TAORMINA & SICILY

Taormina the most beautiful town in Sicily, an old hilltop town full of history and culture and by the sea. Taormina is famous for its beauty, its incredible heritage in history, archaeology and architecture, as well as for its reputation in welcoming travellers. Taormina is perfectly situated to offer students easy access to the beautiful and historically important treasures of Sicily.

Watch our video to know how beautiful Taormina is.

Taormina is like a treasure chest of history: walking along its main street, Corso Umberto, and the maze of narrow staircased streets and small beautiful squares, you find Theatres and Gymnasium from the Greek Age, Odeon and Baths from the Roman Age, beautiful buildings in which the Arab and the Norman cultures melt together in a memorable sense of beauty, traces of the Byzantine domination and beautiful villas which belonged to the European aristocracy in the XVIII and XIX centuries, all in the context of a small town on top of the hill of Monte Tauro, overlooking the coastline of the Ionian Sea. Take a virtual tour of Taormina. Here is also a map of Taormina.

Access to the beaches is very easy. From the center of Taormina, in 2 minutes, a cable-car connects Taormina to the beaches. Isola Bella, the Bay of Mazzarrò, the Bay of Giardini Naxos, the Beach of Spisone, those are among the most famous beaches in Italy. Click in here for some photos of the beaches of Taormina

Taormina plays a fundamental role as one of the most important archaeological locations in Italy. In fact, the Greeks, fathers of Italian and European culture, settled their first colony in Italy exactly here in the Bay of Naxos, in 735 BC.. Taormina is home to one of the most famous Greek Theatres in the world. Here, in summertime the main events of the International Film, Music, Dance and Theatre Festival of Taormina Arte take place.

Along with the different dominations that conquered Sicily, many important monuments and buildings were built in Taormina by the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Swebians, the Normans, the Spanish, the French, and the entire XIX European aristocracy have all left their "footprints", in Taormina in the form of beautiful buildings, monuments, churches, villas, parks and castles.

Watch our video or take a virtual tour of Taormina or have a look at our photo album, and learn more about the history, the monuments and the views of our town.

For walkers, the surroundings of Taormina are also a beautiful paradise. There are several trails leading down to the sea and up to the picturesque village of Castelmola, and to the top of the highest mountain in the area, Monte Venere, where one of the three Greek temples of Venus is rumoured to have existed.

Taormina offers many opportunities in the way of hotels, restaurants, bars, discos, entertainment and sports.

With the aim of offering to you a wider cultural experience during your stay in Taormina and in Sicily, our Centre for Italian Studies offers a variety of "Italian plus..." programs, including:

· Study Italian plus cooking courses: "Food & Wine of Sicily"
· Study Italian plus pottery courses: "The Sicilian ceramics"
· Study Italian plus hiking & trekking in Sicily
· Study Italian plus diving in Sicily
· Study Italian plus moutain biking in Sicily
· Study Italian plus golf in Sicily

or Italian culture courses:

· Italian literature courses: "The Sicilian writersin the Italian literature"
· Italian history courses: "The History of Sicily"
· Art history courses: "Art History in Sicily"

Taormina can be the base for a more intensive tour of Sicily. Follow this link to know more about Sicily. We would love to welcome you soon and help you have an unforgettable personal, cultural and educational experience with us in Taormina, in Sicily!

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Study & learn Italian in Italy with BABILONIA - Centre for Italian Studies - Taormina, Sicily