Tour taormina cooking class
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This tour will start by picking you up from your hotel This morning transfer to a local Restaurant in Taormina to meet the Chef.
A walk takes us to the market where we'll purchase fresh fruit, vegetables and all the ingredients for the cooking course.
Then back to the restaurant to start cooking.
At the end of the cooking course, we will enjoy our creations with the perfect compliment—a beautifully Sicilian wine.
Dessert follows accompanied by a typical local Dessert.
Taormina
Taormina, with its corners, its atmospheres and its colours, has always bewitched anyone who comes to visit it.
The charm of “the pearl of the Ionian sea” has remained unchanged through times.
The birth of the city was due to the settlement of some Greek sailors coming from the near Naxos. With this first domination,
Tauromenion (this is its first name) took the typical form of the Greek colonies, from the buildings of Agorŕ and Bouleterion,
necessary centre of the city council.
The construction of what is rightly regarded as the civic symbol, the famous Ancient Theatre, goes back to this period.
It was built in the 3rd century Before Christ, using the morphology of the hill; it is surrounded by a breathtaking view, including two geographical extremes:
the Bay of Schisň and volcano Etna.
After Greek people, the Romans were spellbound by this patch of heaven; their main undertaking was the renovation of countless inherited pieces of
architectural work. For instance, the Romans changed the famous Theatre into an Amphitheatre.
Taormina also knew times of decadence, such as the unfortunate choice of forming an alliance with Sesto Pompeo against Octavian.
When the latter won, Taormina was downgraded to a simple colony. On the other hand, Byzantine domination brought about a prosperous period.
After the fall of Constantinople and the consequent decline of Syracuse, Taormina became the new capital of eastern Sicily.
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