Casa Cuseni · Taormina
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DoSicilyVia Leonardo da Vinci 5 · upper Taormina
Hala says
A 1905 hilltop villa built by the English painter Robert Kitson, later inherited by his niece Daphne Phelps, who ran it as a salon for much of the 20th century: Tennessee Williams, Picasso, Bertrand Russell, D.H. Lawrence all passed through. It holds what the museum says is the only surviving Frank Brangwyn-designed interior in the world, made in 1910. Visit by guided tour only; book by email a day or two ahead. Daphne's memoir A House in Sicily is the thing to read first.
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- Neighborhood — Via Leonardo da Vinci 5 · upper Taormina
- Time — 90 min
- Effort — A
From the HALA guide, reviewed August 2026.
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