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I am far from the first traveler to discover this wonderfully inexpensive old fashioned Taormina hotel of 13 large, simple rooms (and a perfect position between the bus stop and the town gates, across from the cable car down to the beach).
On one of the communal living rooms walls, cluttered with age-patinaed oil paintings and frilly gilded mirrors, hangs the framed pages from a travel article—complete with etchings—describing the correspondent's lovely stay here in 1887. (No that it hasn't modernized—at least a bit; there is free WiFi.)
Near this, on a settee he inherited from his grandfather, is where you're apt to find Vincenzo Sciglio, his La Repubblica paper spread out on a coffee table of inlaid marble.
On the wall hang sepia-toned photographs of his ancestors right back to great-grandpa Principe di Gilgio, who came to Taormina from Siracusa in the 1850s to build this villa.
Vincenzo's grandfather added the battlemented roof line and dusty rose façade accented in white stone from Siracusa and black volcanic rock from nearby Mt. Etna. He also began taking in paying guests—a German who stayed for eight years, an American who stayed for 25.
Vincenzo's wife, Maria, is usually tending to the hotel's lush gardens of hibiscus, bougainvillea, night-blooming jasmine, and citrus, fig, and cypress trees. (She grew up playing in the gardens her grandfather tended at the deluxe Hotel San Domenico Palace.) The gardens terrace up the steep hill behind Taormina's ancient theater to a little Neoclassical temple with sweeping views up the coast.
Request one of the eight rooms with tiny balconies overlooking the gardens to the sparkling sea far below.
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Via Pirandello 33, Taormina, Sicilia
tel. +39-0942-23-797
www.hotelvillanettuno.it
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Hotel Villa Nettuno ★
Via Pirandello 33, Taormina, Sicilia
tel. +39-0942-23-797
www.hotelvillanettuno.it
€€
Find hotels in Taormina
www.booking.com
www.airbnb.com
www.bedandbreakfast.com
www.hostelworld.com
Reid's Recommended hotels in Taormina
Hotel Villa Gaia [€€]
Hotel Villa Belvedere [€€€]
Hotel Villa Schuler [€€€]
Hotel Villa Fiorita [€€]
» More hotels in Taormina (from €39)
» B&Bs in Taormina (from €35)
» Apartments in Taormina (from €75)
» Agriturismi (farm houses) near Taormina (from €36)
Taormina tourist info:
Palazzo Corvaja, Largo S. Caterina/Corso Umberto
tel. +39-0942-628-322 or +39-0942-23-243
www.comune.taormina.me.it
www.taohotels.com
www.taorminaetna.it
www.taormina.it
Public transit (parking, funivia, bus):
www.taorminaservizipubblici.it
Trains: www.trenitalia.com