Taormina Tour

On the origin of Taormina (Tauromenion, Tauromenium) many are the news, but uncertain for documentation and reliability. Diodorus of Sicily, in the 14th book of his Bibliotheca Historica, attests that the Sicilians lived in the fortress of Taormina, living from agriculture and livestock, even before the landing of the Greeks calcidesi in Taormina bay (753 BC), where the mouths the river Alcantara, founded Naxos (Giardini Naxos today), the first Greek colony in Sicily. Dionysius of Syracuse, of Doric origin, and an ally of Sparta in the war against Athens, tolerated for a short time the presence of Jonici of Halkida in Evia Naxos, allies of Athens, and moves against them. The calcidesi were placed in the downstream part of the Monte Tauro (Sicily), in which lived the Sicilians along with other Ionic who had previously settled by Naxos. But in the years of XCVI Olympiad (396 BC) the nassioti masse, threatened by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, moved to Tauromenion ...