Beach Club
Meridien Beach Lounge
Meridien Beach Lounge is a chic beach club and nightlife spot in Taormina, known for its glossy all-white décor, leather lounges and direct views of the Ionian Sea.
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Beach Club
Caravella restaurant & beach club
Caravella restaurant & beach club offers the rare pleasure of sipping champagne or tasting seasonal fruit beneath your sunshade near Taormina’s Isola Bella. Its attentive service recalls the discreet, zealous helpfulness of an old-fashioned hotel concierge.
Beach Club
Lido La Pigna
Set in the historic Mazzarò Bay, Lido La Pigna is a fully equipped beach club with spacious terraces for swimming and sunbathing. Easily reached from Taormina by cable car, it also offers a relaxed setting in which to enjoy first-quality Sicilian produce.
Food & Drink
Lido Tao Beach Club
Lido Tao Beach Club is one of Taormina’s most exclusive corners, with a private sandy beach overlooking the emerald Ionian Sea. The Sicilian sun appears in spectacular sunrises framed by the vastness of the Mediterranean and the magnificence of Etna.
Beaches
Spiaggia Santa Teresa di Riva
Spiaggia Santa Teresa di Riva is a roughly 3km, mostly free beach on Sicily’s Ionian coast, with multiple Blue Flag awards and a quieter, local character than Taormina. It also makes a convenient base for day trips to Taormina, Giardini Naxos and Etna.
Food & Drink
Ristorante I Tenerumi
Ristorante I Tenerumi brings the wild beauty of the Aeolian Islands to the table, with immersive dinners on a lush lawn beneath the stars. Sicilian ingredients are treated with profound respect for nature and reimagined through cutting-edge international techniques in a sensory expression of the land.
Beaches
Lido Villeggiatura
At Lido Villeggiatura, start the day with sunrise yoga, continue with paddle boarding or snorkelling, then savour an exclusive candlelit dinner or enjoy classic Italian cinema under the stars.
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Nuova Spiaggia Paradiso
Nuova Spiaggia Paradiso is a seaside club in Letojanni, a few kilometres north of Taormina on Sicily’s Ionian coast. Its landscaped grounds, seawater pool built from lava stone and Mediterranean vegetation create a tranquil resort atmosphere, complemented by cabanas, beach service, water-sports equipment rental and Mediterranean cuisine.
Nature
Gran Cratere della Fossa
Gran Cratere della Fossa is a dramatic, 500-metre-wide volcanic crater rising to 386 metres above Vulcano, with active fumaroles, hissing steam vents and vivid yellow sulphur deposits around its ochre-toned interior. The trail from Porto di Levante leads to sweeping views across the Aeolian archipelago, with Mount Etna and Sicily’s northern coast visible on clear days.
History
Teatro Antico di Taormina
Ancient Theatre of Taormina (Teatro antico di Taormina) is a 3rd-century BC Hellenistic theatre located in Sicily, Italy, renowned as the second-largest in the region after Syracuse and celebrated for its horseshoe shape and dramatic views of Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea.