We will reach San Mauro Castelverde which is truly one of the most beautiful mountain villages in the Madonie Regional Park. It’s Located at an altitude of 1050 metres, it’s famous for its medieval Churches and the typical small squares where you can admire a beautiful landscape of the mountains and the sea. After this unforgettable visit we will reach the ‘’Trattoria La Posada’’ , which is located in Karsa a small hamlet of San Mauro and run by a very hospitable family, where a real Sicilian feast will be offered to you. The chef Rosa will be also happy to show you the secret of her culinary art and everything you will taste will be produced from organic ingredients produced on the surrounding farms. To keep us company during the dinner some typical Sicilian music will be played until late night.
Posted By : Mary_C
Roberta, our guide, was knowledgeable, a local, and loved by all who greeted her. She took us to her home village of Castelverde and walked us through the ancient streets, explaining village life as we walked.
Next, we went to La Posada for a cooking lesson then to the restaurant for dinner. As we exited the bus, the vibrant accordian player and guitarist welcomed us along with the owners. The treated us to antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolce. All was delicious. In between courses, we danced to the authentic Sicilian music. Our dancing moved outside for a traditional circle dance that was great fun.
If you are looking for an authentic Sicilian experience, sign up for this tour. It is excellent!
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Posted On : 2024-06-22 10:40:45 
Posted By : stevehY3500SG
As the other reviewers say this is a fantastic experience which will bring a smile to your face and fill your belly at the same time. Roberta is a diamond, there’s nothing she doesn’t know about Sicily, speaks perfect English too. I thoroughly recommend this excursion.
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Posted On : 2022-09-10 07:24:36 
Posted By : 451leighd
Roberta was a simply amazing guide and being from the local area having grown up and lived in this remote village her passion and love for the heritage and its people and food and customs was contagious.
The dinner itself after the wonderful tour through the village was such fun - full of dancing and laughter and do not think you will be allowed to sit down and relax - Pedro will have you up dancing and singing the night away!!
I LOVED it.
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Posted On : 2022-08-18 13:20:01
Posted By : Edit S
We loved this half day trip to San Mauro Castelverde and Contrada Karsa.
Roberta was our guide, she is a lovely talented lady. She speaks very well English and she has many stories about the area we visited, she grew up there. We met briefly with her family too, lovely people! The bus tour to San Mauro is full of breath taking views, it's very nice break after the beaches in Sicily. San Mauro is on the top of the hill, and it's a very pretty little village with about 2000 people which is roughly 30 families she said.
The place has few local stores and they only sell local products. We also tried some amazing local cakes (free of charge) which was so delicious that we ended up buying some more for our friends.
We also visited 2 different churches with big history, and both of them were lovely inside and out. After our trip to San Mauro we headed to Karsa for a local dinner. A very nice local lady presented us some amazing sicilian recepie. They have there a lovely kitchen where they show all the steps of some sicilian starters, it was an amazing experience. Obviously we had those starters and other amazing sicilian dishes with a very nice house wine, and while we were there we had 2 amazing musicians playing various Italian music, very nice people!! We had a little dance too! It was the best and unique trip we had in Sicily. I recommend it to everyone visiting Cefalu to take this trip. We left 4PM and arrived home around 11PM. We loved every step of it! Well done Roberta! 😀
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Posted On : 2022-05-28 07:47:38
Posted By : Discover12958039013
The best tour we had in Cefalu. Roberta, the tour guide is simply amazing, the whole tour is absolutely mind blowing. The food and music were fantastic too, great atmosphere. PLS don't miss it. We are so glad we booked it.
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Posted On : 2022-05-28 07:38:06
Posted By : Titaporn T
I love this tour! I came all the way from palermo to be picked up in cefalu for this tour. luckily i had another tour guide to sort out my pick up points and taxis etc before as there were so many people so much shambles but at the end the tour guide was attentive to me and sorted out my appointment with my taxi etc. That place is quite cold so bring a jacket. we went to visit st mauro in a village and went for cooking demo and dinner. The musician guy I think I was most impressed with he played with heart and was eager to make people happy all night long. The food is brillant. I tried some new food. I absolutely love the prickly pear and cactus! my new delicacy favourites! I really would like to enquire about some cooking classes actually! I ended up buying the olive oil they had on sale as its absolutely gorgeous! xx
