Beautiful island it is a place of great charm, where the ancient traces and vestiges of our ancestors do not offend, but enhance the beauty and grace of nature, in which great archaeological treasures and art treasures are set like gems in a small corner of paradise.
Isola Bella in Taormina is one of these precious gems, named after Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, a German noble, who lived in sicily and in particular in these places about a century ago and which spread the cult around the world, attracting crowds of tourists, and connected to the mainland by a tongue of sand.

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History

Isola Bella was donated to Taormina by King Ferdinand I and later bought and inhabited by the English Florence Trevelyan who held it for a long time. Here the Anglo-Saxon noblewoman married a surgeon from Taormina, prof. Salvatore Cacciola. After the couple's disappearance, the island passed from hand to hand for almost a century, to be finally purchased in 1990 by the Department of Cultural Heritage, and in 1998 once declared a nature reserve, it was managed first by the WWF and then by the Cutgana. , a university center for the protection of natural environments that has been working for years to make this place an enchantment of nature and man.

Visit the Isola Bella museum

For the tourist, a visit to what has become is a must Regional Naturalistic Museum together with Villa Caronia, a beautiful complex located in front of Isola Bella, located on the promontory of Capo Taormina, whose park has been recognized since 1970 as a botanical garden by the De Agostini Geographic Institute due to the many sub tropical plant species on site, in fact, there are also some animals present only in this area, such as the red-breasted lizard and many types of waterfowl.

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The little corner of paradise that is Isola Bella can be reached on foot through the strip of sand that connects it to the mainland, which disappears and reappears according to the flow of the tides. The ticket for the museum allows you to visit the entire island in groups of fifteen people at a time, which can reach twenty units for school groups accompanied by teachers, who can also access the house dating back to the fifties on the island, perfectly inserted in the naturalistic landscape.
Isola Bella is therefore an enchanting open-air museum, which represents one of the most valuable expressions of the union between the hand of man, in this case discreet, wise and delicate, with the splendid constant flowering of the surrounding nature. For those who want to visit Isola Bella and the Regional Naturalistic Museum located in Via Nazionale, 109 - Mazzarò (ME), know that it is possible to do so all year round, by purchasing the entrance ticket directly at the reception, except on Mondays and it can be done from 9:00 to one hour before sunset.

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You can also visit the complex of Villa Caronia opposite, which is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 9:30 to 13:30, and the cost of the entrance ticket is € 4,00, while the reduced € 2,00 and for residents it is only a symbolic € 1,00. You can get to these places from Messina and Catania along the A18 motorway and then exit at Taormina. While by train you can take the Messina-Catania line, and get off at Giardini station Naxos-Taormina. Or when you arrive in Taormina you can comfortably use the cable car that connects the city to Mazzarò, and once you get off, you walk 200 meters to get directly to the entrance of Isola Bella. Or you can reach the island with a walk starting from the historic center of Taormina, go down Via Pirandello and reach the Belvedere from which you can take a path of steps and small downhill streets that lead directly to the entrance to the nature reserve.

Isola Bella, gem of Taormina and Sicily in the heart of the Mediterranean last edit: 2018-06-19T09:00:32+02:00 da simona help

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