Photo: a view down the centuries

Place: Hotel Isabella, Taormina, Regione Autonoma Siciliana, Italy

Stephanie Fysh

By Stephanie Fysh
Uploaded on 8 March 2008
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a view down the centuries

From the balcony of my room in the Hotel Isabella on Taormina's Corso Umberto, where you can buy all the Versace and Dolce & Gabanna that you need to bring home, I could have looked right, to where the sun had risen over the Strait of Messina. Instead I looked left -- first to see where the morning light fell, and then across a few centuries of apartments and churches to the Greco-Roman theater, a reminder of just how new a newcomer to Sicily I was.

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  • 30 March 2008, Johanna Stigter said:

    Taormina is one of those amazing places one has to visit. I stayed in a room where I could see the Volcano Etna from my bed, snow peaked by day and glowing by night. I love the place but the food is much better in Catania or in smaller villages. Food in Taormina tends to be commercial due to the amount of tourists visiting. And yes, the shopping is good in all of Sicily and cheaper than the North.

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