Usually the Ancient Theatre is open from 9.00am till one hour before sunset.
Click HERE to check the opening hours, according to the period of the year.
Reduced ticket: € 5.00 (aged 18-25, FAI members)
Free ticket: under 18, People with disabilities and helper , teachers and many other (see the above link)
NIGHT OPENING OF THE ANCIENT THEATRE (from 9.00am till 11.00pm) ON THE FOLLOWING DATES:
June 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13
July 3, 4, 5
August 12, 13, 14, 15, 29
FREE ENTRANCE TO THE ANCIENT THEATRE ON THE FOLLOWING DATES:
first Sunday of every month
June 2 (Festa della Repubblica, National Holiday)
November 4 (Festa delle Forze Armate, National Holiday)
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From 11.00am to 2.00pm in “IX Aprile” square (the Belvedere) a Tarantella show with the Sicilian folk dance group Ciauru di Sicilia. Special Guest: Suonatori di Taormina.
From 5.00 to 8.00pm parade of typical Sicilian horse carts along the main street Cors Umberto, thank to the association Spiraglio.
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Eruzione dell’Etna vista dal Santuario della Madonna della Rocca di Taormina (16 febbraio 2021). Foto di Saro Laganà. Source: https://www.facebook.com/saro.lagana
PHOTO EXHIBITION
Taormina, I love you
by Saro Laganà
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, from April 27th 2023
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Teatro Nazarena, via Fontana Vecchia n°3, Taormina @ 9.15pm
Entrance must take place by 8.45pm
in April > every Wednesday and Friday from May to October > every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in June and July > 5th edition of the Taormina International Classical Music Festival >> every Saturday
Since 2014 every year about 150 shows are performed to an international audience, which gets larger year after year.
Italian Opera Taormina is a unique experience among the melodies of Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, Rossini and many other authors performed by great professionals of the Italian and International Opera, with different arias and duets accompanied by the piano. The guests become part of the show, thanks to the interaction with the artists and during the break they will be delighted with an aperitif on the panoramic terrace of the gorgeous Nazarena Theatre, a small thetre with 120 seats set in the heart of Taormina.
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Pedro Cano, lessons at the Ancient Theatre (January 2023)
PAINT EXHIBITION
Teatròs
by Pedro Cano
Cured by Giorgio Pellegrini
Palazzo Ciampoli, from January 20th to April 25th 2023
Opening Hours: Everyday 9.00am – 5.00pm (until March 15), 9.00am – 5.30pm (16-31 March), 9.00am – 6.00pm (1-30April).
Free Entrance
Sixteen large watercolors portraying.
As many as the stone theaters in the Mediterranean,
The Spanish painter Pedro Cano exhibits sixteen large watercolors made in thirty years of travel among the ancient theaters of the Mediterranean. From Jordan (Petra) to Spain (Cartagena), Syria Egypt (the Odeon of Alexandria) , Turkey, Libya, Greece and Italy (Ostia Antica, Villa Adriana and Taormina).
Mr Cano organised also two painting lessons, one at the Ancient Theater and the other one at Palazzo Ciampoli.
M0nday to Saturday (8.00am – 1.00pm)
Via Don Giovanni Minzoni – Taormina
Small market hall with stands of fruit, meat, fish, cheese and flowers
Every Wednesday (8.00am – 1.00pm)
Via Leonardo Da Vinci and via Wilhelm Von Gloeden – Taormina
eekly market with stands of shoes, clothes, households items, fruit, vegetables and more.
Monday to Saturday (5.00am – 12.00pm)
Behind Piazza Duomo – Catania
Famous fish market located in a pictoresque setting. Fish, meet, cheese and veg presented by enthusiastic market criers. Good restaurants all around.
PERMANENT MUSEUMS
Casa del Cinema
Museum that hosts posters and photographs of the film shot in Taormina. It is open every day from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10.00am to 10.00pm. Free entrance
It hosts the ticket office of the Fondazione Taormina Arte, where it is possible to purchase the tickets for most of the events held at the Ancient Theatre and at the Odeon
Address: Corso Umberto I n. 63 – Mobile: 0039 391 746 2146 – www.facebook.com/casadelcinemataormina
JANUARY
January 1/9 – Exhibition “Venite Adoremus” – Museo di Arti e Tradizioni Popolari
