If you wish to follow Guy de Maupassant’s advice, you just have to choose this fantastic private walking tour that will guide you through what is commonly known as the Pearl of the Ionian Sea. The atmosphere is unique around the streets, squares and monuments of Taormina. Many vestiges of a rich and complex past are to be found near the majestic Greek-Roman theater.
Taormina was founded by Greeks in 358 BC. The city developed around an Agorà. Its ruins, which are still visible along the street that leads to the theater, were partly buried by the structures of the Roman Forum. In the surroundings, you can admire the ruins of holy and public monuments such as the Aphrodite’s Temple, the Roman Thermal Baths, and the Odeon. Near Corso Umberto I, not too far away from these Greek and Roman buildings, there is the majestic wall of the so-called “Naumachia”, which is a Roman terrace that used to be the scenic backdrop to a big pool.
