Description
Heading towards to Catania center for the visit of beautiful fish market, piazza Duomo and the main street called via Etnea.
Next to Catania the Coast of the Cyclops il located:the Cyclopean Isles (Italian:Isole Ciclopi), noted for their rows of basaltic columns piled one above another, lie not far from Mount Etna off the eastern coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. There is an ancient tradition that the islands at one time formed part of the mainland of Sicily.
Homer has a curious story about the manner in which they became detached, towards the end of the ninth book of the Odyssey. When Odysseus visited Sicily it was inhabited by the Cyclopes, said to have had only one eye, on the forehead.
Odysseus encounters one of their number, Polyphemus, on his journey home to Ithaca, who kills two of Odysseus’s men. Stuck inside Polyphemus’s cave because he and his men are unable to move the boulder that blocks the entrance, Odysseus supplies Polyphemus with a special wine until he falls asleep, and blinds him by drilling the Cyclops’s own wooden walking stick into his eye. Polyphemus opens the cave boulder and the Greeks escape to their ship; Polyphemus calls to the other Cyclopes for help and Odysseus, from the distance of his ship, begins to taunt and to jeer at him.
Continue to Taormina, also know as the “Pearl of Sicily”. Opportunity to visit the Greek-Roman theater that it is the second largest classical theater in Sicily with a diameter of 109 meters.Free time to have a coffee or an ice cream in the piazza IX Aprile and explore the city with its beautiful and fascinating sight, the Cathedral and Corso Umberto.
Time Excursions: 8h in total
Wine tour Sicily from Siracusa
Around Taormina
Around Catania
