TAORMINA: THE GREEK... by SirRichard
TAORMINA: THE GREEK THEATREOne of the most charming places in Taormina is its Greek Theatre, at the top of the hill. You can just sit there for hours and see the sun go down, with the sea, the Etna volcano, all that quiet atmosphere...
The Greek Theatre in Taormina is the second-largest in Sicily after the one in Siracusa. All the Romans did later, in accordance with their well-known ostentatious nature, was enlarge the theatre as it was very small. And it apparently took decades to build. It is fifty metres wide, one hundred and twenty metres long and twenty metres high, which means that about 100,000 cubic metres of stone had to be removed.
