Isola Bella
Isola Bella is a small island near Taormina, Sicily, southern Italy. Also known as the Pearl of the Ionian Sea, it is located within a small bay on the Ionian Sea; it was a private property, for a time owned by Florence Trevelyan, until 1990, when it was bought by the Region of Sicily, being turned into a nature reserve, administered by the Italian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature.Photo: Michal Osmenda, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ancient theatre of Taormina and Taormina–Giardini railway station.
Ancient theatre of Taormina
Theater building
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The ancient theatre of Taormina is an ancient Greek theatre in Taormina, Sicily, built in the third century BC.
Taormina–Giardini railway station
Railway station
Photo: VincentLR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Taormina–Giardini railway station is a historic railway station in the Italian municipality of Taormina in Sicily. It is owned by the Ferrovie dello Stato, the national rail company of Italy.
Palazzo Corvaja
Museum
Palazzo Corvaja is a medieval palace in Taormina, Sicily, Italy. It was principally built at the end of the 14th century and is named after one of the oldest and most prominent families of Taormina, which owned it from 1538 to 1945.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taormina and Giardini Naxos.
Taormina
Photo: Pjt56, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Taormina is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy. Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century.
Giardini Naxos
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Giardini Naxos is a town in the Messina Province of Sicily. It lies on the east coast midway between Messina to the north and Catania to the south. Just above it is the mountain town of Taormina.
Naxos
Neighborhood
Photo: Alun Salt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Naxos or Naxus was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia, presently situated in modern Giardini Naxos near Taormina on the east coast of Sicily. Much of the site has never been built on and parts have been excavated in recent years.
Isola Bella
Latitude
37.8502° or 37° 51′ 1″ northLongitude
15.3007° or 15° 18′ 3″ eastOpen location code
8F9QV822+37OpenStreetMap ID
node 549766871OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q642924
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Isola Bella” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Isola Bella (pulo sa Italya, Sicilia)”
- Cebuano: “Isola Bella”
- Chinese: “美丽岛 (陶尔米纳)”
- Chinese: “美丽岛”
- Dutch: “Isola Bella”
- French: “île Belle”
- French: “Île Belle”
- German: “Isola Bella”
- Hungarian: “Isola Bella”
- Italian: “Isola Bella”
- Japanese: “ベッラ島”
- Russian: “Изола-Белла”
- Spanish: “Isla Bella”
- Turkish: “Bella Adası (II)”
- Turkish: “Isola Bella”
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Notable Places Nearby
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