Your guide will meet you at your hotel for awalking tour of Taormina, undoubtedly the most chic town on the Ionian coast.It has been attracting visitors since the days of the Grand Tour, the mostfamous being Goethe, who described it as ‘A strip of paradise on earth’. D.H.Lawrence lived here for three years, at the top of the valley behind the Greektheatre, so named because the original theatre was indeed built by the Greeks, thoughwhat you will see dates mainly from Roman times. It is from here that you willget some stunning views of Taormina’s two bays and across to Calabria on themainland, with Mount Etna as a backdrop in the other direction. There is onemain pedestrianised street with some very impressive flower-decked mansions andsome seriously smart shops on the ground floors.
