ARABIAN NECROPOLIS IN TAORMINA

A few hundred meters from Corso Umberto, along the Via Pirandello, there is the Arabian necropolis.

Necropoli - Taomina

It alleged to have been built during the Byzantine period, between the tenth and eleventh centuries. The necropolis is defined in the columbarium method, because it consists of symmetrical cells on top of each other put.

Now, you can only see the remains of a larger building that stretched toward the northeast, placing itself among the current remains and the St. Peter's Church.

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