"Casa d'A..Mare" is in front of the widest beach of the Giardini Naxos bay, just 100 meters from the archaeological area, the museums and the city center, 1 km from the motorway junction, close to the marina. few steps from the city center, where there are numerous hotels, shops, restaurants and night clubs and just 5 minutes walk from the bus terminal to the airport of Catania. The tourist bus stop for Taormina is at 30 meters whose departures are every 5 10 minutes.
It is an ideal base for day trips to Taormina, Etna, Syracuse, Catania, Ragusa, Noto, Piazza Armerina, Aidone and Gole dell'Alcantara watherfalls.
Be awere that Sicily is changing: active, full of energy, extrovert, capable of creating endless resources and new skills. But don’t forget, at the same time, to value the most enduring aspects of Sicily: that sky, that sea, miraculously resistant to the insults of chemicals; blazing volcanoes, gently rolling hills, the valleys where rivers with names as sweets as honey flow; legends that still live on people lips in an atmosphere of mythology; small shop where incomparable craftsmen repeat the ancient actions of hard labour; the windows with blossoming terracotta pots, behind which a brunette smiles; the churches of blond stone, as delicate as fleshy creatures; the squares where every day billboards anticipate a new episode of the Opera dei Pupi, which shows life that never changes; me, the millions of small dark men which a welcoming heart, even if bristling with plausible insincerity and fiery as molten lava…
Get on board this triangular ark of stone that floats on perpetual wawes. It escaped the many tempests; it will outlive the missiles… And put a Greek Dictionary in your pocket: you might meet, emerging from waters and eager to exchange a word or two, Aphrodite Anadimenes …
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