The featured image’s vantage point is the grounds of the castle for which the relevant hilltop village is named.
Castelmola is directly behind Taormina, and very steeply above it.
The eastern shoreline of Sicily sits circa 530 metres lower than did my camera at 7.20 pm on 02 October 2023,
Deploying a wide angle lens enabled me to “capture” a deal of the jawdropping view we were enjoying, albeit at a cost – my image “flattens” rather than flatters Etna.
Its summit is more than 2,800 metres higher than Castelmola’s.
Click here to see various scenic aspects of Castelmola…and its “obscenic”aspect. Be warned: part of the village’s tourist-schtick is “phallocentric”.
Until now, this series has looked from various vantage points, across to Etna.
All remaining chapters-proper are set on the volcano.
We’ll preface those with a brief “intermission feature”, which will include an “irrelevant” but sublime musical bonus.