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Church of St. Giovanni Batista in Castelvetrano, S

Church of St. Giovanni Batista in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy

Old town Eriche in Sicily

Old town Eriche in Sicily at summer

Ragusa Ibla viewed from above

Ragusa Ibla against a backdrop of blue sky and clouds in Sicily taken from the roads leading up to Ragusa Superiore. Ragusa Ibla against a backdrop of blue sky and clouds in Sicily taken from the roads leading up to Ragusa Superiore

Mountain valley in Sicily

Mountain valley in Sicily, view from town Castiglione di Sicilia

Siracusa

A shot of skyline of Siracusa in Sicily, Italy.

Cefalu cathedral at night

Famous cathedral of Cefalu in Sicily at night , detail taken from town square. Famous cathedral of Cefalu in Sicily at night , detail taken from town square

Ancient doors of medieval cathedral

Ancient doors of medieval norman cathedral in Cefalu, Sicily. Ancient doors of medieval norman cathedral in Cefalu, Sicily

Old village in Sicily

View of old village uphill in Sicily, Italy before the storm. View of old village uphill in Sicily, Italy before the storm.

Church in Castelvetrano, Sicily

Church in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy

Old cefalu - sicily

Old town Cefalu' in Sicily at summer. Old town Cefalu' in Sicily at summer

Old town in Sicily

Old town in Sicily at summer

The Purgatorio Church in Castelvetrano, Sicily

The Purgatorio Church in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy

Old town Eriche in Sicily

Old town Eriche in Sicily at summer

Old town Eriche in Sicily

Old town Eriche in Sicily at summer

Old baroque fence with stone plant pots in Catania, Sicily, Italy

Old baroque fence with stone plant pots in Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Old Lantern

The old lantern on the blue sky.

Cathedral of Castelvetrano, Sicily Island

Cathedral of Castelvetrano, Sicily Island, Italy

Dense houses in sicilian town

Dense houses in sicilian mountain town Castiglione di Sicilia. Dense houses in sicilian mountain town Castiglione di Sicilia

Old town Eriche in Sicily

Old town Eriche in Sicily at summer

Church of St. Giovanni Batista in Castelvetrano, S

Church of St. Giovanni Batista in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy

Green creeper plant on an old wall in Taormina, Italy

Green creeper plant on an old wall and a decorated iron lamp photographed in backlight in Taormina, Sicily, Italy. Green creeper plant on an old wall and a decorated iron lamp photographed in backlight in Taormina, Sicily, Italy

Landscape of Messina's Canal

A landscape of Canal of Messina, in Sicily. A landscape of Canal of Messina, in Sicily

Old town Cefalu in Sicily

Old town Cefalu in Sicily at summer

Sculpture in the Quattro Canti Four Cornes in Palermo, Italy

View of sculpture in the Quattro Canti Four Cornes in Palermo, Sicily, Southern Italy. View of sculpture in the Quattro Canti Four Cornes in Palermo, Sicily, Southern Italy

Piazza Chiesa San Giusseppe-Taormina-Sicilia-Italy - Creative Commons by gnuckx

www.meimanrensheng.com/ www.livingalifeincolour.com/ www.travelagenda.nl/ www.travelagenda.nl/nieuws/koffietijdkiekjes/koffietijd-k... To see more ... www.flickr.com/photos/gnuckx Taormina Taormina (Sicilian: Taurmina, Greek: Î¤Î±Ï…ÏÎ¿Î¼ÎÎ½Î¹Î¿Î½ - Tauromenion, Latin Tauromenium) is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century. It has popular beaches (accessible via an aerial tramway) on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high salt content. Taormina can be reached via highways (autostrade) from Messina from the north and Catania from the south. Contemporary age In the late 19th century Taormina gained further prominence as the place where Wilhelm von Gloeden worked most of his life as a photographer of predominantly male nudes. Also credited for making Taormina popular was Otto Geleng, best known in his hometown of Berlin for his fine paintings, which he composed and painted in Italy but exhibited in Germany. What distinguishes Geleng, however, is his choice to depict the more southern regions where he captured the spectacular views and light of Sicily. He often painted the area's Greek colonial ruins, including Taormina. Taormina's first important tourist was Johann Wolfgang Goethe who dedicated exalting pages to the city in his book entitled "Journey to Italy," but perhaps it was Gelengâ€™s views that made its beauty talked about throughout Europe and turned the site into a famous tourist center. The artist arrived in Sicily at the age of 20 in search of new subjects for his paintings. On his way through Taormina he was so enamoured by the landscape that he decided to stop for part of the winter. Geleng began to paint everything that Taormina offered: ruins, sea, mountains, none of which were familiar to the rest of Europe. When his paintings were later exhibited in Berlin and Paris, many critics accused Geleng of having an â€˜unbridled imaginationâ€™. At that, Geleng challenged them all to go to Taormina with him, promising that he would pay everyone's expenses if he were not telling the truth. During the early 20th century the town became a colony of expatriate artists, writers, and intellectuals. D. H. Lawrence stayed here at the Fontana Vecchia from 1920 to 1922, and wrote a number of his poems, novels, short stories, and essays, and a travel book, Sea and Sardinia. Charles Webster Leadbeater, the theosophical author, found out that Taormina had the right magnetics fields for Jiddu Krishnamurti to develop his talents, so the young Krishnamurti dwelt here from time to time. HalldÃ³r Laxness, the Icelandic author, worked here on the first modern Icelandic novel, Vefarinn mikli frÃ¡ KasmÃr. By this time Taormina had become "a polite synonym for Sodom" as Harold Acton described it. Later, however, after the Second World War Acton was visiting Taormina with Evelyn Waugh and, coming upon a board advertising â€œYe Olde English Teasâ€ he sighed and commented that Taormina 'was now quite as boring as Bournemouth'. Archaeology The present town of Taormina occupies the ancient site, on a lofty hill which forms the last projecting point of the mountain ridge that extends along the coast from Cape Pelorus to this point. The site of the old town is about 300 m above the sea, while a very steep and almost isolated rock, crowned by a Saracen castle, rises about 150 m higher: this is undoubtedly the site of the ancient Arx or citadel, the inaccessible position of which is repeatedly alluded to by ancient writers. Portions of the ancient walls may be traced at intervals all round the brow of the hill, the whole of the summit of which was evidently occupied by the ancient city. Numerous fragments of ancient buildings are scattered over its whole surface, including extensive reservoirs of water, sepulchres, tesselated pavements, etc., and the remains of a spacious edifice, commonly called a Naumachia, but the real destination of which it is difficult to determine. The Teatro Greco ("Greek theatre"). But by far the most remarkable monument remaining at Taormina is the ancient theatre (the teatro greco, or "Greek theatre"), which is one of the most celebrated ruins in Sicily, on account both of its remarkable preservation and of the surpassing beauty of its situation. It is built for the most part of brick, and is therefore probably of Roman date, though the plan and arrangement are in accordance with those of Greek, rather than Roman, theatres; whence it is supposed that the present structure was rebuilt upon the foundations of an older theatre of the Greek period. With a diameter of 109 metres (after an expansion in the 2nd century), this theatre is the second largest of its kind in Sicily (after that of Syracuse); it is frequently used for operatic and theatrical performances and for concerts. The greater part of the original seats have disappeared, but the wall which surrounded the whole cavea is preserved, and the proscenium with the back wall of the scena and its appendages, of which only traces remain in most ancient theatres, are here preserved in singular integrity, and contribute much to the picturesque effect, as well as to the interest, of the ruin. From the fragments of architectural decorations still extant we learn that it was of the Corinthian order, and richly ornamented. Some portions of a temple are also visible, converted into the church of San Pancrazio, but the edifice is of small size. taormina rainbow messina bougainvillea basil basilico hotel san domenico giardini naxos etna volcano vulcano island isola sicilia sicily italia italy sea sun landscape free europe wallpaper michael micky castielli resolution vacation holiday travel flight creativecommons creative commons zero CC0 cc0 CC cc panoramio flickr googleearth maps geotagged gnu gimp wikimedia. www.meimanrensheng.com/ www.livingalifeincolour.com/ www.travelagenda.nl/ www.travelagenda.nl/nieuws/koffietijdkiekjes/koffietijd-k... To see more ... www.flickr.com/photos/gnuckx Taormina Taormina (Sicilian: Taurmina, Greek: Î¤Î±Ï…ÏÎ¿Î¼ÎÎ½Î¹Î¿Î½ - Tauromenion, Latin Tauromenium) is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century. It has popular beaches (accessible via an aerial tramway) on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high salt content. Taormina can be reached via highways (autostrade) from Messina from the north and Catania from the south. Contemporary age In the late 19th century Taormina gained further prominence as the place where Wilhelm von Gloeden worked most of his life as a photographer of predominantly male nudes. Also credited for making Taormina popular was Otto Geleng, best known in his hometown of Berlin for his fine paintings, which he composed and painted in Italy but exhibited in Germany. What distinguishes Geleng, however, is his choice to depict the more southern regions where he captured the spectacular views and light of Sicily. He often painted the area's Greek colonial ruins, including Taormina. Taormina's first important tourist was Johann Wolfgang Goethe who dedicated exalting pages to the city in his book entitled "Journey to Italy," but perhaps it was Gelengâ€™s views that made its beauty talked about throughout Europe and turned the site into a famous tourist center. The artist arrived in Sicily at the age of 20 in search of new subjects for his paintings. On his way through Taormina he was so enamoured by the landscape that he decided to stop for part of the winter. Geleng began to paint everything that Taormina offered: ruins, sea, mountains, none of which were familiar to the rest of Europe. When his paintings were later exhibited in Berlin and Paris, many critics accused Geleng of having an â€˜unbridled imaginationâ€™. At that, Geleng challenged them all to go to Taormina with him, promising that he would pay everyone's expenses if he were not telling the truth. During the early 20th century the town became a colony of expatriate artists, writers, and intellectuals. D. H. Lawrence stayed here at the Fontana Vecchia from 1920 to 1922, and wrote a number of his poems, novels, short stories, and essays, and a travel book, Sea and Sardinia. Charles Webster Leadbeater, the theosophical author, found out that Taormina had the right magnetics fields for Jiddu Krishnamurti to develop his talents, so the young Krishnamurti dwelt here from time to time. HalldÃ³r Laxness, the Icelandic author, worked here on the first modern Icelandic novel, Vefarinn mikli frÃ¡ KasmÃr. By this time Taormina had become "a polite synonym for Sodom" as Harold Acton described it. Later, however, after the Second World War Acton was visiting Taormina with Evelyn Waugh and, coming upon a board advertising â€œYe Olde English Teasâ€ he sighed and commented that Taormina 'was now quite as boring as Bournemouth'. Archaeology The present town of Taormina occupies the ancient site, on a lofty hill which forms the last projecting point of the mountain ridge that extends along the coast from Cape Pelorus to this point. The site of the old town is about 300 m above the sea, while a very steep and almost isolated rock, crowned by a Saracen castle, rises about 150 m higher: this is undoubtedly the site of the ancient Arx or citadel, the inaccessible position of which is repeatedly alluded to by ancient writers. Portions of the ancient walls may be traced at intervals all round the brow of the hill, the whole of the summit of which was evidently occupied by the ancient city. Numerous fragments of ancient buildings are scattered over its whole surface, including extensive reservoirs of water, sepulchres, tesselated pavements, etc., and the remains of a spacious edifice, commonly called a Naumachia, but the real destination of which it is difficult to determine. The Teatro Greco ("Greek theatre"). But by far the most remarkable monument remaining at Taormina is the ancient theatre (the teatro greco, or "Greek theatre"), which is one of the most celebrated ruins in Sicily, on account both of its remarkable preservation and of the surpassing beauty of its situation. It is built for the most part of brick, and is therefore probably of Roman date, though the plan and arrangement are in accordance with those of Greek, rather than Roman, theatres; whence it is supposed that the present structure was rebuilt upon the foundations of an older theatre of the Greek period. With a diameter of 109 metres (after an expansion in the 2nd century), this theatre is the second largest of its kind in Sicily (after that of Syracuse); it is frequently used for operatic and theatrical performances and for concerts. The greater part of the original seats have disappeared, but the wall which surrounded the whole cavea is preserved, and the proscenium with the back wall of the scena and its appendages, of which only traces remain in most ancient theatres, are here preserved in singular integrity, and contribute much to the picturesque effect, as well as to the interest, of the ruin. From the fragments of architectural decorations still extant we learn that it was of the Corinthian order, and richly ornamented. Some portions of a temple are also visible, converted into the church of San Pancrazio, but the edifice is of small size. taormina rainbow messina bougainvillea basil basilico hotel san domenico giardini naxos etna volcano vulcano island isola sicilia sicily italia italy sea sun landscape free europe wallpaper michael micky castielli resolution vacation holiday travel flight creativecommons creative commons zero CC0 cc0 CC cc panoramio flickr googleearth maps geotagged gnu gimp wikimedia

Sicily

Seaside of Cefalu - old boats and architecture, Sicily, Italy

Old Lantern

The old lantern on the blue sky.

Old town in Sicily

Old town in Sicily at summer

Fortress.

Standing by the walls of fortress. Catania. Sicily. Italy.

Cefalu cathedral and town from above

Cefalu cathedral and town taken from La Rocca , meaning the head like rocky mountain behind the historical town. Cefalu cathedral and town taken from La Rocca , meaning the head like rocky mountain behind the historical town

Sicily

Old town of Cefalu from bird's eye view. Sicily

Narrow street in Syracuse, Sicily

Narrow street in Syracuse, Italy. Narrow street in Syracuse, Italy

Erice streets

Old narrow street in Erice, Sicily. Old narrow street in Erice, Sicily

Teatro Greco in Syracuse, Italy

Ancient Greek theater in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. Ancient Greek theater in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy

Inner Italian urban house yard

Inner Italian urban house yard in Syracuse, Sicily

The Port of Sciacca, in province of Agrigento, Sicily

The Port of Sciacca, in province of Agrigento, Sicily Italy

Floridia, Mather church

Sicilian Baroque Church in the Floridia small town. Mater Church, location Sicily. Sicilian Baroque Church in the Floridia small town. Mater Church, location Sicily.

Palermo. Mondello beach landscape, Sicily

Palermo ciy. Mondello beach Island of Sicily. italy. Palermo ciy. Mondello beach Island of Sicily. italy

Old town in Sicily

Old town in Sicily at summer

Antique Greek Theater and Ionian Sea, Sicily

View on antique Greek Theater and Ionian Sea in Syracuse, Italy. View on antique Greek Theater and Ionian Sea in Syracuse, Italy

Porta Nuova in Palermo

Porta Nuova - historical medieval triumphal gateway in Palermo, Sicily. Porta Nuova - historical medieval triumphal gateway in Palermo, Sicily

View of beautiful architecture of old sicilian town

View of beautiful architecture of old sicilian town

Old town Eriche in Sicily

Old town Eriche in Sicily at summer

Old town in Sicily

Old town in Sicily at summer

Statue at Mesina Port in Sicily

Sicily arrival with the tall statue at the front of the port. Sicily arrival with the tall statue at the front of the port

Old town Eriche in Sicily

Old town Eriche in Sicily at summer

Cefalu at sunset, Sicily, Italy

Beautiful panoramic view of the beach and old town of coastal city Cefalu during evening blue hour, Sicily, Italy. Beautiful panoramic view of the beach and old town of coastal city Cefalu during evening blue hour, Sicily, Italy

Houses in old part of town Syracuse, Italy

Houses in old part of town Syracuse, Sicily. Houses in old part of town Syracuse, Sicily

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