I've a Simple Mind to Leave My Sicily Home ; Pop Veteran Jim Kerr Is Set to Sell His Hotel in Taormina, Sicily - an Area with Much to Offer Discerning Buyers From Britain

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The smart Sicilian resort of Taormina has long been favoured by artistic Brits in search of the more exotic. A byword for sin in Edwardian times, the town nestling in the shadow of smouldering Mount Etna with views over the sea has attracted visits from Oscar Wilde, D.H. Lawrence, Salvador Dali and Truman Capote.

An international gay enclave, it was described by the aesthete Sir Harold Acton in the Twenties as a 'polite synonym for sodom', though by the Fifties, when there were tea shops and the beginnings of modern tourism, he complained to Evelyn Waugh that it 'was now quite as boring as Bournemouth'.

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I've a Simple Mind to Leave My Sicily Home ; Pop Veteran Jim Kerr Is Set to Sell His Hotel in Taormina, Sicily - an Area with Much to Offer Discerning Buyers From Britain

Yet, unlike the rest of Sicily, it still attracts a starry crowd of artists and romantics, including Jim Kerr, of Simple Minds, who has built a hotel overlooking the town, and is now open to offers around the ?10million mark f...

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