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TAORMINA 
The legendary summer resort of Taormina, rich in history and elegant
events; 

During the Middle Ages Taormina had the same fate as the rest of Byzantine Sicily in trying to withstand one Moslem attack after another. At the end of the 9th century it was looked upon as the capital of Byzantine Sicily.

After the city was conquered by the Saracens in 902, its people attempted to revolt time and time again in spite of their rivals from nearby Messina who tried to subdue them.

Taormina also took part in the rebellion of the Sicilian Vespers and protected the Aragonese. In 1410 the city became the seat of the Sicilian Parliament. Taormina remained loyal to the Spaniards even though they sold the city more than once.

It was under French occupation in 1675 before being occupied once again by Spain under Phillip V. It was the Bourbons' turn in 1734 although their dominion only lasted until 1861 when Italy was united.

     

Since the 18th century Taormina started its tourist vocation after trips of famous foreigners  like Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who dedicated exalting pages to the city in his book entitled "Journey to Italy" or Otto Geleng, a young red-haired Prussian painter. He began to paint everything that Taormina offered: corners, colours, flowers, trees and landscapes that had  never been seen. When his paintings were later exhibited  in Paris, none of the critics or the visitors could believe that the young Prussian had only copied from the places and not imagined them. At that, Geleng challenged them all to go to Taormina with him, promising that he would pay everyone's expenses if he were not telling the truth. Taormina had become a resort that everyone loved to visit.

             

 

                   

How to reach it 
Motorway A18 exit  Taormina.
 Parking : Lumbi or in front  L'isola bella having used the cableway  can enter in town, or  Excelsior parking.

 

To  visit
Palazzo Corvaia -church S.Chiara
-Teatro Greco -Piazza IX Aprile .
 

Restaurant 
( good food, not cip) 
Ristorante
- Pizzeria 
-Granduca 
-La Griglia
-La Botte 
-Pizzeria Da Antonio
  

 

 

 
  
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