Taormina is a well developed tourism resort, worldwide renowned and endowed with a large number of beaches, hotels, restaurants and entertainment facilities. It has a nice climate and a rich vegetation, with several other tourism sites around.

Taormina offers the visitor plenty of beaches, bathing sites and fishing areas. Some bathing spots are great, like the Mazzarò Bay, stretching between Capo Sant’Andrea and the Isola Bella with some beautiful marine grottos.

The Municipal Garden, dedicated to the Duke Colonna of Cesarò is a green area offering a panoramic view of the coast and of the volcano, and rich vegetation mainly composed of tropical and mediterranean plants.

Short trips away from Taormina are several nice sites and resorts. Letoianni is a tourism developed resort, offering natural beauty and great seafood cuisine. Castelmola has a nice castle and a lake, the Etna volcano along with Giardini Naxos and the area of the Alcantara river, whose canyons wereformed from eruptions of a small volcano north of Etna are other great sites as well.

Many artists including painters and writers have passed through Taormina only to discover that its beauty is irresistible. Their interpretations and experiences were expressed in their art forms. Taormina is famous as an international tourist destination thanks to Otto Geleng, a young red-headed Prussian painter. While on his journey through Taormina he became enchanted by the scenery and natural beauty of Taormina. Geleng stayed in Taormina for brief time, while there he painted much of what the town had to offer. Through his paintings, the beauty of Taormina was talked about all over Europe.

At the end of the nineteenth century, it became a fad for nobles and well-off English men to own property in Taormina. Travelers came from all around the world including the North Americans, Austro-Hungarians, Baltic people, Belgians, Swiss, Dutch, and Germans started to purchase more and more villas. Even today Taormina is a wonderful Sicilian resort town that attracts visitors from all around who are looking to soak up the remarkable beauty that it has to offer.