“Never has a theater audience had such a show before them.” Thus wrote Goethe of the Greek Theater of Taormina in his famous ‘Italian Journey’ travelogue.   The Ancient Theater of Taormina is the second largest of its kind in Sicily, after the Greek Theater of Syracuse.

Built in the 3rd century BC, carved out of the hard rock of Monte Tauro, it could welcome thousands of spectators. The Greeks, who occupied the Taormina area in 403 BC, built the theater, which was remodeled a century later by the Romans, who had conquered Taormina and made it a Roman colony.