The Greek theater with Etna smoking behind it: Sicily's most beautiful stage, on and off the screen.
Explore → Get Early AccessSicily's balcony — a Greek theater framing Etna and the sea in one impossible proscenium, a corso of palazzi and granita cafés, and cable-car beaches below. It has hosted celebrity summers for 150 years and wears the attention well.
Founded by Greek refugees from Naxos below, Taormina became the aristocratic Grand Tour's Sicilian finale — Goethe raved, Wilde lingered, and the ancient theater was rebuilt by Romans and never really closed.
The Teatro Antico still runs a full summer season — opera and film festivals with Etna smoking behind the stage — and the columns' 'ruined' gaps were engineered by the view: the Greeks aimed the whole architecture at the volcano. White Lotus season two made the town's hotels a pilgrimage.
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