As soon as you arrive in Taormina, you will feel the magical, mythical atmosphere spread all around which has enchanted visitors from all over the world for years and years.
Settled on a hill of the Monte Tauro, Taormina dominates two grand, sweeping bays below and on the southern side, the top of Mount Etna, the european highest active volcano, often capped with snow, offering to the visitors a breathtaking, dramatic and memorable view.
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Feb. 23/28 – Carnival
Carnival 2017
Taormina, 23rd/28th February 2017
The complete PROGRAM of this year’s carnival
Thursday 23rd, piazza IX aprile @ 4.30pm > masquerade and games for kids. Minions, Spiderman, Peppa Pig and others. Awards for kids’ costumes.
Friday 24th, piazza IX aprile @ 3.30pm > face paintings
Friday 24th, piazza IX aprile @ 4.30pm > magic show for kids
Friday 24th, piazza IX aprile @ 5.30pm > Games for kids
Friday 24th, piazza IX aprile @ 6.30pm > Music and pop corn for everyone
Sunday 26th, Corso Umberto @ 3.00pm > carnival floats
Monday 27th, piazza IX aprile @3.30pm > Old games for kids
Monday 27th, piazza IX aprile @ 5.00pm > cotton candy and popcorns for everyone
Monday 27th, piazza IX aprile @ 5.30pm > Games for adults
Tuesday 28th, Corso Umberto @ 3.00pm > carnival floats
Watch the video: https://www.facebook.com/taocarnival/videos/653245014854920/
FB page: https://www.facebook.com/taocarnival/
Carnival is a Western Christian festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent. The main events typically occur during February or early March, during the period historically known as Shrovetide (or Pre-Lent). Carnival typically involves a public celebration and/or parade combining some elements of a circus, masks, and a public street party. People wear masks and costumes during many such celebrations, allowing them to lose their everyday individuality and experience a heightened sense of social unity. Common features of carnival include mock battles such as food fights; social satire and mockery of authorities; the grotesque body displaying exaggerated features, especially large noses, bellies, mouths, and phalli, or elements of animal bodies; abusive language and degrading acts; depictions of disease and gleeful death; and a general reversal of everyday rules and norms.
Feb. 10/28 – Ehibition of mini carnival carts
Exhibition of mini carnival carts of the Carnival of Acireale
Palazzo Corvaja, February 10/28 2017
Opening hours
from Monday to Saturday: 9.30am – 1.00pm and 4.00pm – 7.00 pm
Sunday: 10.00am – 1.00pm and 4.00pm – 7.30pm
Free entrance
Carnival of Acireale: One of Sicily’s Most Beautiful
It is considered one of Sicily’s most beautiful carnivals: the Carnival of Acireale, magnificent Baroque city in the Province of Catania.
Acireale’s Carnival boasts an almost-ancient tradition, having begun in the 16th Century – and since, having run every February from then on as a spontaneous party among the people. Peculiar to this fest was the launching of rotten eggs and citrus fruits in streets – at least until an edict finally banned this “game.”
At the start of the 1700s, the Carnival took on more refined tones thanks to a new addition: “abbatazzi” or folk poets that improvised rhymes on the streets of Acireale.
In the 19th Century, the “cassariata” then came on the scene, the parade of distinguished, horse-led carriages from which nobles launched sprays of candy and confetti at spectators.
Yet it was only in the 1930s that papier-mache masks entered into the picture, along with floats led by steers and accompanied by various characters and satirical groups in constant movement.
Making the Carnival of Acireale even more spectacular are the parades of ebullient and outrageous floats, a draw for thousands of tourists every February.
So beloved is the Carnival of Acireale that the act is repeated in August: taking advantage of the beautiful summer nights, the City puts on the Parade of the Grotesque Floats.
The merits of visiting Sicily and above all the splendid City of Acireale get bumped up even higher when you consider that not far off exist a range of breathtaking sites to visit. Think Catania, Mt. Etna, and the deep blue sea lying in wait on all sides of this amazing isle.
(Source: italia.it)
Jan. 27/Feb. 23 – Tauromenion old coins
Il Toro Il Dio L’Eroe – Tauromenion e le sue monete
The ancient Taormina and its coins
Palazzo Corvaja, from January 27th to Febrauary 23rd 2017
The exhibition arises from an idea of professors of the Universities of Messina and Calabria and will show not real coins but 15 educational panels.
Most part of the coins displayed dates back to the second half of the fourth and the third century before Christ that is the period in which Taormina was founded by Andromaco. An historical period rich of events and charactersed by the Chartaginian wars.
Dec. 27 / Jan. 7 – Exhib. Taormina Cinema
E X H I B I T I O N
Taormina Cinema
The Film festival, the main protagonists, the locations
Ex Palazzo Pretura (Corso Umberto), from December 27th 2016 to March 31st 2017 – free entrance
Dec. 26/Jan. 1 – CioccolArt Sicily Festival
CioccolArt Sicily Festival
Forza d’Agrò @ Convento Agostiniano, December 26th 2016 – January 1st 2017
This year CioccolArt will be held at the new museum of chocolate in Forza d’Agrò, a tiny picturesque village not far from Taormina.
The museum host a permanent exhibition of chocolate sculptures…a path through the most amazing places in Sicily. A delicious visual trip into the art and history of Sicily.
More info ASAP!
Info
https://www.facebook.com/CioccolArtSicilyMuseum/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/events/1260812803929098/
cioccolartmuseum@gmail.com
Dec. 26 – Jan. 8 – Presepe vivente – Living Nativity Scene
… e la Luce brillò… Venite e vedete!
13th edition
Trappitello (Taormina)
Parrocchia Sacro Cuore di Gesù – S. Venera
Trappitello – Chianchitta – Taormina (ME)
– 26 December 2016 – 5.00pm / 9.30pm
– 27 Dicembre 2016 – 6.00pm / 9.00pm
– 28 Dicembre 2016 – 6.00pm / 9.00pm
– 1 January 2017 – 6.00pm / 9.30pm
– 2 January 2017 – 6.00pm / 9.30pm
– 5 January 2017 – 6.00pm / 9.30pm
– 6 January 2017 – 6.00pm / 9.30pm
– 8 Gennaio 2017 dalle ore 17.00 alle ore 21.30
Free entrance. The presepe will be held in case of rain too. I
How to reach us: Motorway A18 Messina/Catania, exit Taormina, Direction SS. 185 (statal road, blu sign)
More info: T. +39 0942/50210 – M. +39 339/8320324 – 349/4289961
presepetrappitello@gmail.com
Facebook page: Presepe Vivente di Trappitello
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Dec. 20 / Jan. 5 – Photo Exhib. La Sicilia in Luce
Luoghi D’Autore, La Sicilia in Luce
Castello di Mola -Piazza Sant’Antonio, Castelmola. From December 20th 2016 to January 5th 2017
Opening Hours: 10.30am – 1.00pm and 2.00pm – 5.00pm
The exhibition is organised by the association AFI011 and its master photographer Mario Pollino. It gathers about 40 works made by the members of the association.
Main subject of the photos is the light in all its forms which describes and enhances the vivid colours of our beautiful island
Dec. 17 – Theatre: Appartamento Bisex
Appartamento Bisex
Theatrical performance (in Italian)
Taormina pedestrian area, Cine Teatro Olimpia, December 17th @ 9.30pm
Entrance: €5,00
Dec. 10 – Omaggio a Jean Cocteau
S P A Z I O A L S U D
Omaggio a Jean COCTEAU
Il Bell’Indifferente & La Voce Umana
Previous church Del Carmine, December 10th @ 6.00pm
Theatrical performance with Franco Carnazza, Rosita Gulotta and Rita Patanè
Dec. 7 / Jan. 8 – Exhib. by Ottavio Marino
S P A Z I O A L S U D
Photo Exhibition by Ottavio Marino
Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, sala Colonna, from December 7 2016 to January 8th 2017
Opening hours: 10.00am-1.00pm and 5.00pm-8.00pm
Free entrance
More than 20 works of the Italian photographer will be displayed in the evocative rooms of this Palace which dates back to the fourteenth century