Sicily Braces for G-7 Amid Fears About Protesters, Jihadists, and Mount Etna

The picturesque town of Taormina on Sicily’s Ionian coast, midway between Messina and Catania, has welcomed literary giants and philosophers, monarchs and Hollywood stars. D.H. Lawrence wrote his travel book Sea and Sardinia while living at Taormina. “Here the past is so much stronger than the present, that one seems remote like the immortals,” he wrote about the town overlooking a dark blue Mediterranean Sea. But most of Taormina’s 11,000 people, keen to see tourists, especially the...

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