Taormina Leaving teh easpecialties. Acrosst coast behind, we stop for lunch in Enna. This is the highest, strategically located city of Sicily. From the tower of the Lombards castle we admire one of the the wider views of the island. In late afternoon, while already seeing the Etna Volcano on our left, we land in Taormina our home for four nights.
Today is a lazy one.
Discovered by Goethe, D.H. Lawrence, Maupassant, Kaiser Willelm and celebrated by the Grand Tour, is a must of the top-notch international tourism. You can take a really relaxing day in town, walking the little streets, stepping into fancy shops, taste the painted fruit pastry, or go for wine tasting. You can sit and enjoy the view, in a bar or from the Greek-Roman theatre. Or, if you are not so tired, you can even walk to the higher town of Castelmola. Syracuse Syracuse, founded on the Ortygia island in 733 BC by Greek settlers, was for over five centuries the main city in Sicily, and perhaps in the Mediterranean.