Incentive and events - Format Sicily & Malta event

Discover two Islands of the Mediterranean with a common root!

A journey through culture, food and environment enriching your soul, flavoured by team building activities to aggregate and amuse your guests.

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DAY 1: Welcome to Sicily.

At your arrival at the Palermo Airport, welcome by our staff. We shall transfer by motor coach to our centrally located hotel in the city. Our check in will be accompanied by a welcome drink. After check in we shall give free time to our guests in order to relax and get acquainted with their rooms. In the evening we meet in the lobby and proceed to our welcome dinner at the hotel, with an accurate menu. Overnight at the hotel.

DAY 2: Discover Palermo and Monreale with our photographic hunt!

In the morning you will be greeted at the hotel by our tour leader to reach firstly Monreale by motor coach, where we shall meet our game leaders, introducing the guests to our special activity for today, a photographic hunt. The group will be split in teams and each team will receive the gaming material then we’ll start the game! We shall walk into the city following the instructions given and, along the road, we shall meet our entertainers; while doing so, we shall discover the most famous but also the hidden places of Monreale. Monreale is home to a stunning Cathedral from Byzantine time, with its marvellous golden mosaics ceilings, and the city is strictly bond to the history of Sicily. After a couple of hours activity we’ll get back to the hotel for lunch. After lunch we leave the hotel for the second part of the game, taking us to the discovery of Palermo, the vibrant capital city of Sicily in 2 more hours circa! We shall walk along the most famous roads (Via Maqueda, Via Roma...), the most famous monuments and the typical narrow alleys, still meeting our entertainers to give a special light to all we see! At the end, we shall reach our hotel again and have free time to freshen up and to dress up for tonight’s dinner, in a special place in Palermo, which we shall reach by motor coach. Our dinner will be special, with a very accurate menu and excellent Sicilian wines! After dinner we drive back to the hotel for overnight.

DAY 3: The Roman Mosaics and the Pearl of the Mediterranean.

After breakfast we check out and meet our tour leader and driver to be taken to the first of our destinations of the day: Piazza Armerina, home to some of the finest Roman Mosaics in the Mediterranean area. The remains of the villa in which they are set used to belong to a very rich merchant and they still reveal all the opulence and luxury of the roman time. The quality and subjects of the mosaics are stunning! After visiting this excellent archaeological site with a local official guide we shall move further to a Baglio in the area; the Baglio is a typical rural structure which used to be the productive centre of old noblemen families of Sicily.

Nowadays they produce wine and we shall start by visiting their vineyards and cantina.

We then move to their restaurant and have lunch accompanied by the locally produced excellent wine. After lunch we shall move further to our destination, Taormina. Check in with a refreshing drink at our hotel and a short free time to freshen up. Right after we shall meet our local official guide and have access to the Roman-Greek Theatre of Taormina. We shall continue with the visit of Taormina, a nice late afternoon walk through its romantic alleys, and then we stroll to a fine local restaurant and have a nice welcome dinner. After dinner we reach our hotel and gather our energies, tomorrow we are going to visit one of the most famous wonders of Sicily!

DAY 4: Fire and Wine!

Being in Taormina we are at a stone throw from one of Sicily’s major wonders: Etna volcano!

After breakfast, assisted by our tour leader, we’ll be picked up by our jeep drivers to be taken to the volcano, along regular and off-road tracks. We shall see the wild side of the volcano, with its spectacular views and massive eruptions from the far and recent past, into woods and through lunar landscapes. We then continue to a large winery on the Etna slopes, where we shall go for a guided visit to the producing and aging area, ending at the degustation area where they’ll serve us a fine wine tasting along with a fine lunch. Afterward we have settled a nice activity for our guests: a bottling activity, the old fashioned way! After this nice activity it will be time to drive back to the hotel to freshen up and dress up for Sicily’s gala dinner. We shall leave the hotel at dinner time and reach a fine ancient villa in the area, at a few minute drive: here we have prepared a gala dinner with an excellent menu, superior wines and a gala dinner show with a presenter, live shows, live music, to make our last night in Sicily really unforgettable! After dinner we return to the hotel to rest before leaving Sicily toward Malta. If requested, we can also have a cameraman following the group in Palermo and during gala dinner, enabling us to producing a video DVD of both events.

DAY 5: Goodbye Sicily - Welcome to Malta.

In the morning, after breakfast, we check out and transfer to Catania for an own exploration of the city centre by illustrated material supplied by us (our tour leader will assist you where necessary), which shall also include free time for shopping, then stop for lunch in a cosy local restaurant for a very typical Sicilian lunch! After lunch a nice digestivo (amaro, or grappa) and then, slowly, we transfer to the Catania International Airport, in order to check in and catch our plane to Malta.

DAY 5: Arrival in Malta - welcome again!!!!!

Welcome and assistance by our Tour Guide at Malta International Airport and followed by direct transfer to the Hotel. Non Alcoholic Welcome Drink during separate Checking Desk at Hotel. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

DAY 6: The Fugitives.

In the morning, after breakfast, we’ll offer to our group a half day team building programme in Valletta, the guests will be involved in the research of some fugitives that ran away after stealing a precious object! The group is divided into teams, supplied with gaming materials, all teams competing with the others to find, identify and return the fugitives to captivity.

It is also possible that we extend the duration in Valletta so as to give the group time at leisure and also to keep on discovering Malta’s Capital at their own pace.

DAY 7: Full Day – Prehistoric.

Departure from hotel in coach accompanied by our Tour Guide, we transfer to the south to visit Hagar Qim temple which is unique among the Maltese temples. Just a short walking distance away we will be able to see the Mnajdra Temple, down the hill from Hagar Qim.

We then drive to Wied iz-Zurrieq which is also a small fishing village. Subject to weather permitting we may take a small fishing boat to visit the Blue Grotto Cave which can be reached only by sea. The cave is 40 metres in circumference and reaches a depth of 26 metres. The Blue Grotto faces east and it is at its best in the morning because the sunrays floodlight the entire grotto revealing its beauty. In the afternoon we drive to Marsaxlokk which is Malta’s largest village. Here one will be able to watch the fishermen mending their nets or painting their boats but above all admire this quaint village full of typical colourful fishing boats. (On Sunday morning there is a lively market). Finally we drive to Birzebbugia to visit Ghar Dalam which is a 144 metres long natural cave. The cave is renowned for the remains of animals that lived on the island thousands of years ago. The massive stalactites and stalagmites, which it contains, reveal its very great antiquity. Back to the hotel and free time.

In the evening, departure from hotel by coach to the Old Capital - Mdina. Upon arrival group will be welcomed by an entourage of artists (actors, musicians, torchbearers) in costume .

They will greet and escort them through the narrow streets of Mdina until they reach Bastions Square where they are served aperitifs, giving guests time to enjoy their aperitifs as much as the panorama. The ceremonials can also be extended during dinner. Then the master of ceremonies invites our guests to follow him towards the selected restaurant. Dine in truly romantic surroundings beneath the flowering Oleander tree in the vine clustered courtyard during the summer, and by candle-light and an open log fireplace that keeps the restaurant warm during the winter months. The restaurant is a mixture of ingredients designed to please the most discerning clients. After dinner we drive back to the hotel for overnight.

DAY 8: Goodbye Malta!

Our stay on the Islands has come to an end but it will give us unforgettable memories to share with our friends! We check out and meet our tour guide, then depart Hotel for transfer to Malta International Airport, for our flight back home. Have a nice trip back!!!