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Climate
Giardini
Naxos, due to its position, enjoys a particularly mild
microclimate: the mountains that surround it protect the bay
from the wind and rain and even in Winter time warm and
sunny days are very frequent. During Summer, on the other
hand, the constant breeze from the sea frees
Giardini Naxos from the heat
that torments instead the inland and the hill towns.
The many beaches of
Giardini Naxos and the
cliffs of Taormina
Besides the beach in front of the hotel, in
Giardini Naxos you might change
type of beach every day: within the bay there is a
wide variety of sand, dephts and
shores. You may see one right after the other
long stretches of the finest golden sand with turquoise
lagoons formed by low shores and small creeks
wedged between points of lava rock, there are
big facilities equipped for water sports and games
for children, and long free beaches with a
view that ranges from Etna to the coast of
Calabria.
Outside the bay, in the outskirts of
Giardini Naxos called
Recanati the
beaches are big but made of pebbles and the water is colder
and less clear (they are in the open sea and currents
arrive) while the coast of Taormina is splendid for
its steep cliffs with caves and reefs (accessible only by
boat) ideal for diving and it has two small,
scenic bays (Bay of Mazzarò and
Isola Bella) with
the beach made of big pebbles that you can reach going down
the long stairs carved into the rock. Read
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Overlooking the seafront, Hotel Palladio is
situated in the centre of the bay of Naxos, between Cape
Schisò, site of the
first Greek colony in Sicily, and the Cape of
Taormina.
The Hotel is located in front of the sandy beaches
of San Giovanni, in the historical centre
between private lidos and public beaches, shops and
restaurants and only 15 minutes walk from
the wonderful park and the
archaeological museum of Giardini
Naxos. The Hotel Palladio is
situated in a spot easy to reach, very
convenient for the
excursions and to
move around using public transport: next to the Hotel there
are the stops of the
buses that in ten minutes take you to the
centre of Taormina and allow you to reach Messina,
Catania, and the small towns of their provinces. Besides
with these buses you get to
the railway station of Taormina and
Giardini in five minutes and in an hour
to the airport Fontanarossa in
Catania.
The beach
opposite Hotel Palladio
To go to the beach
from the Hotel Palladio you only have to cross
the road, the promenade just in front of the hotel, and the
go down ten steps to the beach which here is sandy,
medium-fine grain with few pebbles, with a soft shore where
to walk and a very clear sea water. For about five meters
from the shore the water is low and allows you to walk and
the seabed is sandy at the beginning and then, when it gets
deeper, it becomes stony, which makes the water perfectly
transparent, with iridescent colours. If you enjoy
snorkelling a few metres to the left you will find reefs
with colourful colonies of fishes and starfish.
Our guests can choose whether to take advantage of the
discount applied to them by the lido (located in front on
the right), equipped with parasols and deck-chairs,
renting canoes and boats or go to the free beach
(located in front on the to the left)
for which we provide parasol free of charge. Beach
towels are always provided free of charge from the hotel.
The beach seen from the hotel terrace and the hotel seen
from the beach
Walking
in Giardini Naxos
When you exit Hotel Palladio (located right between the old
part of town and the tourist part)
if you head right to the North, you will enter the
historical centre of a typical fishermen town with its
old fishermen's houses, coves wedged between black lava
rocks, the narrow streets that open onto the sea and the
squares with antique confectioneries. If you go along the
promenade to the South, instead, you will find yourselves
among trendy bars, restaurants, shops and big private lido,
and after a ten minute walk, you reach the picturesque
Castle of Schisò built all
around a medieval tower. Next to it there is the
entrance of the splendid Archaeological Park of Naxos,
with a fort of the period of the
Borboni and the Archaeological Museum
(which keeps many precious artefacts and tells the story of
the Greek colonization in Sicily) located within.
The Archaeological site of
Naxos is an oasis out of time
where you can retrace the routes of the ancient Greek
colony, in a setting of opulent Mediterranean vegetation
with the majestic backdrop of Mount Etna.
Opposite the entrance to the Archaeological Park, there is
the port with its colourful fishing boats and just beyond
you can admire the impressive river of lava that,
in the prehistoric era, came from Etna down to the sea,
solidifying in a picturesque series of shoals and rocks.
Here, set against a panorama that sweeps from Mount
Tauro,
on which Taormina is perched up, on to the
slopes of Etna, there is the statue of a Nike that reminds
the landing of the first Greek colonies in Sicily.
If you proceed towards the inside, out of the Bay, at 1.5km
from hotel Palladio you will get to the outskirts of
Giardini Naxos,
Recanati, born 30 years ago
where it used to be a garden of lemon and orange trees
(luckily partly preserved in the area of the archaeological
park), home to the fairgrounds, many clubs, the big
Saturday morning flea-market and crowded with
mini-apartments and hotels. From the coast of
Recanati you reach the mouth of
the Alcantara river.
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How
to reach us
All the directions to get to Sicily and reach the hotel
Palladio
Parking
We have for our guests a few car spaces, on the
road, unattended, which are free of charge, but not reserved
for the individual guest: the first to come, may park.
Upon reservation, we have a few
parking spaces at the cost of Euro 10.00
per night, in an outdoor parking, closed by an
electric gate, which is 200 meters from the hotel.
Parking spaces are limited so they should be booked well in
advance.
Then there are the municipal spots along the street marked
by blue stripes: on the waterfront they are free of charge,
while on the Corso Umberto they
require a payment from 8.00am to 10.30pm and the costs is
EURO 0.80 per hour; automatic machines placed on the wall
along the road every 200 meters issue the tickets: a lack of
exhibition of the ticket leads to a fine of Euro 8.00.
Giardini
Naxos and Taormina
Giardini
Naxos and Taormina meet in the Bay of Naxos: Taormina
dominates the rocky Northern part constituted by the steep
cliff of Monte Tauro, while
Giardini Naxos lies all on the
sandy Southern part, culminating in the tip of Cape
Schisò formed by a
scenographic prehistoric flow of
Etna lava. Giardini Naxos is one
of the places of Sicily most celebrated for its
magnificent scenery, long beaches, crystal clear sea with
its changing colours (created by the presence of both
sandy shores and lava), the always mild climate.
It is an important archaeological site, home of the
first Greek colony in Sicily and it is located in a
strategic position: a few kilometres from the
slopes of Etna, from the Riviera of the Cyclops and at the
crossroads of ancient roads leading to the
Alcantara and the
d'Agrò valley.
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