Taormina

Taormina is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the east coast of Sicily, and has been a tourist destination since the nineteenth century. Its beaches on the Ionian Sea, including Isola Bella, are reached by an aerial tramway built in 1992 and by road from Messina to the north and Catania to the south. The town sits on a terrace high above the water, and its Greek theatre is positioned so that Etna stands in the gap behind the stage, which is not an accident.