04-09-2015
Taormina, be it from below or from above, is always beautiful. Of course the view towards the sea has few comparisons. It’s one of those things that make a holiday unique
The good and bad thing about Italy is that no matter how hard we work at creating problems that give us a bad image around the world, we have places that are so beautiful it is almost impossible to ruin them completely. Of course, it’s upsetting but when arriving in Taormina it is best to focus on what is nice and wish that the local administration will soon understand an amusement arcade next to Duomo is not a great way to present oneself, just like some shops in the main pedestrian street, which are just as banal as every shop in every other tourist destination on the planet. They do not add anything, in fact they take away something. The history of Taormina is centennial, it is the last town in the province of Messina on the way to Catania and in fact it looks up to the latter. You go from zero metres above the Ionian Sea to 206 metres on the rock, with Etna on one side and the coast of Calabria on the horizon in front of you. The dilemma, when deciding to spend a relaxing period there, is whether to choose a hotel below, convenient when reaching beaches and bays, or one above, where the breath-taking view is guaranteed and it’s nice to have a walk in town at night. As for me, in order to avoid ending up like the donkey from Buridano, I chose option A (as in above) in June and option B (as in below) in July, yet with a few happy trips uphill. Why should one deny oneself something?
Lunch at Villa Sant'Andrea in Taormina can start with a very, very good prawn
Sea umbrellas, beach and sea at Cala di Mazzarò, on which Villa Sant'Andrea overlooks
1. To be continued
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