Taormina, the locations of the successful series “The White Lotus 2”

E’ boom in bookings to Taormina from the United States for the season 2023 after the great success of “The White Lotus”. The second season of the television series directed by Mike White is in fact filmed in some of the most enchanting places in Taormina. To consecrate “The White Lotus” anche i Golden Globes, where the series was awarded for best drama miniseries and for best supporting actress, Jennifer Coolidge, as Tanya, rich woman and a little’ corny. There are several locations that have made Americans fall in love with them.

LE LOCATION DI THE WHITE LOTUS

Among the main locations of “The White Lotus”, series that narrates the vicissitudes and whims of a handful of rich people, there is the San Domenico Palace in Taormina, l’hotel Four Season. But it's all the historic center of Taormina, from Corso Umberto to the central square with its splendid terrace overlooking the Ionian Sea and Mount Etna, to star in the television series. Other enchanting places that have captured the hearts of US tourists are the splendid Isola Bella and the suggestive Blue Grotto. And certainly could not miss the Greek theatre of Taormina, the best known in the world. From the theater it is possible to admire a magnificent view of the gulf of Schisò and the Etna volcano. In the end, among the Taormina locations, also a monument of taste: the Bam Bar with its incomparable Sicilian granitas. There is also a surge in requests for excursions and visits to Etna, often present on the scene of “The White Lotus”.

ICONIC ITEMS

Among the most recurring elements in “The White Lotus” there are the Moor's heads, present a little’ anywhere on the set of the series. Iconic symbols of Sicily, the Moorish heads are typical artifacts of local craftsmanship. The famous colored ceramics, used as decorative vases, are linked to the Arab invasion of Sicily. According to a legend they are linked to a story of passion, revenge and jealousy born between a Palermo girl and a Moor. When the Arab soldier revealed that he would return to his wife, the girl killed him in her sleep and used the head as a vase for flowers.

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