All the sites of the Naxos Taormina Archaeological Park are regularly open, even on August 15th, with a rich offer of events wanted by the director Gabriella Tigano which complement and make the visit to Taormina, Isola Bella and Giardini Naxos even more attractive.
In Taormina, the central week of Ferragosto, from 12 to 16, the Ancient Theater is open continuously from 9 am to midnight (last admission at 11 pm): an extraordinary opportunity to relive the magic of the large cavea overlooking the sea and Etna – the second largest in the Mediterranean after Syracuse and the most iconic for its landscape that bursts onto the scene – in the evening quiet, with gentler temperatures and under the stars. Also in the historic center, Palazzo Ciampoli, offers the archaeological and multimedia exhibition “From Tauromenion to Tauromenium”, the journey into the “invisible” city, the Greek and Roman Taormina with its monuments, the domus, the tombs of the sepulchral road that leads from the mountain to the sea to be discovered with the support of finds and 3D reconstructions.
Among the gems of the exhibition, the statue of the “Priestess of Isis”, found in Taormina in front of the Church of San Pancrazio (ancient temple of the Egyptian cults of Isis and Serapis) in 1867 and the following year transferred to the Salinas Museum in Palermo. Visits every day from 10 to 19. In Giardini Naxos, the Museum is open to the public every day from 9 to 19: to enrich the visit experience, in the archaeological area, is the exhibition of sculptures by Stefania Pennacchio entitled “Ecate.
The way of desire”, edited by Angelo Crespi who last Saturday took part in the presentation of the catalogue, the videos of Joseph The Sword and the night performance “La notte di Ecate” with the percussions of Antonio Testa and the reciting voice of Sara Pennacchio, texts by Fulvia Toscano. A true immersion in Greek culture and the cult of Hecate, a divinity linked to the concept of the most intimate and profound desire. Daily visits from 9 to 19 also to Isola Bella, where visitors, in addition to the maze of paths among the trees and rocks and the rooms of Villa Bosurgi, will find two installations. In the former Billiard Room are the works of Concetta De Pasquale with “The Route of the Heart”, edited by Andrea Guastellainspired by the adventures of the British naturalist Lady Florence Trevelyan, who found her little Eden in Taormina (until 4/11); while in the botanical park, the trees of “Wish Tree for Sicily” – “The wish tree for Sicily” – of the interactive art project by Yoko Ono, curated by Nino Sottile Zumbois enriched every day by the babel of multilingual messages and wishes entrusted to the wind, according to Japanese tradition, by hundreds of passing visitors.