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Taormina Audio Tour with App : Teatro Antico and Piazza IX Aprile

By iTourist
Free cancellation available
The previous price was €15 and current price is €12 per adult

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 8h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

Discover Taormina in an innovative and engaging way with an interactive audio tour right on your smartphone. Thanks to the i-Tourist app you can explore the city at your own pace by following 15 taps full of stories, curiosities and immersive content. Admire Taormina’s famous Ancient Theatre with its spectacular view of Mount Etna and the sea, stroll along the lively Corso Umberto and reach the picturesque Piazza IX Aprile, one of Sicily’s most iconic viewpoints.

The tour also offers a holistic approach: in addition to history and art, it invites you to experience the places with greater awareness, being inspired by the sights, sounds and unique atmosphere of the Pearl of the Ionian. No groups and no fixed hours : start when you want, take breaks when you want and experience Taormina in an authentic, flexible and personal way. An experience suitable for all ages, ideal for discovering the city in freedom and with a deeper look.

Activity location

  • Palazzo della Badia Vecchia - Museo archeologico di Taormina
    • Via Circonvallazione 30, Palazzo Badia Vecchia
    • 98039, Taormina, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Corso Umberto
    • Corso Umberto
    • 98039, Taormina, Sicilia, Italy

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Taormina Audio Tour with App : Teatro Antico and Piazza IX Aprile

  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h
    8h
  • English
Price details
€15.00
€12.00 x 1 Adult€12.00
Total
The previous price was €15.00 and current price is €12.00
20% off

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Support / technical assistance in case of problems during use
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Full access to all multimedia content
  • What's includedWhat's included
    No app downloads — works directly from your browser
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Geo location map to easily reach points of interest
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Entrance fees not included must be paid in person on site
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Offline access
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    Choose your transport (not included)
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    Smartphones and headphones (bring your own)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Physical Guide in person (not required)

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Palazzo della Badia Vecchia - Museo archeologico di Taormina

  • 20m
  • Admission ticket not included
Its walls, built between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, tell a storey of defence and silence. Originally, it was probably a fortified structure of Swabian times. Observe the battlements in the Catalan-Gothic style : they seem ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Scale accesso Castello Saraceno

  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
The first defensive structures here date back to Greek times, around the fourth century BC. The Greeks had immediately understood the strategic value of this hill: from up here you could control the ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Chiesa di San Giuseppe

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
This church was founded between the end of the seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries, in a period marked by reconstruction after the great earthquakes that had struck eastern Sicily. Taormina, like many cities on the island, was ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Chiesa di San Pancrazio

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
This church is dedicated to San Pancrazio, considered by tradition the first bishop of the city. It is said that he arrived in Sicily in the first century AD, sent by the Apostle Peter to spread ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Corso Umberto

  • 20m
This same track has existed for more than two thousand years. In Roman times it was part of the Via Valeria, a fundamental artery that connected territories, goods, people and destinies. Today he still connects, but in a different way... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Duomo di Taormina

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
The cathedral was founded in the 13th century, at a time when faith and defence walked together. For this reason his appearance is solid, almost severe. The thick walls, the compact shapes, the façade that resembles a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Villa Comunale

  • 20m
As your footsteps follow the shaded avenues, know that this space was born in the late nineteenth century as a private garden. Florence Trevelyan, an English noblewoman with a free and visionary soul, imagined and cured him. Dismissed by the British court... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Piazza IX Aprile

  • 15m
Meditation “Between Fire and Wave”. If you are here, in front of this panorama, it is no accident. Piazza IX Aprile is a threshold point: between earth and sky, between fire and water, between what you have been and what you are becoming. Etna in front of you is not just a mountain, the sea is not just a horizon. That's two...

Naumachia - Antico Gymnasium romano

  • 15m
This wall dates back to the Roman Imperial Age, between the first and second centuries AD. It is more than a hundred metres long and is built in red brick, according to a Roman technique called ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

The Odeon

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
This small covered theatre dates back to Roman imperial times, probably between the first and second centuries AD. It was a space for a few: music, poetry, words meant to be ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Palazzo Corvaja

  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Its origins date back to Arab times, around the year 1000, when Taormina was part of a refined defensive and administrative system. The square tower you see is the most ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Piazza IX Aprile

  • 15m
This square bears the name of April 9, 1860, a date born of an error and transformed into a symbol. On that day Taormina believed Garibaldi had entered Palermo. It wasn't true, but the news ignited a... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Porta Catania di Taormina

  • 10m
This gate was built in 1440, when Taormina was a fortified city and every access had a vital value. From this gap they came - Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Porta Messina

  • 10m
This gate was rebuilt in 1808 and was originally called Porta Ferdinandea, dedicated to Ferdinand I of Bourbon. But the place where you are is much older : already in medieval times here existed ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Ancient Theatre of Taormina

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
This theatre was born in the third century BC, when the Greeks chose this precise point of the hill not only for its beauty, but for its energy. Nothing was random. The Greeks believed that places had ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Taormina (Pass by)

The Flavours of Taormina – Journey through Sicilian Cuisine, Sweets and Wines of Etna. Each city tells its own storey through monuments, squares and landscapes. Taormina, on the other hand, also tells it through its flavours. Walking through the alleys of the old town, between Corso Umberto and the terraces overlooking the Ionian Sea, you can immediately perceive the scent of Sicilian cuisine: an ancient tradition that combines Greek, Arab, Norman and Spanish influences, transforming simple ingredients into ...

Piazza Duomo (Pass by)

The Secret of the Sacred Bull – Lost Symbols of Taormina. There are symbols that we observe without really noticing them. Figures that appear on coats of arms, monuments and ancient documents, guarding meanings forgotten by time. In Taormina one of these symbols is everywhere, yet almost no one knows its history: the mysterious Sacred Bull. To discover this riddle we must find ourselves in the heart of ...

Isola Bella (Pass by)

Isola Bella: The Island that Appears and Disappears. We are in the bay of Taormina, at the foot of the promontory on which the historic city stands. From Taormina you can easily reach it by going down by cable car to Mazzarò and continuing for a few minutes on foot along the coast. Alternatively, a scenic walk connects the historic centre to the coast through ancient roads that offer breathtaking views of the Ionian Sea. The first thing that strikes you is its unique appearance ...

Chiesa Madonna della Rocca (Pass by)

Our Lady of the Rock – Apparitions and Secrets in the Sacred Grotto. Look up to the mountain overlooking Taormina. Between the stone and the sky, hidden among the rocks of Mount Tauro, is one of the most suggestive and spiritual places in Sicily: the Sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca. To reach it you have to climb along ancient paths and stairs that for centuries have accompanied pilgrims, travellers and locals to this corner of silence. The journey is already part of the experience ... Visiting hours. Winter period : 09 : 30 - 12 : 30 - Summer period : 09 : 30 - 12 : 30 and 16 : 00 - 19 : 30. They may vary, better check first.

Taormina (Pass by)

Taormina in Festa – Traditions, Faith and Shows between Sea and Etna. There is a moment when Taormina changes its face. The squares are filled with people, the bells ring in the medieval alleys, the scent of Sicilian specialities invades the streets and the city becomes a big open-air stage. To really understand the soul of Taormina it is necessary to discover the festivals, events and traditions that mark the rhythm of the year ...

Location

Activity location

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    Palazzo della Badia Vecchia - Museo archeologico di Taormina
    • Via Circonvallazione 30, Palazzo Badia Vecchia
    • 98039, Taormina, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Corso Umberto
    • Corso Umberto
    • 98039, Taormina, Sicilia, Italy

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