{"id":8337,"date":"2021-02-26T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T10:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.villavalverde.it\/taormina\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:59:37","slug":"taormina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villavalverde.it\/en\/taormina\/","title":{"rendered":"Taormina"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8337\" class=\"elementor elementor-8337\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-eeb33c1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"eeb33c1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-43183c2\" data-id=\"43183c2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6692b62 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6692b62\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p>Known as \u201c<strong>The Pearl of the Ionian Sea<\/strong>\u201d, which it overlooks, Taormina has a thousand-year history: set in a unique landscape, the city boasts a <strong>wealth of culture and architecture<\/strong>, where since its foundation as a <strong>Greek colony, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Normans, up to the Spaniards in the 16th century have left their cultural mark over the centuries.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-96803aa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"96803aa\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6303b32\" data-id=\"6303b32\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92c66ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"92c66ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p><strong>The particular beauty of Taormina attracted the attention of such great aesthetes and travelers of the 18th and 19th centuries<\/strong> as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Otto Friedrich von Geleng and Wilhelm von Gloeden, who spread the fame of its artistic value throughout Europe. 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