Taormina is a fascinating town, with little Saracenic touches everywhere. The architecture is of a dozen different styles and epochs, the prevailing impression that remains is of Sicilian Gothic. Many façades are inlaid with a pretty diaper pattern of black and white lava stone. The Palazzo Corvaia has a quaint relief of the creation of Eve, the Fall, Adam digging and Eve spinning with a distaff.
“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Where was then the gentleman?”
Taormina clings like a gray limpet to the gray rock; the town is built on a narrow crescent, on one side a precipice, on the other
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