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Introduction to Ionian Coast 
It's Sicily's eastern Ionian coast which draws most visitors, attracted by some of the island's most exciting sights – natural and constructed. The most likely arrival point is Messina, which receives a constant stream of ferries bearing trains across the Straits from Calabria. Taormina, most chic of the island's resorts and famed for its remarkable Graeco-Roman theatre, is an hour's train ride south, and lava-built Catania, Sicily's second city, is another hour beyond: both places (indeed the whole of this part of the coast) are dominated by the massive presence of Mount Etna, Europe's highest volcano. A road and a narrow-gauge, single-track railway circumnavigate the lower slopes of Etna, passing through a series of hardy towns surrounded by swirls of black rock spat from the volcano. Further south, out of the lee of Etna, lie traces of the ancient Greek cities that once lined the southeastern coast. Megara Hyblaea has the most extensive remains, and the route concludes in Siracusa – formerly the most important and beautiful city in the Hellenistic world