In the 1800s, after the Goethe praised its beauty throughout Europe, mentioning it in his book Italian Journey, Taormina became a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour – the long journey made in continental Europe – by the young European aristocracy of the time to enrich their own culture. Today, it is a tourist capital of Sicily and many travellers enliven its streets throughout the year.

Древние греки любили строить свои здания в красивых живописных местах. Здесь они нашли сочетание Этны и залива Наксос, с прекрасным видом, который при ясном воздухе может достигать побережья Калабрии. Это, безусловно, главный памятник города, не только из-за его внутренней художественной ценности, но и из-за живописного расположения, в котором он расположен. Вид, который открывается оттуда, даже определяется как вид par excellence. Тот, который нельзя пропустить, находясь на Сицилии.

Savoca (Messina), one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, whose name is derived from the plant of the elder (savucu in Sicilian dialect), a shrub that still grows wild in the cracks between houses and which is represented in the medieval coat of arms of the village. This small town set in the rock of a hill of dual tip, experienced the interest of kings, popes and Archimandrite prelates, in a succession of periods of serious crisis and prosperity. The basalt blocks lying on roads leading between separate small houses, freshly restored with Sicilian tiles on the roofs and windows framed in stone, then following streets in the rock here you’ll find extremely fragmented ruins and old cisterns.