The dawn sun broke over the Ionian Sea in a dazzling cascade of molten gold, crimson, and pale rose, illuminating the dramatic limestone cliffs of Taormina. Perched seven hundred feet above the crashing sapphire surf, upon the precipitous summit of Monte Tauro, stood Castello di Moretti. The colossal fourteenth-century Norman fortress was a marvel of medieval military engineering and baroque aristocratic luxury: towering curtain walls of honey-colored Sicilian limestone, battlements…
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