The height of Taormina is sufficient to keep it from fever, which is very prevalent at Giardini below.
It is precise enough to say that Taormina began eighty years before the Trojan War.
They sat together in the vast ruined theatre above magic Taormina, and gazed on the sunlit sea and Etna's snowy crest.
But we had hardly begun the ascent to Taormina before my wheel was in a state of collapse.
A full view of the coast line is obtained from the Capo di Taormina on the north, to a point below Riposto on the south.