I had a lot felt to speak about this splendid locality defined the Pearl of the Mediterranean, I did not see the hour of being able to finally visit it and, frankly, my imagination could not arrive to what later on my eyes would have seen. The springday encouraged to the excursions and, before reaching Taormina we made pause to Force of Agrò, mails to 420 meters on the sea level, dominated from the cliff of its castle around to which practically all is articulated with its medieval alleys still surpassed from precious bows. Joints to the crossroad of  Cape Taormina  leaving to right the beautifulst cape and the Beautiful Island, we entered the road that, between curves and hairpin curves to tightest elbow, flanked from lussureggianti villas of vegetation that they announced a refined landscape and exotic at the same time, between scenes of incomparable beauty, it lead us to the Medieval Door that opens the access to the city that occupies to amphitheater the terrazzo of the Tauro Mount and it develops in ways parallels to the main course connected between typical they from steep alleys or ladders and characterizes to you from bloomed courtyards. Literally I was fascinated alla.vista of the Beautiful Island that stood out in the below sea, a sea brillantato from the glares of the sun.Completely kidnapped from much beauty I was not myself shrewed that in the meantime the attention of my companions was turned elsewhere: they watched with curiosity the most colorful storees of the ceramics and characteristic majolics and those and artistic ones of the wrought iron. A handicraft, this, precious, flourishing and very sought after that it gives lustro and prestige to the entire Province of Messina. Tantissimi the storees of souvenirs strongly crowds from tourists yearnings to you of... SICILY! As soon as come down from the coach I became endured account that "that place" was so international that you could feel to speak to all the languages about the world. All those aliens made to feel me proud of my earth. We visited the beautifulst communal villa and we put ourselves to dance.

The beautiful one, but, had to still come... with the university professors began to go up more up, in top to the Tauro Mount, and is here that the landscape showed in all its arrogant beauty: Theatre the Greek on the top, all around a garden of colors, in bottom the arch coast of Garden Naxos, up immense, mastodontico, frightening and wonderful Etna, down on left the Beautiful Island and the fabulous beach of Mazzarò and... the blue sea, the blue sky... US!

After the income from Messina Door we find on the right the beautifulst Corvaja Palace of XV the century that encloses the ancient trecentesco nucleus of which it admires the courtyard with scale and adorned window sill of panels to relief. Remarkable the prospect merlato with double lancet windows and registrations and the Catalan gotico portale. To Corvaja Palace White woman of Navarre with its court dwelled, in the 1500's the Palace passed to the Red one of Altavilla; in 1410 it was center of the Sicialian Parliament. Rests of a roman thermal building the "Bouleterion" the more imposing of the Sicily and, along the same director, the Convent of the Cappuccini, therefore, the rests of a roman aqueduct and, above all, the "Naumachia" operates huge and monumental of terrazzamento, of which it admires today along prospect with niches in tile, is monuments all to visit before reaching the Public square of the Lookout.

The varied dominations have left tangible signs, still today clearly visible, in the customs, in the culture and more markedly in the urbanistic fabric of the city.

The Tower of the Clock with the Means Door separates Public square IX april them from the ancient Village with the churches of  Saint Caterina, Saint Giuseppe, Saint Giovanni and the Dome of  XII the century.

From the Lookout of the square the splendid scene can be admired that they give the hill of the theatre, in a profusion of colour and scents, arrives until the slopes of the Etna with the same volcano closing the series of the wonders. To Taormina the suggestions of an only landscape remain strong, in spite of the mass tourism. The label was stuck by normanni: it is the beautiful place of the world.

And the history, urbanism of this unusual place, sees not only the city now rotate to east and now to south in answer to a different function geopolitical that it would have assured urban vitality besides of it. Between Three and Four hundred century, the victory of the Arab-Norman Suburb is exalted in the installation of the Cathedral and in the building-fortitude of the big families that they have feudal dominions along the valley of the Alcantara and that they use that street as commercial road for the products, of breeding and of crop.

Few I approach, in the ' 500, the small nobility and the merchants will have more modest buildings along the central axle of the ex street Valeria; and so they return to join to the Norman city, winning, that that it stays some impoverished Roman city. Modern Taormina is therefore the result of the expansive hegemony of the medieval Suburb on the rests of the installation aboriginal Greek-Roman. Six hundred is for the city the time of the decadence: to the beginnings of the century the Crown ' vende' the hamlets of Taormina to north, the population decreases and slips in low, attracted from the job and from the greatest prosperity of the coast; above all the nobility and the merchants leave for Messina of which Taormina is by now an exhausted dependence. From 1700  leaves again from the Greek theater and from the European antiquary that imposes Taormina between the places of the trip to Sicily: the Theater Greek place - witness of the greatness passed of the city, is also the exceptional balcony on a varied and wild coast which makes severe on the wrong side backdrop the snowy mass of the Etna.