Dream escape: summer weekend in Taormina

The sea? We also experienced it in the hotel: four kilometers from the city center, between the earth and the sky, theAtlantis Bay is a five-star hotel facing the Baia delle Sirene with direct private access to the sea. An oasis of beauty. In all 76 rooms between suites, junior suites and superior, deluxe and french rooms but there is also the Atlantide mega-suite, with swimming pool, Jacuzzi, Hammam and two bathrooms, each with a view of the bay where the ancient port once stood. Aperitif at the Dionisio bar and dinner at Ippocampo restaurant. Choose any fish dish: you will not regret it. The sister hotel next door is the Mazzarò Sea Palace – part as the previous one of the family of VRetreats, the new hotel brand of VOIhotels and symbol of the great hotel industry in Taormina. The outdoor terrace of the Gattopardo restaurant it is a location with an extraordinary impact, where you can enjoy classic or international Sicilian cuisine and from where you can watch the sunsets very romantic.

Taormina. Voi Hotels

Alfio Garozzo

Atlantis Bay Taormina – Voi Hotels 16.8.19

Alfio Garozzo

Atlantis Bay Taormina – Voi Hotels 16.8.19

Alfio Garozzo

From the hotels we start to discover this memorable Sicily: the concierge services organize trekking excursions, visits to historic wine cellars as well as itineraries on Mount Etna (which in the days of our stay has visibly snorted). The proverbial Ape Calessino it is the ideal way to enter the narrow streets of Taormina. But there is also the «donkey tour “an excursion on donkeys to discover the timeless magic of Savocathe town where key scenes of the first were shot The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola, for many the best film ever. In his church of Santa Lucia, for example, the famous wedding scene between Michael Corleone and Apollonia was set.

Granite and artist’s places

Followed by a nice lemon granita al Bar Vitellialso set of The Grandfather: it seems to go back to the beginning of the seventies. And if you are not impressionable, take a trip to the catacombs, to the Capuchin convent, where there are the mummified remains of local abbots.

Visit not to be missed a Cuseni House, on the hill of Taormina, the first European hotel for artists in history: Ernest Hemingway (who wrote his first youthful story) and Anatole France, Tennessee Williams and Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalì and Henry Faulkner, Ezra Pound and Greta Garbo stayed there, in no particular order. Here Bertrand Russell conceived the pacifist manifesto against dictatorships and wars and Danilo Dolci postulated his non-violent resistance. Casa Cuseni was built by Robert Hawthorn Kitson at the beginning of the twentieth century. Homosexual, he had fled his native England which had just tried and jailed Oscar Wilde. The villa enjoys one of the most important theosophical births of the Old Continent and an enchanted historic garden, designed by the flower of the artists of the early part of the twentieth century.

    Source: Vanity Fair

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