Villa Comunale

Before being given to the City in 1922, the Public Gardens were the private garden of the residence of an English noblewoman who lived in Taormina at the end of the nineteenth century and married the mayor of the city.

Lady Florence Trevelyan had the park built as an english garden full of plants and flowers of different species and from all over the world. The fancy of the noblewoman is also evident in the buildings with the shape of a pagoda, still visible today, that Lady Florence, an enthusiastic ornithologist, exploited as an observation point for birds.

The park has also a magnificent view that has as background Etna and the sea of Giardini Naxos.