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Day 9 - Taormina City tour This morning, enjoy an orientation walk around your hotel's neighborhood with your Program Director. This afternoon, you'll embark upon a walking tour of Taormina, Sicily's most famous resort. Dating from the third and fourth centuries BC, Taormina is perched dramatically high on a rocky promontory overlooking the Ionian Sea. It's a charming medieval town with typical cobblestone streets leading into spacious squares graced by lovely 15th-century palazzi. Your tour includes a visit to the extraordinary classical Greco-Roman theater. This is Taormina's most-visited site, offering a view of rare beauty: Mount Etna and the seacoast. In the third century BC, the Greeks carved this theater on the slopes of Mount Tauro out of rock, and even today, the superb acoustics of the theater allow listeners in the last rows to hear a whisper on stage. |
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