in Sicily! There is so much to see there: architecture, historical sites, beautiful beaches and food, of course! This will be a rollicking 10 days looking at the treasures of the various areas as we make our way around the island. We will have our own transport and driver, of course, someone very familiar with the best locations and stops…While we will be seeing quite a bit, we will also be taking the time to savor the experience – no rushing from place to place as most tourists do, just to check something off our list. No, we will do this the Italian way: piano, piano (slowly) so we can take it in.
You will want to bring your camera and art supplies (painting or sketching) for recording your visit. There will be ample time to paint plein air or wander the sites and capture them with your camera. Time will be on our side.
This group experience will be a bit different from my normal offerings, since we will be moving from place to place around the island. We will be accommodated in 3 or 4 different locations over the 10 days, so instead of having our regular dedicated chef preparing our meals, on this adventure only breakfasts are included. While your accommodations, breakfasts, and ground transport are included in the cost, meals and the short hop from Perugia to Sicily are not. This allows you to choose your daily meals where and how you desire, saving money at the same time.
If this is your first adventure with me, we will meet up in Florence, as usual, and spend our first night either in Tuscany or Perugia, depending on the composition of the group. If you are extending your stay from Christina Wald’s prior Sketching Workshop, we will pick you up at Montalla (our normal venue in Tuscany) and depart for the Perugia airport on the 24th May, where we will catch our short flight to Catania, where we will meet up with our driver, Remigio, and begin our jaunts around the island.
During our time there we will visit such delights as the Catania Cathedral, Mt Aetna, Taormina, Syracuse, Moto and the Agrigento Temples. You will want to travel with comfortable walking shoes and minimal luggage. This will be a laid-back and casual group of creatives and art instruction will not be provided. You will be free to do much as you please within the scheduled itinerary…want to go to the beach close by one day and skip the walking? No problem. Want to eat dinner as a group? We can arrange it…
As I said, this is a much less formal excursion than our normal offerings. It’s the perfect getaway from the stress of the USA right now. If what you need is a break from social media, the news and the heartbreak…this may be exactly what you need to regenerate your imagination and refuel your creative self. I hope you will join us on what I am sure will be a fun and joyful time to play and create in Sicily! You probably will never want to go home.
The cost for this adventure is 2900 USD for Double Occupancy (Single accommodations a bit more). Click the Read More link below to see what is included and what is not.
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