Événements à Taormine et alentours : détails
Du 01 Janvier 2008 au 22 Novembre 2008
SPECIAL PLACES TO STAY
OLD, ELEGANT CHARM
Now the southern country counsins (of Italy) are catching up. The press ist toasting Puglia and Sicily as the new "in" places to go...Sicily is known for its simplicity, exuberance and generosity...Late in the 19th century, Signor Schuler's great-grandfather travelled by coach from Germany and built his house here, high above the Ionian Sea. He chose the site well - the views of the Bay of Naxos and Mount Etna are spellbinding - and he built on a grand scale. When he died in 1905, Great Grandma decided to let out some rooms and the villa has been a hotel ever since. Though restored and brought up to date, it still has an old, elegant charm and a cool, quiet atmosphere. Lavish breakfasts are served on an antique buffet with Sicilian lace in the chandeliered breakfast room or out on the lovely terrace. Individual bedrooms vary: older rooms have beatifully tiled floors, antique furniture and stone balconies, more modern ones at the top have new bathrooms and large terraces. All look out to sea or over the garden, which is a delight - vast, sub- tropical and scented with jasmine, and magical when lit up at night. Hidden away behind a stone arch is a delightful, very private little apartment. A path leads through the gardens and out into Taormina's famous. traffic-free Corso Umberto" (Alastair Sawday's SPECIAL PLACES TO STAY - ITALY 2006).
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