SIXT Car Rental at Catania Airport

Sixt Car Rental Catania Airport offers passengers a wide selection of affordable vehicles. At Catania Airport, the service station is open from 8.00 am to 11.30 pm every day. The Sixt team can be contacted by phone on +39 02 94 75 7979 to arrange for pick-up or drop-off of vehicles.

If you plan on renting a car at the airport in high season it is recommended to compare car rental prices and availability at Catania Airport.

Sortino lies some 52 km distance from Catania Airport, about 44 minutes with Sixt car rental via the E45 motorway. If you want to take in Lentini and Augusta on the way, use the SS114 and SS124 routes from the airport.

Sortino is another fine example of the Sicilian Baroque style. Located on the Anapo River, the town is mostly known for being the entry to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Necropolis of Pantalica, which lies between the towns of Sortino and Ferla. The site contains hundreds of man-made caves and tombs, as the area has seen occupation for thousands of years. The town of Sortino has been inhabited at least since the Bronze Age, so of huge interest to archaeologists around the world.

Old, but not as old as that is the Church of the Monastery of Montevergini, which dates only to the 18th century, but is an impressive building in Sortini and one not to be missed, if you are interested in church architecture. Families with children will perhaps be more interested in the Museum of Puppet Opera, which displays a large number of puppets used in traditional puppetry in the province of Syracuse for centuries.

Displayed in three spacious rooms, where the puppets "re-enact" various scenes from traditional theater plays that were accompanied by music in the past, the puppets vary considerably in size and weight, but all are operated with 2 rods, rather than with strings. The puppets can reach up to 16 kg in weight, as some of them wear rich clothing and knights' armour.

The town of Augusta is mostly known for its Swabian Castle, which dates back to the Hohenstaufen kings who once ruled over Sicily, and the defensive structures that still protect the harbour, Fort Avalos, Fort Garcia and Fort Vittoria.

The Sixt fleet at Catania Airport includes the Citroen C1, the Fiat 500 and Fiat Tipo, the VW Polo, Alfa Romeo Giulietta and BMW Series 1. Car rental contracts from Sixt come with 100 free kilometers as part of the deal.