Taormina in Sicily is a famous tourist mountain town facing the Ionian Sea and Mount Etna. The Ionian Sea is a bay in the Mediterranean Sea, with its deepest part reaching more than 5,000 meters, which is the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea. The town of Taormina has a long history, having been a Greek colony since 400 BC and coming under the jurisdiction of the Roman Empire until 212 BC. People praise Taormina as the most beautiful town in Sicily: "If you can only choose one destination in Sicily, then taormina is the right place to go." It is because of this recommendation that we are positioned here to experience the story of "half sea water and half fire".
After we parked our cars, we trembled and walked through the steep, seemingly headless steps, sideways through the narrowest alley I had ever seen, and directly at the foot of the heart-shaped Isla Bella.
When the gaze meets the intoxicating blue water, I realize that all language is croaking. Come to a wave of photos first:
This is the blue of the Mediterranean! Sitting on such a luxurious blue, we can't help but let outsiders resent the creation, and secretly wonder: The same descendants of the earth, why can't we divide some brightness and intensity? As a tourist, I just want to greedily let my eyes suck up this intoxicating blue, fill it with memories, and take it home to digest slowly. When the sky was facing the continuous rain in England, he extracted a little dark blue from the memory basin and stirred the gray and blue into a green to give life a touch of fresh comfort.
The water here is so deep that even the parasols and deck chairs by the sea are uniform in color (it should be used by different operators to mark the scope of business), solemn and delicate. Sitting here in a daze, I should think about the meaning of life and the eternal righteousness of life.
After looking at the sea for a long time, the eyes unconsciously search for the flowers and trees outside the hotel, or let the eyes climb to the heights to see the swaying palm trees, to relax the tension caused by the thick blue to the eyes.
April 9 Square and the Greek Theater are crowded with natural people, and tourists are having fun. I secretly photographed the happy couple as I pleased, wishing them love forever in this place facing the sea.
Taormina had to grandly launch another attraction, Mount Etna. Mount Etna is the tallest mountain in Sicily, the highest active volcano in Europe, and one of the largest active volcanoes in the world. According to historical records, it has erupted more than 200 times; Since the beginning of the 21st century, it has erupted 11 times, most recently in 2022.
Taormina is the best place to see Mount Etna from a distance. Our homestay faces the sea and Mount Etna. The owner of the homestay grandly launched the balcony with sea view, pointed to Mount Etna in the distance, a blue patch, and said: "Look, this is my beauty!" It's not a cloud, it's volcanic smoke. "We solemnly take on this solemn pride. It is said that the volcano also erupted in February this year, and has been smoking ever since, and the volcanic magma is still flowing out from time to time. So, we stared at the changes in the crater, after all, this was the first time in our lives that we had seen an "active" volcano. So I photographed the blue sea and the rose-colored clouds.
At night, against the backdrop of night, I saw the red volcanic lava!
After returning to inquire about the information, it was learned that Mount Etna also recorded in the ancient book "ZhuFanzhi": "There are caves in the country that are deep, and the fires are in the four seasons, and the distant view is towards the fireworks, and the fire is very fierce in the close view, and the Chinese people are like bar and big stones, weighing five hundred pounds or a thousand pounds, and the holes are exploded, and they are shattered like pumice stones." ”
The situation of "shattering like pumice stone" can only be known by looking closely. We were in Catania (the second largest city in Sicily) and experienced a walk into an active volcano. After driving for more than an hour from Catania, it is time to reach the abandoned car landing. The road was easy at first, and I was attracted by a kind of white tree. This tree is called the birth tree, which is said to be a unique tree species here, but the color and trunk look like a birch tree in the northeast.
It was a dry and hot weather of nearly 30 degrees below the mountain, but the wind and rain in the mountains were uncertain, and in the blink of an eye, the rain was miserable and the wind was fierce. In the distance, a chinese landscape painting that has escaped alive - under the epidemic situation, it is difficult to return to China, and I did not expect that homesickness would be comforted here.
The crater like the summit of Mt. Fuji in the distance is where the smoke comes from, but it is impossible to approach, and can only watch the clouds drifting, only hating that he does not have the light posture of the clouds, floating up to see carefully.
Like camels climbing the dunes, they climbed to the top.
So after hard work, I saw the crater. On the periphery is a large crater, and inside is a small crater with a large crater set up a small crater.
See the volcanic ash stone "crushed like pumice stone". According to the guide, there are two forms of volcanic activity. One is a volcanic ash that erupts upwards at a point and cools down, as fine and uniform as a fist or fingernail. The flowers that bloom on this soil all exude a resolute and stubborn vitality, which seems to be stained with blood.
The other is volcanic lava flowing out, which is a huge rock block, flowing all the way, it is a scar on the surface.
Taormina is such a place where half seawater and half flames are. Its beauty is its everyday life, but it can make our daily life beautiful.