Car Rental Sicily Taormina

Taormina is a lively Sicilian town on the Ionian sea between Messina and Catania. The city has evolved in the 19th century a tourist centre, next to a picturesque old town has a mild climate and is surrounded by a beautiful landscape, which is necessarily worth exploring. Goethe traveled Taormina - can be read in his "Italian journey"; later, Emperor Wilhelm II. like to spent the winter months in the mild South. Other famous travelers were, for example, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, and D. H. Lawrence.

The landscape is characterized by the sea and 40 kilometres of the Etna, the "good volcano", on which you can enjoy a unique view from the ancient theatre of Taormina. The town itself has been inhabited for thousands of years, he received its today's character but in the middle ages, after the ancient Greek city had been destroyed by the Arabs. For example, the Cathedral of San Nicolò in the city centre dates from this time.

If you would like to explore not only Taormina, but also the island, takes best a rental car. (The old town is traffic-calmed, but two large car parks.) A car is necessary for those travelers who take district just outside, for example, at the camp site on the promontory of CAPO Taormina. Can be reached by Trappitello, a more commercially-oriented district of Taormina, fast on the highway, from which other places of Sicily can be controlled.