Tours & Activities Experience the culture, activities, food, wine, art and excursions into nature, completed with an in-depth study of the work of the antimafia movement. Always in the spirit of responsible tourism.
Travel with us Discover Sicily and say no to the Mafia
Mafia-free accomodation Do you want to book a holiday in Sicily in a mafia-free hotel, B&B or farmhouse? Refer to the accommodation listed here.
Palermo NoMafia Learn about the Mafia and the civil antimafia movement whilst walking through the picturesque historic centre of Palermo. Discover a city that is finally rebelling against the Mafia’s protection racket.
Study Trips Designed for school and university students, these training courses are aimed not only at increasing the student’s knowledge of a certain topic, but also at broadening their understanding of different ways in which it is possible to make a contribution to society. Our study trips take a refreshed approach to learning and provide students with a totally new perspective on social and cultural issues.
No Mafia - one day tours One day tours in Palermo and its surroundings where you can learn about the Mafia and the civil antimafia movement.
Self-guided tours To discover Sicily with autonomy and at any time of the year. Addiopizzo Travel will take care of booking your overnight stays, cultural experiences and important engagements. We will provide you with a detailed itinerary, so you won’t miss anything. At the same time you will be able to enjoy your stay at your own pace, in total freedom!
Bike tour From Palermo to Corleone, in the territory where the Mafia was born and subsequently thrived, the winds of change are blowing. An entire generation of people have said no to the Mafia and are building a new Sicily. We invite you to explore it for yourself, our bike tours are the ideal way to appreciate and take in the surrounding beauty.
People&Places makes the travel experience unique
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Agrigento The ruins of the Temple Valley, the counrtyside dotted with almond trees, the sea far on the horizon: the Classical Antiquity penetrate in the traveler's soul with a perfect armony of history, architecture and landscape.
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The 'Falcone Tree' Placed in front of the house of the anti-mafia prosecutor, after the massacre of Capaci this tree became the symbol of the rebellion against the mafia and of the rebirth of the Sicilian people.
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Aspra It’s a small fishermen village set on the promontory that closes at east the Gulf of Palermo. The small harbor is a string of peculiar wooden boats jauntily colored.
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Bagheria The “Town of the Villas” is famous especially because of the most bizarre of the residences of the nobles, the “Villa of the Monsters”.
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Capaci Capaci is one of the places that represent instantaneously both the brutal mafia’s violence and the Sicilians’ rebellion against the oppression exercised by Cosa Nostra. On the 23rd of May of 1992 the anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and three men of their security detail were killed.
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Capo Gallo A small but spectacular marine reserve very close to the city.
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Capo Rama The oriented natural Reserve of Capo Rama is a rock platform precipitous on the sea, rugged and savage, covered by a thick vegetation of cactus, agaves, and other plants that resist to sun and salt.
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Cefalù A picturesque town on the coast between Palermo and Messina, whose silouhette in unmistakable thanks to the cliff of the "Rocca" and to the belltowers of the Arab-Norman Duomo.
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Cinisi The city in which Peppino Impastato, young activist who rebelled against the mafia inside and outside his home, lived, and where he was killed because of his rebellion in 1978.
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Corleone Thousands of people in the world have heard about Corleone: mainly because of the mafia, and also because of Hollywood. But only a few of them have seen it with their own eyes. And who did has been fascinated by it.
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Erice On the top of Monte San Giuliano, the medieval village of Erice rises up, with its perfectly preserved old town centre, the bare stone houses, the cobblestone alleys and 360 degrees landscape overlooking the backcountry, Trapani and the Egadi islands.
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Ficuzza Fully immerged in in the woods appears the town of Ficuzza, with a few dozens of inhabitants and a few, small houses wrapped around the majestic “Real Casina di Caccia”, a realm that used to belong to the Borbone.
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Isola delle Femmine It is a small village of fishermen a few miles away from Palermo. The same name identifies also the small island located in front of the village, less than a mile from the shore.
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Lago Poma An artificial basin that has been created in the 1960s because of the will of the people, thanks to the non-violent battles of Danilo Dolci, the “Gandhi of Sicily”.
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Marsala The name of this small town with a Mediterranean flavor is related to the production of the famous fortified wine and to landing of Garibaldi, from there the Italian national hero began the unification of Italy. In the nearby, the Saline (=salt pans) of the Stagnone: there, everyday, the sunset is an unforgettable natural show.
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Mondello An enchanting beach, a crystal clear sea, the liberty-style houses built during the first years of the 1900, and a picturesque small port that reminds of the origins of Mondello as sea village.
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Monreale Set on the hills that dominate the Conca D’oro, the valley that surrounds Palermo, famous for its Arabic-Norman Cathedral, Monreale is at the center of an agricultural territory that today takes back and makes productive the lands that used to belong to the mafia bosses.
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Monte Pellegrino According to Goethe, this is “the most beautiful promontory in the world”. I stands out lonely as a sentinel in front of the sea, making the skyline of Palermo and Mondello unique.
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Palazzo Adriano Charming village of the Sicilian inland, immerged in luxuriant nature, Palazzo Adriano was selected by the movie director Giuseppe Tornatore for the movie “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”, which won the Oscar in 1990 for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Palermo It is impossible to describe the Sicilian capital without noting its contrasts: elegance and decadence, light and shadow, rich and poor, metropolitan and provincial, joy and sorrow, perfumes and stenches, Mafia and Anti-Mafia. A city which captivates, stupefies, and sometimes shocks visitors; it certainly isn’t an experience one forgets.
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Piana degli Albanesi A Greek-Albanian enclave, this place has maintained its traditions intact. Every Sunday, the shores of its lake attract hikers and families willing to relax, as well as its famous cannoli attracts the gourmands.
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Portella della Ginestra Here, on May 1 1947, the bandit Salvatore Giuliano and his gang shooted on a crowd gathered to celebrate the Labour Day. Eleven people were killed. The history on the new born Italian Republic started with such a massacre.
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Sant'Angelo Muxaro A little and fascinating village few kilometers far from Agrigento
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Selinunte The ancient Greek town rised up on a calcareous plateau overhanging the sea, between two rivers. Once rich and densely populated, it was destroyed by the Carthaginians and then by a violent earthquake in the Byzantine period (VI-IX century). A walk in the vast aera of the archaeological park (the largest in Europe), through the ruins of ...
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Terrasini Picturesque fishermen village; its beveled shore offers a continuous series of striking panoramas on bays, beaches and towers.
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Via d'Amelio In this place the anti-mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino and 5 members of his security detail died on the 19th of June 1992. The mafia blew off a bomb hidden in a car parked in the street while the prosecutor was going to visit his mother.
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Anna Puglisi Cofounder with her husband Umberto Santino of the “Centro siciliano di documentazione Giuseppe Impastato”, she is the author of numerous biographies of Sicilian women, victims of the mafia or anti-mafia militant activists. She has founded in 1984 the Association of Sicilian women fighting against th...
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Antonio Vassallo Photographer of Capaci, he was there when, on the 23rd of May 1992 the mafia blew up the interstate where Giovanni Falcone was traveling, killing him together with his wife and the men of his security detail. He took a few pictures right after the massacre, providing them to the investigators.
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Don Cosimo Scordato Anti-mafia priest who is fully committed on the territory, he has founded in 1985 the “Centro Sociale San Saverio” in the neighborhood called Albergheria in Palermo, becoming the promoter of a series of grassroots initiatives: housing, employment, redevelopment, and aid to children and seniors.
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Donatella Pucci Owner of the Agriturismo Guarnera, Donatella has been actively involved in both the antimafia and the environmentalist cause with the determination of a lion.
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Fabio Conticello Owner of the famous Palermitano restaurant Antica Foccaceria San Francesco, Fabio decided along with his brother Vincenzo to report all extortionate demands to the police. This was a courageous act which made them a symbol of the rebellion against the mafia, a choice which has since been imitated by...
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Florinda Saieva Together with the husband Andrea Bartoli, she created Farm Cultural Park in the historic center of Favara, close to Agrigento. It is a project of urban and social renewal focused on Contemporary Art.
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Gery Ferrara Assistant district attorney of the Republic in Palermo, he has especially dealt with crimes related to drug trafficking and to the environment. He participated as speaker in several international meetings.
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Giovanni Impastato Younger brother of Peppino Impastato, the activist killed by the mafia in 1978, is among the founders of the “Casa Memoria Felicia e Peppino Impastato”. His heart-felt and sincere voice tells the conflict of whom experienced both the mafia and the anti-mafia inside his own home, together with the st...
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Guido Agnello Sicilian entrepreneur, dynamic and prolific with ideas, he is the creator of the brand “La Coppola Storta”, which is a commercial and cultural operation aimed to give back to the Sicilian people a garment that symbolizes the identity of an entire people, and that has been usurped for too long by the...
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Libera activists The activists of the association created by Don Ciotti promote the social re-utilization of the goods seized from the mafia. Some of them manage first-hand agricultural companies and agritourisms built on lands that used to belong to the most powerful exponents of the mafia.
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Marilena Bagarella She was born in Corleone and she still lives there. Manager of the "Laboratory of Legality", she mainly works on education and non-profit networks.
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Moltivolti Moltivolti is a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic project: a restaurant with a Sicilian-ethnic and popular cuisine and a co-working space dedicated to the third sector.
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Pierfilippo Spoto Trekking guide specialized in relational tourism in Sicily
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Umberto Santino Founder of the “Centro siciliano di documentazione Giuseppe Impastato” of Palermo, he is one of the main scholars of the mafia phenomenon, author of a numerous literary essays, as well as one of the most rigorous and steadfast anti-mafia militant activist.
TRAVELBLOG News, events, videos and posts from our social networks

No Mafia Memorial: the first phase completed
Mayor Leoluca Orlando has officially presented the keys of Palazzo Gulì to Umberto Santino, the president of Centro Impastato. It is here where the antimafia museum of Palermo will be born. Project partners to include both Comitato Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Travel.
Why you should book a place on our Palermo NoMafia tour!
Read what Charlotte Higgins thinks about Palermo and our NoMafia tour in her article for Travel and Leisure, ‘Why you should book a trip to Palermo now, before the rest of the world does’.The Youth Social Entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean Region
Oxfam Italy realized a dossier about social and young entrepreneurship in the mediterranean for the Med project, including the Addiopizzo Travel's experience among good practicies-cool people.
Addiopizzo Travel: Leading the revolution
In this is an English translation of the article by Professor Nino Vaccaro. Together with Matthew Lee e Tommaso Ramus, he made a research about Addiopizzo Travel, approved by the Academy of Management Journal..gif)
TO DO Contest 2018, last call for entries
We are glad to contribute to spread the information about the new edition of the award won by Addiopizzo Travel in 2011..jpg)
No Mafia: Let's Give Color to our Dreams
Celebration in Capaci (Palermo) on the 21st of May, two days before the anniversary of the massacre that in 1992 killed the prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, his wife and his bodyguards.
Schwelle Foundations Peace Award
We have the privilege to tell you that Addiopizzo has been nominated for the International Bremen Peace Award 2017, in the category 'Encouraging Initiatives'.Kathryn
...a fantastic and very illuminating tour!