Taormina
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.Photo: John Menard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Pjt56, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 10,500 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Neighbors: Giardini Naxos
Notable Places in the Area
Ancient theatre of Taormina
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.
Isola Bella
Photo: Michal Osmenda, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Isola Bella is a small island near Taormina, Sicily, southern Italy.
Localities in the Area
Giardini Naxos
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Giardini Naxos is a town in the Messina Province of Sicily.
Naxos
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. Naxos is situated 3½ km southwest of Taormina.
Mongiuffi Melia
Mongiuffi Melia is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 kilometres east of Palermo and about 40 kilometres southwest of Messina. Mongiuffi Melia is situated 7 km north of Taormina.Taormina
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Messina, Sicily, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.8518° or 37° 51' 7" northLongitude
15.2857° or 15° 17' 8" eastPopulation
10,500Elevation
204 metres (669 feet)IATA airport code
TFCUnited Nations Location Code
IT TAOOpen Location Code
8F9QV72P+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 67255598OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2522975Wikidata ID
Q199952Taormina Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Ταυρομένιον
- Arabic: Taormina
- Arabic: تاورمينا
- Arabic: طبرمين
- Armenian: Տաորմինա
- Basque: Taormina
- Breton: Taormina
- Bulgarian: Таормина
- Bulgarian: Тауроменион
- Catalan: Taormina
- Catalan: Tauromenion
- Catalan: Tauromenium
- Catalan: Tauromènion
- 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: Tauromenium
- French: Tauroménion
- 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: タオルミナ
- Japanese: タオルミーナ
- 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: Taormina
- Norwegian Bokmål: 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
- Slovak: Taormina
- Slovenian: Taormina
- South Azerbaijani: تائورمینا
- 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
- Taorima
Other Places Named Taormina
In the Area
- MazzaròHamlet
- I FaraglioniLocality
- TrabesiLocality
- SpisoneHamlet
- Punta di NettunoLocality
- Baia delle SireneLocality
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