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2000 (): The Film Festival "Taormina Arte" (Taormina Film Fest) was inaugurated, attracting large numbers of visitors to Taormina and Grand Hotel Timeo. 2010 (): In January, the Franza family sold both Grand Hotel Timeo and Villa Sant’Andrea to Orient-Express Hotels. 2014 (): The company changed its name to Belmond Ltd.
Taormina (UK: / ˌ t ɑː ɔːr ˈ m iː n ə / TAH-or-MEE-nə, [2] US: /-n ɑː /-nah, also / t aʊər ˈ-/, [3] [4] Italian: [ta.orˈmiːna]; Sicilian: Taurmina) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy. Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century.
Belmond Villa Sant’Andrea is a hotel on Sicily's Bay of Mazzaro. It was built in the late 1800s as a private villa by an Englishman called Robert Trewhella. [1] The hotel was purchased in 2010 by Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. which in March 2014 changed its name to Belmond Ltd. At that time Villa Sant'Andrea was renamed Belmond Villa Sant'Andrea ...
Isola Bella (Sicilian: Ìsula Bedda) is a small island near Taormina, Sicily, southern Italy. Also known as The Pearl of the Ionian Sea , it is located within a small bay on the Ionian Sea ; it was a private property, for a time owned by Florence Trevelyan , until 1990, when it was bought by the Region of Sicily, being turned into a nature ...
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Taormina was renamed "Al-Mu'izziyya" in honour of Caliph al-Mu'izz (reigned 953–75). Muslim rule of the town (see History of Islam in southern Italy) lasted until 1078, when it was captured by the Norman count Roger I of Sicily. At this time Taormina and the surrounding Val Demone were still predominately Greek speaking. [19]