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Our Messina pizza making experience is a perfect way to learn how to make pizza, just a few steps away from the cruise port. Meet your tour leader at the cruise port and on foot reach a typical Sicilian restaurant, located right in the city center.
After meeting the professional chef, you will start the pizza-making class together: you will learn the secrets of a professional cook, and you will be able to ask your questions. After preparing your pizza, it’s time for a break! You can’t come to Messina and not admire the mechanical clock of the bell tower in action at noon! This is the most important attraction in the city center, located in the Cathedral Square of Messina. We will walk to the Square right on time to attend the “show”. At the end of the show, it will finally be time for lunch! Back at the restaurant, we will have our tasty pizza ready for lunch.
The Messina pizza making experience will be completed by another Sicilian “must”: the Sicilian cannolo. Just crossing the street, we will step into a small local bakery, where you can taste a Cannolo alla ricotta (the traditional one with sweet ricotta), or Cannolo al cioccolato, with chocolate, if you don’t like ricotta.
Nearby the bakery, an ancient architectural gem is ready for you to visit: the Catalans Church. This church survived the earthquake of 1908, and it stands at the old city level.
Leisurely return to the ship or enjoy some more time in the city center before heading back on foot to the ship.
Messina pizza making: meet the chef at the restaurant and have fun prepring your pizza. He will teach you all the secrets to cook the perfect pizza and dressing it with your favorite ingredients.
Bell tower of the Cathedral of Messina:
The cathedral of Messina is famous for the impressive bell tower, hosting several bronzed statues that everyday at noon move, symbolizing the civil and religious tradition of the city. When in Messina, this is the must-see, and you won’t miss it during our Messina pizza making
Tell us in advance if you have any food allergies, intolerances, or special needs: alternatives are available.
This experience doesn’t involve the use of transportation. The restaurant and the bell tower are within a walking distance from the cruise port.
At Messina cruise port or your accommodation in Messina, you will meet our professional tour guide who will lead you on a short walk to reach the restaurant.
Once at the restaurant, you will meet the chef of a famous restaurant, and after an introduction to the activity, you will finally start your Messina pizza making experience, lasting an hour. You will learn in detail how to make the perfect pizza dough and ask all your questions to the chef.
Shortly before noon, after having prepared your pizza, you will follow your tour guide to Cathedral Square to enjoy the bell tower show with mechanisms of the golden bronze statues accompanied by Schubert's Ave Maria music.
After the end of the bell tower show, take your time to have a look inside the Cathedral, you won't be disappointed by the wonderful artworks, the mosaics, and the ceiling!
After the visit, you will go back to the restaurant where the pizza you prepared will be waiting for you. It's finally time to taste!
Before ending the tour, you can't miss a Sicilian Cannolo in one of the best bakeries of the historic center. Choose your favorite flavor: the traditional ricotta or the cioccolato
Right next to the bakery, you can visit the Catalani Church, a real treasure in the city, as it survived the earthquake of 1908. The old church has a very special architectural style, and it is still located at the old lower level of the city, before the earthquake.
After lunch, your tour guide will walk you back to the cruise terminal, or you can decide to spend some free time in the city center of Messina and return to the port or hotel at your own pace.
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Our Messina cooking class will start from the cruise port of Messina or from our office located at Via I Settembre, 110, Messina.
