A fantastic journey that takes us back to a world not too far away, in between dream and reality, places that are suspended half way between movies and reality. This tour takes you to discover Sicily’s history and culture during the mid-‘800, a time of great social and political changes: a social system firmly based on a rich and noble dominating class, is shaken to its roots by the Garibaldi uprisings; a time made of struggles, barricades and city insurrections. This tour will take us to the places that the writer Tomasi di Lampedusa loved and visited, and which are the backdrop to episodes of his renown novel The Leopard. This itinerary meanders through two of Palermo’s districts, the “Loggia” and the “Kalsa”, and connects the writer’s two town houses. The beautiful Palazzo Ganci Valguarnera is the place where The Leopard movie’s dance scene was shot, and Villa Niscemi and Villa Boscogrande are, in the movie, the family homes. Leaving Palermo and moving on to the province of Agrigento, we will travel across amazing landscapes and learn stories of an authentic Sicily. The fief of Donnafugata, although a place of fantasy in the novel, is in reality two different mansions: the palace of Saint Margaret of Belìce and the town of Palma di Montechiaro, holiday places that marked the childhood of Tomasi di Lampedusa; real treasures are kept in the two towns historical centers.