Dinner at the Edge of the Cliff

The eastern terrace of Castello di San Corvo was suspended like a stone eagle’s nest five hundred feet above the crashing azure surf of the Ionian Sea. Constructed in the fourteenth century by the Spanish viceroys, the terrace was framed by delicate Gothic arches of pale limestone that opened onto an uninhibited, panoramic vista of the Sicilian coastline. To the north, the twinkling amber lights of Taormina cascaded down the…