Through a crumbling brick archway of Taormina's ancient Greek theatre — remodelled by the Romans in the 2nd century AD, then half-destroyed when a Baroque church rose among the ruins — Mt Etna floats snow-capped and serene above the Sicilian landscape in this luminous chrome-era colour photograph, the San Domenico Palace Hotel glowing terracotta in the middle distance. Jeannine (writing from her Italian holiday in the summer of 1969) addressed this card to friends at 44 Holly Place, Larchmont, New York, signing off with "Souvenirs de Vacances — Amitiés" in a confident French hand — a Francophone traveller enchanted by Sicily's layered antiquity. The card was published by SAF Milano and printed by P. Marzari S.R.L. of Schio (Vicenza), one of Italy's leading postcard printers of the 1960s–70s. It was posted from Taormina on 17 March 1969 bearing a 40-lire Italian stamp (Michelangelo series, used on Italian definitives of that era), the Taormina (ME) machine cancel clearly struck.