A geography school trip to Italy offers your students the chance to explore Sicily, one of the largest islands in the Mediterranean!
With its varied landscapes and spectacular coastline, the island offers a geographical diversity of unspoilt seabeds and fertile volcanic slopes, making it a fascinating destination for a geography school trip.
Make sure you include a visit to Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest active volcano, and enjoy breathtaking views of the volcanic landscape from its summit.
Suggested Itinerary (4 days, 3 nights)
| Day | Morning Summary | Afternoon Summary | Evening Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Transfer to airport |
Flight from the UK to Catania |
Evening meal at the hotel |
| 2 |
Full-day excursion to Mount Etna, with lava tubing and a visit to the film exhibition |
Return to hotel for evening meal |
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| 3 |
Full-day excursion to Alcantara Gorge and Giardini Naxos |
Return to hotel for evening meal |
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| 4 |
Transfer to airport for return flight to the UK |
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- 3 nights' half-board accommodation
- Airport taxes and passenger duty at current rates
- ATOL protected return flights from the UK
- Comprehensive travel and medical insurance
- Detailed information pack
- Excursion to Mount Etna - including Mount Etna cable car with 4x4 and alpine guide, and Stromboli
- Free staff place ratio 1:10
- Itinerary planning service
- Return airport transfers in resort
- Vamoos travel app - giving you access to all your trip documents on your phone or tablet
- VAT at current rates to tour operators
Curriculum Links
A-Level
- Earth structure and plate tectonics
- Tectonic disaster trends since 1960
- Active volcanoes - eruptive activity and land formation
- Human responses to natural hazards
- Managing tectonic hazards - predictions and forecasting
- Coastal landscape systems and features of littoral zones
- Weathering, erosion and deposition
- Coastal management strategies
- Threats to the coastline and the impact of tourism
- Fieldwork
GCSE
- Plate tectonics theory
- Living alongside hazards in developed countries
- Management of tectonic hazards and their effects
- Monitoring, prediction and protection at plate boundaries
- Geomorphic processes, erosion and deposition
- Distinctive coastal landforms
- Impact of humans on coasts
- Coastline protection schemes
- Fieldwork
Key Stage 3
- Geological timescales and plate tectonics
- Rocks, weathering and soils
- Hydrology and coasts
Primary
- The water cycle
- Volcanoes and earthquakes
