These are a series of video taken from tourists who have visited the beautifulst places of Sicily like Taormina, Catania, the ionic sea, the Etna and a other… You make attention to the audio of the video.

Catania, Taormina and the Etna

This is a video that allows you to see all the beauties and the characteristics of Catania, Taormina and the Etna. The tourist has realized this video in 2005 and he shows us all the places that he has visited: The main ways of Taormina, the Roman theatre, some views during the christmas period, the Beautiful island to the feet of Taormina and the way to go to Castelmola… a small village situated over Taormina. About Catania you can see its main monuments, the buildings in baroque style. About the Etna he shows you when the mountain full of snow, the persons who ski and use the ski station and the eruptive scenes of 2001 eruption

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One panoramic view on Catania

In the center of Catania, in Piazza Stesicoro, exactly in the half of via Etnea, it's possible to visit the rests of an ancient roman amphitheater. The amphitheater accommodated approximately 24.000 persons, tasks that to the roman age, Catania counted approximately approximately 70.000 inhabitants. This made of Catania one of the main cities of the Roman empire. The amphitheater initially had 4 plans, subsequently destroyed from the earthquake of 1669, from the eruption of the Etna in 1693. The Spanish subsequently used some rests of the amphitheater to construct the palaces and monuments in the vicinities today still present.

Aerial view of Catania

In this video is possible to see an aerial view of Catania during a flight. You can see the playa of Catania, the preferred sable beach by the citizen of Catania, the port of Catania, Acitrezza and the Faraglioni, the longbeach Ognina in the east part of the city in directed contact with the reef.

Catania in detail

In this complete video is possible to have a panoramic of the streets of the City and all its attractions. The famous Elephant (U liotru) symbol of the City in the center of the public square of the Dome. The roman theatre, the Bellini theather, entitled to the celebre Catanese musician; the public square of the Dome; the roman amphitheater in Stesicoro public square; The villa Bellini, the biggest area of the city; The faraglioni of Acitrezza and at last the Etna Volcano.

The ionic coast

In this video is possible to see the jonic coast near Riposto, in the north side of Acireale. The video introduces us a beach of pebbles the still desert with in background the great “Muntagna” Etna

Special Taormina

Here one aerial view of Taormina

Here two video that show us the sight of the shoreline under Taormina; The Isola Bella, a little island connected to the coast from one thin sand strip; The persons who make the typical sightseeing tour in boat, the typical public square of Taormina, restaurants on the road and the Greco-roman theatre. Going back probably to III the century a.C., the greek-roman theatre of Taormina is sure the largest in Sicily, after that one of Syracuse. It is supposed that were the Tauromeniti Greeks that devised and constructed the theatre, the Roman later on, widened it.

With a group of foreign tourists we go around Taormina to the discovery its historical center, the Greek theatre, the main public square, the narrow lanes of the center and the "Isola Bella" island.

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