Taormina

Taormina is among the most important tourist destinations in Eastern Sicily. Halfway between Messina and Catania, it is located on a promontory 200m above sea level and overlooks both the Etnean and the Messina sides. The Corso Umberto is the main attraction of the city because it is right along this pedestrian street that most […]

Giardini-Naxos

First Greek colony in Sicily, beautiful seaside town of our days. Here the Greeks landed in 734a.c. establishing the first outpost in Sicily. Subsequently, given the presence of a more strategic and safe place, they moved to found today’s Taormina, leaving Giardini-Naxos as a port area for trade with all Mediterranean civilizations. The fortunes of […]

Castelmola

Castelmola is a small beautiful village set on a rocky ridge above Taormina. Given the shape of the rock on which it rests, similar to a molar or better a grindstone, we like to think that the name derives from a castle on the abbreviated molar Castelmola. Almost as ancient as Taormina, it is thought […]

Savoca

The strategic position of Savoca, like all other cities of ancient origin, stems from the need to defend itself against the invasions that began with the arrival of the barbarians in the medieval period. This is one of the most reliable theories but there are others that are related to the same need to protect […]

Forza d’Agrò

IThe town is part of the Valle d’Agrò area between the Peloritani mountains and the sea. The name of the valley derives from the stream that flows between the mountains. Of ancient origins it was the seat of agricultural villages such as Savoca, Casalvecchio Siculo and Forza d’Agrò itself. The origins of the town are […]

Castiglione di Sicilia

The village, perched high on a rocky buttress (621 m), overlooks the entire valley. Founded in 496 B.C. by the inhabitants of Naxos, put to flight by the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionlsio I, the town was Roman, Arab, Norman, Swabian and then Aragonese angloina; each of these rulers has left traces still partly visible. The […]

Randazzo

Randazzo rises on an ancient lava flow that has stopped to the base of the Etna mount to the border with the Nebrodis. Several historical evidences and finds found in the surrounding areas date back to the first settlement around the sixth century BC In the past, several dominations followed each other and left their […]

Letojanni

Letojanni is a purely coastal town and is located 4km from Taormina which borders along the coast. Its historical development is certainly not lacking in archaeological or historical evidence. Moreover they are not present neither harbors nor old landings that can make to think ud its past of landing for some civilization. The hypothesis of […]

Motta Camastra

Motta Camastra, a town on the rock without defensive systems, walls but with an agricultural soul and ancient traditions. Located 24km from Taormina, it rises above the valley and the Alcantara Gorges. Like Savoca, it also caught the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola who shot a scene from Il Padrino. Today the village has […]

Catania

Current Catania was founded of the Calcidesi of Naxos around 729 b.c. and long the time it have had different dominations that have left their witness in the architecture of the city and the culture of peoples. The city that us see today is that was rebuilt after the big earthquake of 1693 that destroyed […]