In the lovely town of Trabia, close to Termini Imerese, the well-known Sicilian tourist resort, stands the refined Torre Artale Hotel Residence complex, housed in a fascinating “baglio”, once a noble residence Surrounded by gardens, the hotel offers suites and large apartments, a renewed restaurant, many sports facilities and it makes a sophisticated setting for pleasant meetings and every kind of events. Rooms Torre Artale Hotel Residence has 114 rooms, 54 in the main building (6 single rooms, 34 double rooms,14 superior). All rooms are equipped with direct phone, TV, minibar on request, air conditioning/heating, hairdryer, courtesy linen. In the dependence, called Rosa marina, there are 60 double rooms, equipped with direct phone and air conditioning. Apartments Torre Artale Hotel residence is composed by a lot of apartments, located from 100 to 1000 meters from the main building. The apartments are available in 3 different typologies: 10 bilocali for 2/3 pax 105 trilocali for 4/5 pax 10 quadrilocali for 6/7 pax All the apartments are composed by 1/2/3 bedrooms (if bilo/trilo/quadrilo), a living room with kitchen corner, a bathroom with bath-tub or shower, parking, garden, balcony or parvis. Restaurant The Restaurant of Torre Artale Hotel Residence offers to guests a wide selection of traditional Sicilian and Italian dishes. This is the schedule: 1. Breakfast 07,00 am - 10,00 am 2. Lunch 12,30 pm - 02,00 pm 3. Dinner 07,30 pm - 09,30 pm A various breakfast buffet includes: three kinds of bread, three kinds of oven product, such as plum cakes and croissants, corn flakes, eggs, bacon, butter, different kinds of jam and honey, yoghurt, two kinds of cold cuts and one of cheese, two kinds of fruits in syrup, American coffee, milk, tea and tisanes and three kinds of fruit juices. Lunch and dinner are served at the table or in a buffet in the “Pagoda” and “Torchio” Restaurants. According to the season and to the number of people, the daily or weekly gastronomy plan could change. Besides, the Hotel organizes some evenings dedicated to particular subjects. The buffet gastronomic offer includes: • Cheese; • Cold cuts; • Grilled vegetables and salads; • First courses; • Dishes of meat or fish; • Side dishes; • Fruits and desserts. The restaurants are equipped with air conditioning. Torre Artale has a renewed restaurant housed in a converted oil mill, with a total capacity of 300 seats. INDOOR ROOMS: • Pagode seats 300 • Torchio seats 230 OUTDOOR ROOMS: Prato seats 500 Meeting & Congress The Hotel is also indicated for incentives, congresses and meetings. The Conference Centre offers 3 rooms, 1 conference room called Club House with a seating capacity of 120 people, 1 Meeting room for 80 guests and 1 Lecture room for 25 people. EXHIBITION AREAS: various indoor and outdoor areas Technical equipment free of charge: - sound system; - overhead projector; - fixed microphones; - platform; - piper flip board; - DIA projector. - screen; - hospitality desk; Technical equipment and services to pay: - wireless microphones; - laser pointer; - simultaneous translation; - interpreting services; - teleconference; - video beamer. - technical assistance; POST-CONGRESS SERVICES : - theme parties; - gala evenings (indoor and outdoor); - performance; - folk groups; Services The hotel Torre Artale offers: - 2 swimming pools (1 for children) with a large solarium; - 4 tennis courts in supreme and 1 in synthetic grass; - 1 multi-function area (volleyball, basketball); - 2 bowling greens; - 1 soccer; - 1 mini golf; - a private beach BAR: • Hall Bar opens everyday from h. 10,00am to 12,00p.m,; • Bar Piscina opens from h.10,00 am to 6,30pm from June to September; OTHER SERVICES: • SAFETY BOX: available, free of charge, at the Reception. • PARKING: free of charge and unguarded. • SHUTTLE SERVICE: free of charge, from e to San Nicola L’Arena (every day from 01/06 to 30/09, with fixed schedule); free of charge, from and to the beach (every day from 15/06 to 15/09, with fixed schedule). • BAZAR: it offers typical products, souvenir, cosmetics, newspapers and magazine. It is open from 01/06 until 15/09 from 10:00 am to 01:00 pm and from 04:00 pm to 06:30 pm. Week Holiday Seven unforgettable days to discover a land rich of history, architecture, folklore, traditions. A special vacation that offer you relax, activities and leisure. We have selected for you the most funny entertainment plan, and the most evocative excursions, the most competitive sport activities and the richest culinary nights, in which our chefs will fill you with pleasure thanks to the typical Sicilian recipes, such as croquettes, arancinette, pasta con le sarde, sfincioni and caponata, or thanks to an international and refined menu in the evenings dedicated to particular subjects. You can also taste various recipes coming from several Mediterranean countries. Besides, there will be some big barbecues, in which our chefs will serve you vegetables, meats and fishes just cooked for you! Finally, there will be a symphony of flavours for the lovers of the most appreciated dishes all around the world, such as pasta and pizza and for the greediest ones local sweets and much more… • Saturday: A warm cocktail will open your evening and you will have the opportunity to discover the Hotel. You will find out more about sport activities, interesting excursions and a really good culinary plan, thanks to the Torre Artale Hotel Residence staff. You will be involved in a funny night and, after midnight, you can enjoy yourself with our disco… • Sunday: You will have many interesting options with our entertainment staff, compete in sport activities, enjoy the sun in the swimming pool or dive in the blue sea of Trabia. After Lunch, if you want, you could participate at the first unforgettable evening excursion. The destination is Cefalù, with its sea village, the sandy beaches and the beautiful Norman Cathedral. After dinner, the night in our disco want you as protagonist • Monday: Leisure, sport, relax, sea, gastronomy, meetings and friendship: for you at the Torre Artale Hotel Residence! If you want, you can buy a nice excursion to Palermo. You can explore the wonderful aristocratic Sicilian capital. The shining buildings, the old Chapel and the sparkle Monreale’s Cathedral dazzle you! You will be involved in a funny night and, after midnight, you can enjoy yourself with our disco… • Tuesday: You will have many interesting options with our entertainment staff, compete in sport activities, enjoy the sun in the swimming pool or dive in the blue sea of Trabia. Thanks to the optional full day excursion, you will visit the Etna and Taormina, you can go as far as 2.000 metres of altitude and see the Silvestri Craters. The rough beauty of the highest Volcano in Europe, Mt Etna, with its lava flows and luxuriant forests will fascinate you. Then the journey will continue toward Taormina, the pearl of the Sicilian tourism, with the amazing Greek Theatre, the medieval streets and the needlework, wrought iron and antique-trade shops. After dinner, the night in our disco excursions want you as protagonist! • Wednesday: Leisure, sport, relax, sea, gastronomy, meetings and friendship: for you at the Torre Artale Hotel Residence! If you want you can buy an excursion that will give you the possibility to discover the wonders of Madonie Park, a botanical paradise, together with its peaks reaching 1.979 metres of height, natural habitat of more than the half of the 2.600 animal species living in Sicily. It is possible to admire wonderful landscapes from several points, such as the volcano Etna, the Nebrodi, and the Eolian Islands. You will be involved in a funny night and, after midnight, you can enjoy yourself with our disco… • Thursday: You will have many interesting options with our entertainment staff, compete in sport activities, enjoy the sun in the swimming pool or dive in the blue sea of Trabia. Thanks to another optional full day excursion, you will visit the Eolian Islands. You will discover the beauty of the two biggest ones among the Seven Sisters, that is the nickname of the Archipelago’s Islands. You will visit the charmest one, Lipari, with its small stores, and the wild Volcano with its black sands and fumaroles. After dinner, the night in our disco want you as protagonist! • Friday: Leisure, sport, relax, sea, gastronomy, meetings, friendship: for you at the Torre Artale Hotel Residence! Another optional excursion, another destination: Agrigento. You will find yourself in the famous “Valle dei Templi” and at the Archaeological Museum of the old colony of Akragas. You will be involved in a funny night and, after midnight, you can enjoy yourself with our disco… • Saturday: After the last morning spent at the swimming pool or at the seaside, you can have your lunch before leaving. Charm smiles and see you next time, here at the Torre Artale Hotel Residence…. We are waiting for you! SPORTS FACILITIES 5 tennis courts, that is a synthetic grass court and 4 supreme court, a polyvalent playground (basketball and volleyball), a minigolf course with 9 holes, bowling green, ping pong, five-a-side football, solarium, a swimming pool for kids, an Olympic swimming pool with stands and changing rooms (from 15/04 until 31/10 from 09:00 am to 01:00 pm and from 02:00 pm to 06:00 pm). Sport facilities are equipped with night lighting, for a fee. ENTERTAINMENT From 01/06 to 30/09. Daily plan (subject to alterations according to the period of the leisure activities) • 9,30 am Muscular Awaking; • 10,00 am The offers of the moment; • 10,30 am Sport or dancing; • 11,30 pm You can keep yourself in good shape with the Aqua gym; • 12,30 pm Appetizer game; • 2,00 pm A break with the coffee game; • 4,00 pm Draughts game, cards game (Dama, scopone scientifico, Scala quaranta, Briscola, Scopa); • 4,30 pm Still game! • 5,00 pm Latin and Caribbean dancing lessons; • 5,30 pm Aerobics lessons; • 6,00 pm Have a good time with the gags of our team; • 6,30 pm Appetizer game; • 10,00 pm Different shows each night: Piano bar, Cabaret, and Election of Miss and Mister; • 11,00 pm Listen to the music and dance with us or savour the night to the disco. Kids activities • 10,00 am/1,00 pm Games, show and a lot of fun; • 04,30 pm/06,30 pm Still fun…; • 09,30 pm Disco baby. Palermo & surroundings Palermo is the most noble Sicilian city. Its rich history is featured by the different and conflicting civilisations that have determined the different aspects of the town: the rich Arab city made of gorgeous buildings and luxuriant tropical gardens, the cultured and refined city of Frederick II, the baroque city or the liberty and elegant one. In the historical and artistic city centre you can find the most important evidences of these cultures: the Cathedral, the Royal Palace and the Cappella Palatina, “S. Giovanni degli Eremiti” and the “Martorana “church, the “Politeama” and “Massimo” Theatres. The history - related gastronomic traditions are characterised by a rich, fragrant and original taste. Nearby Palermo you can find part of the great heritage of the Island. From the beautiful Monreale with the precious Cathedral Mosaic and the seventeenth century Cloister to the Solanto Castle and the little town of Santa Flavia (15 km. far from Palermo); from the Solunto archaeological park, one of the main Punic city of Sicily, to the beautiful eighteenth – century villas of Bagheria . Furthermore the marvellous “Capo Zafferano” gulf and the “Scoglio della Formica”, the ideal place for underwater fishing lovers.