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Taormina

Taormina is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the east coast of the island of , Italy. Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century.
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  • Type: Town with 10,500 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “Taorima”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ancient theatre of Taormina and Isola Bella.

Theater building
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an ancient Greek theatre in Taormina, Sicily, built in the third century BC.

Peak
Photo: Michal Osmenda, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small island near Taormina, , 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 , administered by the Italian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Railway station
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is a historic railway station in the Italian municipality of Taormina in . It is owned by the Ferrovie dello Stato, the national rail company of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Giardini Naxos and Naxos.

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is a town in the of . 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.

Neighborhood
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or Naxus was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia, presently situated in modern near Taormina on the east coast of . Much of the site has never been built on and parts have been excavated in recent years.

Village
is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the region , located about 170 kilometres east of and about 40 kilometres southwest of . is situated 7 km north of Taormina.

Taormina

Latitude
37.8512° or 37° 51′ 4″ north
Longitude
15.283° or 15° 16′ 59″ east
Population
10,500
Elevation
204 metres (669 feet)
IATA airport code
TFC
United Nations Location Code
IT TAO
Open location code
8F9QV72M+F6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 67255598
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2522975
Wiki­data ID
Q199952
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Wu Chinese—“Taormina” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ταυρομένιον”
  • Arabic: “تاورمينا”
  • Arabic: “طبرمين”
  • Armenian: “Տաորմինա”
  • Basque: “Taormina”
  • Breton: “Taormina”
  • Bulgarian: “Таормина”
  • Bulgarian: “Тауроменион”
  • Catalan: “Taormina”
  • Catalan: “Tauromenion”
  • Catalan: “Tauromènion”
  • Catalan: “Tauromenium”
  • Cebuano: “Taormina”
  • Chechen: “Таормина”
  • Chinese: “Taormina”
  • Chinese: “塔奥敏纳”
  • Chinese: “陶尔米纳”
  • Chinese: “陶爾米納”
  • Croatian: “Taormina”
  • Czech: “Taormina”
  • Danish: “Taormina”
  • Dutch: “Taormina”
  • Esperanto: “Taormina”
  • Esperanto: “Taormino”
  • Estonian: “Taormina”
  • Finnish: “Taormina”
  • French: “Taormina”
  • French: “Taormine”
  • French: “Tauromenion”
  • French: “Tauroménion”
  • French: “Tauromenium”
  • Georgian: “ტაორმინა”
  • German: “Taormina”
  • German: “Taurmina”
  • German: “Tauromenion”
  • German: “Tauromenium”
  • Greek: “Ταορμίνα”
  • Greek: “Ταυρομένιο”
  • Hebrew: “טאורמינה”
  • Hungarian: “Taormina”
  • Indonesian: “Taormina”
  • Interlingua: “Taormina”
  • Interlingue: “Taormina”
  • Irish: “Taormina”
  • Italian: “Almoezia”
  • Italian: “Taormina”
  • Italian: “Tauromenio”
  • Italian: “Tauromenion”
  • Italian: “Tauromenium”
  • Japanese: “タオルミーナ”
  • Japanese: “タオルミナ”
  • Kirghiz: “Таормина”
  • Korean: “타오르미나”
  • Kurdish: “Taormina”
  • Ladin: “Taormina”
  • Latin: “Tauromenium”
  • Latin: “Taurominium”
  • Lithuanian: “Taormina”
  • Lombard: “Taormina”
  • Luxembourgish: “Taormina”
  • Malay: “Taormina”
  • Malayalam: “Taormina”
  • Malayalam: “ടാഓർമിന”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Taormina”
  • Neapolitan: “Taormina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taormina”
  • Norwegian: “Taormina”
  • Persian: “تائورمینا”
  • Piemontese: “Taormina”
  • Polish: “Taormina”
  • Portuguese: “Taormina”
  • Portuguese: “Tauromenium”
  • Romanian: “Taormina”
  • Russian: “Тавромения”
  • Russian: “Таормина”
  • Serbian: “Taormina”
  • Serbian: “Таормина”
  • Serbian: “Таорминијум”
  • Serbian: “Тауроменијум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Taormina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tauromenij”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tauromenium”
  • Sicilian: “Taormina”
  • Sicilian: “Taummina”
  • Sicilian: “Taurmina”
  • Silesian: “Taormina”
  • Slovak: “Taormina”
  • Slovenian: “Taormina”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تائورمینا”
  • Spanish: “Tabormina”
  • Spanish: “Taormina”
  • Spanish: “Tauromenium”
  • Swedish: “Taormina”
  • Tagalog: “Taormina”
  • Turkish: “Taormina”
  • Ukrainian: “Таорміна”
  • Uzbek: “Taormina”
  • Venetian: “Taormina”
  • Vietnamese: “Taormina”
  • Volapük: “Taormina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taormina”
  • Western Armenian: “Տաորմինա”
  • Wu Chinese: “陶尔米纳”
  • “Taormina”

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