--- title: Palermo Walking Tour and Street Food lang: en type: tour city: Palermo country: Italy price: 46 currency: EUR price_unit: per_person availability: bookable rating: 4.89 reviews: 640 duration_minutes: 180 languages: [en, it] free_cancellation: true guidekin_pick: Cathedral entry and tastings rank_in_category: 9 of 14 (Street Food & Market Tours) schedule_checked: 2026-09-29 data_updated: 2026-09-30 canonical: https://guidekin.com/italy/palermo/tours/palermo-walking-tour-and-street-food/ --- # Palermo Walking Tour and Street Food **Guidekin's take:** The market walk that also takes you inside Palermo Cathedral, with a local guide, food tastings and a drink in the price. Cruise passengers are collected at the port in the morning but not taken back, souvenir photos cost extra, and a wheelchair needs flagging when you book. 4.89 from 640 reviews at €46 per person for 3h. ## Overview Enjoy and taste the street food in the old markets of Palermo observing people, products, colors and characters from another time. The smells and the flavors will accompany you during three unforgettable hours during which you will see also the Cathedral of Palermo ## Before you book - Meeting point: Only for cruise passenger. - Min. 2 to book: not for solo travellers - Starts 10:30: one departure a day - Food included: Food tasting, Drink (water, beer or coca… - Wheelchair accessible: operator-marked - Strollers OK: infants accepted - Children from €16: ages 9 to 14 ## Key facts - Price: from €46 per person - Duration: 3h - Rating: 4.89/5 from 640 reviews (collected from Guidekin & Viator & Tripadvisor) - Free cancellation (see policy below) - Recommended by 98% of travellers (share of four- and five-star reviews) - Operator: Cavallaro Fabrizio - Minimum booking: 2 travellers at this price ## What's included - Local guide - Visit of the Palermo Cathedral - Pick up at 10:00 am to the port for cruise passengers. (Please send a message to the tour guide). - Suggestions about more attractions to visit in Palermo or about more food to eat. - Food tasting - Drink (water, beer or coca cola) ## Not included - Souvenir photos (available to purchase) - Drop off to the port ## Itinerary 1. **Teatro dell'Opera dei Pupi** (10m; admission included) - Puppet opera is a particular type of puppet theatre, which emerged in southern Italy and particularly in Sicily in the early 1800s, is Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. 2. **Teatro Massimo** (15m) - It is the largest Opera House in Italy, the third one in Europe. It was built in 1875 and its history is full of legends. 3. **Capo Street Market** (30m; admission included) - The best street food market in Palermo 4. **The best street food shop (friggitoria) in the old center of Palermo** (45m; admission included) 5. **Beati Paoli is the name of a secretive sect thought to have existed in mediev...** (10m) - Beati Paoli is the name of a secretive sect thought to have existed in medieval Sicily. The sect, as described by the author Luigi Natoli in his historic novel I Beati Paoli. Whereas the novel is fictitious, Sicily's history bears some evidence that the Beati Paoli actually... 6. **Palermo Cathedral** (20m; admission included) - The Cathedral of Palermo is the most important monument of the “Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedrals of Cefalù and Monreale” site inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO on 2015. The Cathedral of Palermo was founded by Gualtiero Offamilio, archbishop of the town from... 7. **Cassaro Alto** (15m) - It is the most ancient street of Palermo. From the 16th century the street also named Via Toledo. After the unification of Italy, it was renamed Via Vittorio Emanuele II, but the old name is still in use. 8. **Quattro Canti** (10m) - , or Vigliena square, is the name of the octagonal square in the intersection between the two most important streets in Palermo: via Maqueda and Cassaro (corso Vittorio Emanuele). Ancients sources refers about it as “Octagon” or “Sun’s Theatre”, because during the daylight... ## Schedule - Runs: daily - Departures: 10:30 - Schedule last checked: 2026-09-29 - These are published departures, not a live seat count; availability is confirmed at checkout. ## Cancellation For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time. ## Meeting point Only for cruise passenger. It is at 10:00a.m. just outside the cruise terminal If the ship arrives at 9.00am or earlier, we meet the cruise passenger cruise at 10.00. If the ship arrive later, please contact us to ask a different pick-up hour. Map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ5d8l1_vlGRMRq9PITRA08_0 ## Good to know - Wheelchair accessible - Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller - Transportation options are wheelchair accessible - Suitable for all physical fitness levels - Wheelchair accessible: please, when you book the tour communicate there is a partecipant with wheelchair - Children must be accompanied by an adult - Free Child applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults (2 adults with 2 free child maximum). - If you are solo traveller contact us to know if there is a tour already organized. - If you want gluten free food, please ask us 24 hour before. - If you want vegetarian Street food, please us us when you reserve the tour ## Compared with other Street Food & Market Tours | Tour | Price | Duration | Rating | Group | |---|---|---|---|---| | **This tour · #9 of 14** | €46 | 3h | 4.89 (640) | shared | | [Palermo Food Tour: 10+ Tastings of Arancini, Cannoli, Wine & More](/italy/palermo/tours/palermo-food-tour-10-tastings-of-arancini-cannoli-wine-more/?format=md) | €76 | 3h 30m | 4.97 (831) | shared | | [Palermo Ballaro Market & Street Food Tour by Eating Europe](/italy/palermo/tours/palermo-ballaro-market-street-food-tour-by-eating-europe/?format=md) | €48 | 3h | 4.97 (150) | shared | | [Walking Tour and street food Tour Palermo / History and Food](/italy/palermo/tours/walking-tour-and-street-food-tour-palermo-history-and-food/?format=md) | €50 | 3h | 4.94 (402) | shared | Ranked #9 of 14 in Street Food & Market Tours by Guidekin score (rating weighted by review volume). Prices here run from €35 to €306, median €74; typical length 3h. 1 of 14 are private. Figures are live from the tour cards; the rubric is our handpicked set, not the whole market. Full list: https://guidekin.com/italy/palermo/food-tours-palermo/?format=md ## More in Palermo - All Palermo tours: https://guidekin.com/italy/palermo/?format=md - This page as HTML: https://guidekin.com/italy/palermo/tours/palermo-walking-tour-and-street-food/ ## Query this catalogue with URLs Every listing accepts filter parameters directly in the URL, so you can hand a user a link that already matches their constraints. Combine freely on https://guidekin.com/italy/palermo/: | Group | Parameters | Values | |---|---|---| | Language of the tour | `language` | any ISO 639-1 code an operator lists, e.g. en, es, fr, de, it, pt, ru, uk, tr, hi. 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