Taormina - Castelmola
Circular walk, 8 km
You go up from Mazzarò with the cable car. Then you walk through Taormina to Via Crucis/Salita Castello. You walk up with stairs to Chiesa Madonna della Rocca. You walk further up to Castelmola. You walk through the town and you have beautiful views of Etna. Then you descend back to Taormina over the Sentiero dei Saraceni, with views of Taormina and the sea. You walk through the town and you walk from Belvedere di Via Pirandello further down with stairs to the road. From there you walk to the parking lot.
- shape
- loop
- length
- 7 km 849
- location
- Sicily, Italy
- start / arrival
- parking area Mazzarò Funivia, Via Nazionale 147, Taormina
- path
- path:35% stairs:30% road:24% main road:11% track:0%
- elevation
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rise: 583m / fall: -583m
lowest: 19m / highest: 473m
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Points of interest
- Cemetery Castelmola
- Duomo (XV), Taormina
- Santuario Madonna della Rocca
- Chiesa di Santa Caterina di Alessandria
- Chiesa di San Biagio
- Chiesa di San Nicolò di Bari, Castelmola
- Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata
- Quattro Fontane
- Tombe Bizantine (cave)
- Porta Catania
- Torre dell'Orologio e Porta di Mezzo
- Castello di Monte Tauro (castle, XII)
- Porta Messina
- Castello di Castelmola
- Mazzarò Funivia, Taormina
- Parcheggio Via Corita di Mola
- Parcheggio Castelmola
- Parco di Lady Florence Trevelyan (view)
- Belvederedi Via Pirandello
- Piazza Nove Aprile
- Madonna della Rocca
- Via Madonna della Rocca
- Via Leonardo da Vinci
- Piazza della Garitella
- Via Porta di Mola
- Monte Tauro (395m)
- Punte Mole (802m)
- Monte Ziretto (579m)
- Monte Veneretta (884m)
- Portella Pandolfo (560m)
- Portella del Giasso (671m)
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