Getting to Villa Romana Del Casale from Agrigento

This will not be easy from either city. I wonder whether there might be a bus tour offered from Siracusa, or perhaps from Palermo?

Although Agrigento is closer to the villa than Siracusa, I think you'll have better/cheaper transportation options from the latter. There's little if any Sunday bus service in Sicily, so don't plan to travel on that day.

I visited the villa while staying in Catania. There is bus service from Catania airport to Piazza Armerina. Rome2Rio.com says that service is run by Etna Trasporti, but I can't find a schedule at the moment; perhaps the service is seasonal.

Rome2Rio says there is Interbus service from Siracusa to the Catania Airport. It runs at least hourly and is scheduled to take just 70 minutes. The schedule is available online.

The route through the airport seems as if it is faster than any other alternative from Siracusa, but I've always found it a bit difficult to get reliable bus schedules online. It would be worth asking at the Siracusa bus station after you reach that city. If there's too much of a language problem there (possible), try the Siracusa tourist office.

There is supposed to be a bus from Piazza Armerina to (or very near) the villa. I am a dawdler and didn't get an early enough bus from Catania to make that connection, so I took a taxi to the villa. I think it cost about 20 euros in 2015; Rome2Rio thinks the trip should cost considerably less than that, but I don't know that Rome2Rio is remotely reliable on taxi fares; heaven knows, it has a lot of bad info about public-transportation fares, travel times and frequencies. The distance from P.A. to the villa is less than 4 miles, but for at least part of the way the road has no shoulder, so the walk wouldn't be safe.

From Agrigento it appears you could take a train (not frequent) to Caltanissetta and then a taxi from there, but that 27-mile taxi trip would be costly. There's bus service from Agrigento up to Enna (connected by bus to Piazza Armerina), but right now those buses run far too late in the day to be of use to you.

Wow, thanks. I have been doing some searches and am having problems with this part of our trip. I appreciate all of the help. Wondering if it wouldn't be better to try to get there from Palermo. Thanks again.

The research was harder than I expected. It's possible we're running up against transportation links that are seasonal, in which case (assuming you're traveling later in the year), more info may be available by, say, April. I tend to be a wing-it traveler; I don't think I tried to research transportation to the villa before I left home, else I'd have run into these same issues. It was just dumb luck that Catania was my first stop in Sicily, and there are buses from its airport (the busiest on the island) to a lot of places, including Piazza Armerina.

I have managed to avoid bus tours most of the time, but there are occasions when it makes sense to cave in. This might be one of them, unless you're willing to spend a night in one of the interior towns (Piazza Armerina, Enna, Caltanissetta, maybe Caltagirone).

I'd definitely recommend a stop at the tourist office in the first large Sicilian city you visit. You won't be the first person to ask about the Villa Romana del Casale.

I appreciate all of your comments...and am kind of glad that it wasn't just me that was having difficulty with this. We are traveling in Sicily from the last week in April through the second week in May. I'm thinking that looking at transportation from Catania might be the best way to go.

Thanks again!

When I visited Sicily in the Spring of 2018, I took 2 buses on my journey from Agrigento to Piazza Armerina, and 2 buses from P. Armerina to Siracusa.

Here’s part of my trip report where you’ll find more details about that journey.

I basically took the SaisTrasporti bus from Agrigento to Caltanissetta (10:00 >> 11:15)
then transferred to the Astra autolinee bus
to continue my journey to Piazza Armerina.
The Giro d’Italia was in progress at the time I was there so instead of taking the 12:15 Astra bus to P.A. I had to wait till the 14:30 bus.

My B&B host, Filippo, picked me up at the bus stop when I arrived to Piazza Armerina.
Giuseppe, Filippo’s son, drove me to the Villa Romana del Casale the following morning (I’d planned to take a bus).

You can certainly visit Piazza Armerina from Siracusa. You’ll need to take the Interbus from Siracusa to Catania Airport ( Aeroporto) then transfer to another Interbus (or ETNA Transporti bus) from the airport to Piazza Armerina.

Please check this recent post for details about the bus situation at the Catania Airport: Bus stations at Catania Airport

I hope this helps!

Enjoy!

Edited to add:
You can see the bus schedule for the Astra Autolinee bus by clicking on, ‘Visualizza Orario’. As you can see the bus schedule is very limited on the weekends.
I’d urge you to contact this company to confirm that this schedule is up to date.

When planning my trip I tried to avoid traveling by bus on the weekends.

I’d be happy to answer any other questions that may come up during your planning.

BTW, I found the Lonely Planet guidebook helpful when planning my trip, especially since Rick Steves hadn’t written a guidebook for Sicily yet.

Edited to correct some spelling errors ;-)