Your driver drops you at Piazza Guglielmo II, the square that faces the facade of the Monreale Cathedral. Inside, the walls and ceilings are covered by more than 130 Byzantine mosaics across an area exceeding 6,000 square meters, a scale that remains extraordinary. The adjacent Diocesan Museum houses liturgical objects, sacred vestments, and a cycle of over 1,700 frescoes. From Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, the Fontana del Tritone and the Belvedere viewpoint offer a calm finishing point before departing for Bagheria.

In Bagheria, the itinerary centers on Villa Palagonia, often called the Villa of the Monsters. The triumphal-arch entrance leads to an avenue lined with sixty-two surviving sculptures of grotesque figures and animals, remnants of an original collection of two hundred. The villa attracted notable visitors including Goethe and Salvador Dali, and served as a filming location for productions by Alberto Lattuada, Marco Bellocchio, and Giuseppe Tornatore.

The Cefalù segment begins along the Lungomare Giuseppe Giardina and continues into the narrow streets of the historic centre via Via Vittorio Emanuele. Along the route you pass the medieval washhouse, reached by a lava stone staircase, where water from the Cefalino river has flowed for centuries. Porta Pescara offers a glimpse of the sea before the path opens onto Piazza Marina and the old port.

Via Carlo Ortolani di Bordonaro leads to the Bastione di Capo Marchiafava, an ancient defensive structure converted over time into a panoramic lookout with views stretching along the coast to the Aeolian Islands. From there, Corso Ruggero leads directly to the town hall square, where the Cathedral of Cefalù stands with the Rocca rising behind it. The town's sandy beach, considered among the finest in Sicily, is accessible nearby before the return journey to Palermo.