RECOMMENDED ITINERARIES:
1) Taormina 2) Giardini’s sea promenade and the archaeological
area of Naxos 3) Alcantara river’s Gorges 4) Mount Etna.
5) The baroque art of Acireale and Catania. 6) Cities of Art:
Siracusa, Ragusa, Modica, Agrigento, Enna and Palermo.
USEFUL
INFORMATION/DISTANCES: San Marco beach, 1 Km. –
Taormina, 4 Km- Etna Nord ski resort and Linguaglossa, 12
Km – Alcantara river’s Gorges, 7 Km – Catania,
km 41(30 minute drive) – Messina, 46 Km (30 minute drive)
– Siracusa, 90 Km (60 minute drive) - Enna/P.zza Armerina,
110/90 Km (70 minute drive) - Ragusa-Modica, 130Km (90 minute
drive) – Agrigento, Km 204(90 minute drive) –
Palermo, 240 Km ( 120 minute drive).
HOW TO GET TO CALATABIANO: BY AIRPLANE: Catania
Fontanarossa airport – BY CAR: from Catania (highway
A-18), exit Fiumefreddo, road SS 120 Piedimonte-Fiumefreddo
– road SS 114 (direction Messina), from here through
any of the three linking streets, 1 Km; from Messina (A18),
exit Giardini Naxos, road SS 114 (direction Catania), 3 Km.
BY TRAIN: railway station of Calatabiano or Taormina.