Voyages & Aventures: Vacances de février en Sicile !

Pour éviter les "winter blues", quoi de mieux que de retrouver le soleil en Sicile ?

Avec Véronique et Blaise, nous allons découvrir une petite partie de l'est de l'île.

Taormina is a small city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Messina on the east coast of the island of Sicily. Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century. Its beaches, the most famous being 'Isola Bella' are accessible via an aerial tramway built in 1992 on the Ionian sea and via highways from Messina in the north and Catania in the south.
Early history: The area around Taormina was inhabited by the Siculi even before the Greeks arrived on the Sicilian coast in 734 BC to found a town called Naxos.

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The Ancient theatre of Taormina 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 (358 ft) (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.

Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily. It lies above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. It is the tallest active volcano in Europe,currently 3,329 m (10,922 ft) high. It is the highest peak in Italy south of the Alps.

Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and is in an almost constant state of activity. In June 2013, it was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.