MAGGIORE Car Rental at Palermo Airport

At Palermo Airport, Maggiore's car rental office is located close to the terminal exit. The Maggiore car hire station is open from 8.00 am to 11.59 pm every day of the week, and can be contacted on tel +39 091-591681. Reservations can be made here on this page using the form above.

Rental deals at Maggiore offer small, family-friendly choices like the Citroen C1 or Peugeot 108, the Fiat 500 and Smart Fortwo Coupé. The Maggiore rental contract at Palermo Airport comes with unlimited kilometers, airport surcharge, administration costs, vehicle registration fee, theft protection (excess 1,900 euros) and collision damage waiver (excess 1,000 euros) included in the rate shown online. Optional extras customers can select at Maggiore Car Rental Palermo Airport include GPS navigation systems and portable DVD players.

Maggiore is one of the many companies providing rental cars at Palermo Airport.

The city of Agrigento lies ca. 2 hours and 12 minutes drive to the southwest of Palermo, taking the routes SS121 and SS189 to get there. At around 60,000 residents Agrigento is one of Sicily's largest cities. Perched on a hilltop, Agrigento was partly built on the ruins of a much older settlement, the ancient city of Akragas that lies in the nearby Valley of the Temples. It's a huge archaeological site full of Greek and Roman temples. Finds from this site can be seen at the Museo Archeologico Regionale "Pietro Griffo". The museum is located at Contrada San Nicola 12; single tickets cost 13.50 euros per person; the museum opens at 9.00 am and closes at 7.30 pm, Mondays to Saturdays. On Sundays, the museum opens at 9.00 am and closes at 1.30 pm. The ticket is for combined admission to the Valley of the Temples and the museum, which displays Greek-Roman finds across 18 rooms, each room dealing with a different aspect of the Greek-Romano period.

But Agrigento is equally famous for its stunning Scala dei Turchi, a brilliant white, terraced rockface that overlooks sandy beaches lapped by crystal clear waters of deep blue. This natural phenomena is today more visited than ever because the location of Porto Empedocle is mentioned in Andrea Camilleri's series of detective novels “starring” the fictional hero, Inspector Montalbano.

Literally meaning “The Stairs of the Turks”, the cliff lies between Realmonte and Porto Empedocle, just over 15 km from Agrigento, via the Valley of the Temples. The rock is made of white marl and a soft limestone blend and shaped fantastically by water and winds into ladders and staircases. It is believed the "stairs" got their name because Arab and Turk pirates found shelter in the bay protected by the white cliffs.

In the summer there is a bus leaving Porto Empedocle for the Scala dei Turchi. If you are travelling to Agrigento with Maggiore car rental from Palermo Airport, you can get to Scala dei Turchi by taking the SS640 route, about a 20 minute drive. There is park and display nearby and two of the beaches have excellent facilities, where one can go swimming and have a meal afterwards at a restaurant overlooking the coast.