Taormina experiential walking tour audio guides and meditation

Its walls, built between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, tell a story of defense and silence. Originally, it was probably a fortified structure of Swabian times. Observe the battlements in the Catalan-Gothic style : they seem ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

The first defensive structures here date back to Greek times, around the fourth century BC. The Greeks had immediately understood the strategic value of this hill: from up here you could control the ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

This church was founded between the end of the seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries, in a period marked by reconstruction after the great earthquakes that had struck eastern Sicily. Taormina, like many cities on the island, was ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

This church is dedicated to San Pancrazio, considered by tradition the first bishop of the city. It is said that he arrived in Sicily in the first century AD, sent by the Apostle Peter to spread ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

This same track has existed for more than two thousand years. In Roman times it was part of the Via Valeria, a fundamental artery that connected territories, goods, people and destinies. Today he still connects, but in a different way... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

The cathedral was founded in the 13th century, at a time when faith and defence walked together. For this reason his appearance is solid, almost severe. The thick walls, the compact shapes, the façade that resembles a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

As your footsteps follow the shaded avenues, know that this space was born in the late nineteenth century as a private garden. Florence Trevelyan, an English noblewoman with a free and visionary soul, imagined and cured him. Dismissed by the British court... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Meditation “Between Fire and Wave”.

This wall dates back to the Roman Imperial Age, between the first and second centuries AD. It is more than a hundred meters long and is built in red brick, according to a Roman technique called ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

This small covered theatre dates back to Roman imperial times, probably between the first and second centuries AD. It was a space for a few: music, poetry, words meant to be ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Its origins date back to Arab times, around the year 1000, when Taormina was part of a refined defensive and administrative system. The square tower you see is the most ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

This square bears the name of April 9, 1860, a date born of an error and transformed into a symbol. On that day Taormina believed Garibaldi had entered Palermo. It wasn't true, but the news ignited a... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

This gate was built in 1440, when Taormina was a fortified city and every access had a vital value. From this gap they came - Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

This gate was rebuilt in 1808 and was originally called Porta Ferdinandea, dedicated to Ferdinand I of Bourbon. But the place where you are is much older : already in medieval times here existed ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

This theater was born in the third century BC, when the Greeks chose this precise point of the hill not only for its beauty, but for its energy. Nothing was random. The Greeks believed that places had ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!