Monday, December 21, 2009
Taormina railway station
"Une chose est certaine: Taormina a construit sa fortune touristique sur les extravagances, les bizarreries, les folies de ses visiteurs, sur les "amours singuliers" (pour reprendre l'expression de Peyrefitte) et les vices privés (mais si peu secrets) de ses barons...
Il y a une masse d'anecdotes fort colorées sur les personnages de ces années... Les visiteurs, les fameux "barons", arrivaient par un train spécial, que l'on avait créé exprès: le Londres-Paris-Taormina. A Rome, on ajoutait une voiture en provenance de Berlin. On l'appelait "le Train des Barons". Ses wagon-lits réunissaient "la fine fleur de la pédérastie européenne".
Gaetano Saglimbeni, I peccati e gli amori di Taormina, Messina, 1990, p. 32-33 et 56-57 (cité par Giovanni Dall' Orto).
"There is no doubt that Taormina built its touristic fame on the eccentricities, odd and strange ways of its visitors, on the "amours singuliers" (according to Peyrefitte) and private vices (but far from being secret) of his barons...
There are so many colorful stories about the characters of these years... The visitors, the so-called "barons", were travelling to Taormina in a special train, created just for them: the London-Paris-Taormina. In Rome, a carriage from Berlin was added. It was called "The Train of the Barons". In its sleepers was gathered the flower of European pederasts.
Gaetano Saglimbeni, I peccati e gli amori di Taormina, Messina, 1990, p. 32-33 and 56-57 (quoted by Giovanni Dall' Orto).
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