Already very popular among foreign travelers, Taormina, in the last decades of the nineteenth century, is no longer just a stop on a Grand Tour with mainly cultural purposes, but becomes a "tourist" destination in the most modern sense of the term. Many foreigners stay there for long periods, guests of the hotel facilities which, starting from the Hotel Timeo, become more and more numerous and comfortable. Some decide to move to Taormina, attracted especially by the beauty of the place and the mild climate, often having elegant residences surrounded by gardens built for themselves. The phenomenon finds parallels in other Italian seaside resorts and especially in the Ligurian and Sorrento coasts. In Taormina, the English contribution is decisive, with a large community documented by the Anglican Church of St. George in via Pirandello. In 1907, the famous architect Charles Robert Ashbee built a villa (now a hotel) in the garden adjacent to the Church of San Pancrazio. A strong impulse was given to the creation of gardens that profoundly changed the Taormina landscape. Emblematic is the case of Florence Trevelyan (1852-1907) who, initially settled at the Hotel Timeo and, after marrying the Taorminese Salvatore Cacciola, in the adjacent noble palace of the latter, acquired the agricultural lands of the Bagnoli area, on the slopes of the ancient Theater hill, and, between the last two decades of the nineteenth century and her death, transformed them into the park of her residence, partially expropriated in 1923 and turned into a public garden. Also the "Casa Rossa" or Villa Caronia where, in the first half of the twentieth century, Baron Karl Stempel and his mother Zoe von Kotzebue lived, has a valuable garden, with rare essences, scenically arranged in one of the most panoramic points of Taormina and adjacent to another important private park, that of Villa "La Falconara", built for Alexander Nelson Hood, Viscount of Bridport and Duke of Bronte (descendant of Admiral Horatio Nelson).