Taormina...Spring is in the air !

Taormina is a beautiful hill top town a short drive from where we are staying at the Lemon Tree...straight down the mountain and straight up the next !  It is our fourth time visiting this area, so we have many pictures in previous blogs...but...we just can't stop clicking that camera !

Everywhere you look in Taormina, there is beauty...the little church of St. Michael...

St. Michael slaying Satan as a dragon

a hidden little park down an alley...

More scenes in Taormina:

lovely ceramic tiles along the street... advertising the different flavors of granite, or Italian Ices....

The main piazza in Taormina...

 view of the sea from the piazza...

view of Etna from the piazza

puppets are a big tradition here...they are amazingly hand crafted...this one, in the tourist center, was about 3 feet tall...

So many photo ops, so little time !

a small theater in the center of town

the mariner's shrine

really...can it get more beautiful ?

Of course, there is always a sign of "Americanism" in a touristed area...

No...we did NOT eat there !