LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Splendida Italia by Picasso Travel is offering an eight day/seven night tour package that showcases the very best of Sicily's rich architectural heritage and popular historic sites from the Valley of the Temples to Mount Etna. The tour is a great way to experience this part of Italy and it is attractively priced at $1039, per person double occupancy, or $1305 single.

This Sicily package includes seven nights of accommodations at the well-known Jolly Hotel chain throughout the island; all meals, beginning with dinner on the first day through breakfast on the eighth day; portage at all hotels, entrance fees; luxury motorcoach travel with tour escort and local guides, where necessary, and the Messina ferry.

Departure dates in Sicily are Nov. 10 and Dec. 8 in 2007 and Jan.12, 19, Feb. 2, 16 and March 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 in 2008. Cities to be visited on this trip include Palermo, Monreale, Messina, Capo D' Orlando, Reggio Calabria, Cefalu, Taormina, Siracusa, Catania, Piazza Armerina, Agrigento, Segesta, Erice and Trapani. There is also a special package, priced slightly higher for travelers wishing to take the Sicily tour and spend New Year's Eve in Palermo, Sicily.

In conjunction with land packages, Splendida Italia can provide the best international airfare to Sicily available at time of booking.

For more information about this special Sicily in the Winter tour package, contact Splendida Italia at 1-800-995-7997 (Monday through Friday, 7 a.m.-5:00 p.m. PST) or visit its web site at http://www.picassotours.com/.

Splendida Italia is owned and operated by Picasso Travel, one of the largest air consolidators in North America in business for more than 28 years. Picasso Travel is a member of ASTA, IATA, CLIA, USACA, ARC and BTC.

CONTACT: Nancy Vaughan of Vaughan Communications, +1-602-912-9126,
nvaughanpr@aol.com, for Splendida Italia by Picasso Travel

Web site: http://www.picassotours.com/