TAORMINA

From Catania, 4  - 8  Hours Tour

Taormina is a charming hillside town from which there are breathtaking views of the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea and the majestic volcanic cone of Mount Etna. Bathed in sunshine and steeped in archeological history, Taormina is the perfect destination for a relaxing vacation in Sicily.

This little peninsula consists of a clot of magma iced by waters, stretching out into the Ionian Sea. At this precise geographical point in the world, 2700 years ago, there began the great adventure of a people that, in the spare of a few decades, was to create an unparalleled and envied myth and whose cities, were to rival, in splendour and beauty, the most splendid and beautiful ones in the homeland.

Mt. Etna is known as the volcano with the longest record of volcanic activity with the first historic eruption in fifteen hundred years BC. It has erupted many since then and is almost continuously venting gas and steam.

Mt. Etna has a complex of cones at its summit, which is nearly 3300 meters above sea level.  Mt. Etna is a constructional landform which has been built upwards for millennia; it contrasts subtly but distinctly in this view with the surrounding lower hills which are water-eroded landforms everywhere sculpted into V-shaped valleys by the erosive power of flowing water of streams.