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Isolabella has a history that goes from far away and was donated to the Municipality of Taormina by Ferdinando I di Borbone around 1806. The island was bought around 1890 by the rich English noblewoman, Florence Trevelyan who he then married the Taorminese surgeon prof. Salvatore Cacciola.
On the death of Lady Treveylan and her husband, the little island was inherited by his nephew and lawyer Cesare Acrosso who sold it to the Lo Turco family. In 1954 the Isolabella – the area of the islet – was purchased for a fee in lire equal to the current 38,000 ₤ from the Bosurgi family of Messina, who built a village with 12 autonomous residences and a tiny pool camouflaged between rocks and plantations, in order to cheer and host their friends entrepreneurs and bankers.
The Bosurgi family owned Sanderson, a historic Mexican citrus processing company. The bankruptcy of this in 1982, paved the way for the sale by auction of family assets that guaranteed the company’s debts with sureties. Among these assets there was also the Isolabella with its villa. A first auction was therefore set for October 17, 1984 with a base of five and a half billion Lira and a minimum raise of one hundred million, but went deserted. On 8 October 1984 the Sicilian Region intervened and, at the request of the Municipality of Taormina, the Regional Department of Cultural Heritage declared Isolabella a monument of historical and artistic interest of particular value as “an isolated example of unicum as a naturalistic, historical and cultural heritage “, subjecting it to protection restrictions. The decree considered the island as a “natural monument”. A new auction on March 6, 1985, despite the base had been reduced by 20%, did not see any buyer present, so in 1990 the island was finally purchased by the Department of Cultural Heritage. After 28 years now, the future of Isolabella comes back into play.
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