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" The White Lotus ", a riveting television series that captivated audiences with its intriguing storyline and stellar cast, is not only known for its gripping narrative but also for its breathtaking filming locations. One such destination that played a crucial role in the series is the picturesque island of Sicily which every year attracts hundreds and hundreds of tourists around the world. In this article, we will explore the stunning locations in Sicily where " The White Lotus " was filmed, immersing ourselves in the beauty that served as the backdrop for the drama that unfolded on screen.

The first of them all is naturally Palermo , the capital city of our splendid Sicily , which served as the primary filming location for " The White Lotus ." The city's grand architecture, historic landmarks, and vibrant atmosphere provided the perfect setting for the luxurious resort showcased in the series. Viewers were treated to sweeping shots of Palermo 's charming streets, bustling markets, and opulent palaces, creating a visual spectacle that added depth to the show's narrative.

Also, nestled in the heart of Sicily, Villa Cattolica is a historic mansion that played a pivotal role in "The White Lotus." With its timeless architecture and lush gardens, the villa provided a lavish and intimate setting for key scenes in the series. The juxtaposition of the historic villa against the modern struggles of the characters created a visually compelling contrast.

A highlight of the Sicilian filming locations is the inclusion of the Aeolian Islands . These volcanic islands, including the iconic Stromboli , offered a striking natural backdrop to the unfolding drama. The raw beauty of the landscapes, coupled with the series' intense narrative, showcased the power of nature as a silent yet influential character in the story.

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HBO’s White Lotus , set at the fictional White Lotus resort chain, is a mainstay every awards season. The hit television show follows hotel employees, their super-wealthy guests, and everyone’s overlapping desires—resulting in existential dread or extramarital affairs at the very least, murder at the very most.

As of March 2024, we’re still one year away from the release of the third season, set in Thailand . Want your White Lotus fix now? Rewatching season 2? Sit back and relax with the ultimate White Lotus -inspired itinerary to nine days in Sicily.

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Day 1-2: Palermo

After landing in Palermo, the island’s buzzing, vibrant capital, get the lay of the land at Quattro Canti, or the “Four Corners,” a beautiful Baroque landmark at the main crossroads of Palermo’s old town. Tanya, played by the beloved Jennifer Coolidge, sees Madame Butterfly at Teatro Massimo nearby, but doesn’t visit much else of the city. What a shame!

You’ll stroll through Piazza Pretoria and the red-domed Church of San Cataldo, before walking south to Mercato di Ballarò for a deep dive into Palermo’s famous street food. Spend the afternoon in the fascinating Palazzo dei Normanni before finding a nearby wine bar for an aperitivo and enjoying dinner at a tucked-away trattoria.

Begin your second day with breakfast at the oldest coffee roaster in Palermo, Casa Stagnitta, then stop in Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio church to see its Byzantine mosaics. In the afternoon, choose a museum, like the Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palermo, to explore, or peruse the treasures of Mercato delle Pulci to find a unique souvenir. In the early evening, join in the typically Sicilian passeggiata along the waterfront Foro Italico, heading to Mercato Vucciria just as its alleyways start to bustle with young people drinking, dancing, and snacking on Palermitan street food delicacies.

Day 3: West from Palermo

Rent a car and make the 20-minute drive from Palermo’s city center to the stunning Cattedrale di Monreale, a can’t-miss UNESCO World Heritage Site, built in the 12th century, when Sicily was under Norman rule. Continue driving west into the Monreale DOC winemaking region, where you can schedule tastings at wineries like Alessandro di Camporeale or Tenuta Sallier de La Tour. Spend the evening in seaside Castellammare del Golfo.

Day 4: Southwestern Coast

In the morning, drive inland from Castellammare del Golfo to the Temple of Segesta, and spend a few hours at the picturesque ruins. Afterward, keep heading south along the coast for about two hours to the dramatic, terraced limestone beach of Scala dei Turchi, a great place to dig your toes in the sand and meditate on all the history this part of Sicily represents. Make your way to Agrigento, a 20-minute drive from the beach, for dinner and a much-needed night’s sleep.

Day 5: Valle dei Templi

The next day, make a beeline for the dramatic ruins of the ancient Greek city of Akragas, known as Valle dei Templi. Among the remains of seven impressive temples spread out over 3,000 acres (1,200 ha), the Temple of Concordia is the best preserved. Be sure to stop by the Giardino della Kolymbetra, built to supply the city of Akragas with water, still a fertile garden to this day. In the afternoon, drive two hours across the island to reach Catania, on Sicily’s eastern coast.

Day 6: Catania

For your day in Catania, wake up your senses at the Pescheria di Catania seafood market, not far from the town’s Piazza del Duomo and impressive Cattedrale di Sant’Agata. Admire the basalt architecture of this city built in Mount Etna’s shadow, strolling past ancient Roman sites including a theater and thermal baths, to Villa Bellini, surrounded by many excellent cafés and bars, to get a pastry or aperitivo.

Day 7: Taormina

Much of White Lotus season 2 is filmed in the cliffside city of Taormina at the San Domenico Palace , a Four Seasons hotel. Wander along and off Corso Umberto in the historic center, popping into its shops, boutiques, and cafés; take a cable car to Isola Bella; and don’t miss Teatro Antico di Taormina, the ancient Greek theater carved into Monte Tauro. Head back to Catania for the evening.

Day 8: Mount Etna

Take an excursion to Mount Etna today, an hour’s drive north of Catania. Depending on your tastes, you can hike to the volcanic crater from the Etna Sud visitor center, or sample some volcanic vino at one of the many wineries on the volcano’s slopes—exactly as Harper, Ethan, Cameron, and Daphne do on their day trip to the vineyard. Return to Catania for your final night.

Day 9: Journey Home

For most, heading home will mean a flight through Naples or Rome, but the adventurous may want to travel to mainland Italy by a train that gets loaded onto the ferry. As you leave, reflect back on your trip…

You saw some of the most iconic sights—and accomplished a good deal more than White Lotus characters who never left their resort! What did you think of your time in Sicily? And, more importantly, when will you be going back?

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Maria Shriver gushes over Patrick Schwarzenegger being cast in ‘White Lotus’

The newest season of “The White Lotus” just welcomed some new faces, and Maria Shriver is one proud mama because of it.

Patrick Schwarzenegger, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola and Aimee Lou Wood will be joining the cast of the Emmy-winning drama for its third season, TODAY.com confirmed Jan. 17.

Sharing an announcement on Instagram , the former TODAY anchor congratulated her son, Schwarzenegger, for being cast in one of her “favorite shows of all time.”

“Patrick, Patrick, Patrick! I’m so proud of you!” Shriver began her post, naming Schwarzenegger’s recent achievements like getting engaged and recently becoming the face of Emporio Armani . “Wow!!! All that hard work and determination is really paying off.”

After encouraging him to promote some of her brands and work, Shriver continued, “I can’t wait to visit you on set ( am I allowed to visit you on set?) and can’t wait to get all the spoilers from you (you will tell me, right? I am your mother after all!) Wow, wow, wow! See you at the White Lotus!”

Shriver then added the hashtag, “#proudmomalert.”

Earlier this month, HBO announced that Parker Posey, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Leslie Bibb and Carrie Coon will also be part of the Season Three cast, as well as Natasha Rothwell, who played spa manager Belinda Lindsey in Season One.

Season Two of the hit series had viewers gasping , theorizing , dissecting fashion and dreaming of Sicily, all while trying to solve which character winds up dead .

Creator Mike White told Entertainment Weekly in November, nearly a year after the Season Two finale of “The White Lotus” aired , that viewers can expect Season Three to be even “crazier.”

“It’s going to be a supersized ‘White Lotus,’” White said. “It’s going to be longer, bigger, crazier. I don’t know what people will think, but I am super excited, so at least for my own barometer, that’s a good thing. ... I’m super excited about the content of the season.”

Rothwell backed up the hype, revealing during an interview with Vanity Fair in December that she “gasped” while reading the scripts.

“I gasped out loud a minimum of five times, and this was just me reading them,” Rothwell said. “The scripts are a testament to Mike’s skill and ability to tell the most smart and entertaining stories. I mean, everything that he does is like a lesson to me as an actor and a performer. And as a writer myself, he takes folks on a journey. Everyone needs to buckle up, because it’s going to get real!”

“The White Lotus” first premiered in July 2021 and has won multiple Emmys, including one for outstanding limited series.

Here’s everything we know about “The White Lotus” Season Three.

Who will be in the cast of Season Three of 'The White Lotus'?

The show's third season will feature both Hollywood vets and newcomers.

This month, the following actors have been named as members of the Season Three cast: Parker Posey, Leslie Bibb, Dom Hetrakul, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Tayme Thapthimthong, Carrie Coon, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola and Aimee Lou Wood.

Deadline reported on Jan. 22 that Francesca Corney, Nicholas Duvernay and Arnas Fedaravičius had also joined the cast.

TODAY.com confirmed in April 2023 that Natasha Rothwell will also return.

Fans of the show know that its cast changes every season — with the exception of Jennifer Coolidge, who played the wealthy and somewhat stunted Tanya McQuoid, and Jon Gries, who played Tanya's husband, Greg Hunt, in Season One and Season Two.

After Tanya’s stunning demise , it seemed unlikely Coolidge would return, though she said during Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series that she wished creator White isn't done with Greg’s character arc.

“My hope for (co-star) Jon (Gries) is that he’s not finished with Greg,” Coolidge said. “I hope there’s some comeuppance for evil Greg. I think he should, I don’t know, end up in a meat-grinding machine.”

In her speech after winning the Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a drama series for her performance as Tanya, Coolidge said White called her character “definitely dead.”

In a final reference to the show, Coolidge also thanked “all the evil gays” for her Emmy win.

Rothwell's return as Belinda continues the anthology series’ subtle pattern of bringing back one   familiar face amid an all-new cast each season.

White had told Entertainment Weekly  he was open to cast members returning for Season Three — and beyond.

“It would be easy to just be full-on anthology, but I think it’s more fun to have little threads through the show,” said White. “If the show goes on for a couple of seasons, it would be fun to have an all-star season.”

Where will Season Three take place?

Certain things about "The White Lotus" are not expected to change — starting with the format. Each season takes place in a different White Lotus luxury resort located around the world, and begins with the discovery of a dead body.

When Meghann Fahy’s character, Daphne, mentioned in the Season Two finale that she wanted to vacation in the Maldives, fans speculated that the show would be set in the island nation next.

The first season was in Hawaii; the second, Sicily. And the third will be filmed in Thailand, as announced Jan. 5.

The show’s first two seasons were shot at Four Seasons resorts in Hawaii and Italy. Production on Season Three will begin in February in and around Koh Samui, Phuket and Bangkok “and will follow a new group of guests at another White Lotus property,” HBO said.

The Thailand news comes after White teased a continental change for the third season.

“The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” White said in an  interview with HBO  that aired right after the Season Two finale. “I think the third season would be maybe a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.”

White also hinted at pivoting to a country in Asia during a red carpet interview with Deadline in October 2022.

“We just turned in our last episode to the network, so it’s hard to think about the next race,” White said. “But if we did, I think it’d be fun to maybe go to a whole different continent. We did Europe. Maybe Asia ... would be fun.”

When will Season Three premiere?

The new season likely won't be premiering until 2025.

HBO and Max chairman/CEO Casey Bloys told reporters at a press event on Nov. 2 that the writers and actors strikes impacted production schedules, including for “The White Lotus.”

“‘White Lotus’ Season Three probably would have been in play for 2024, it’s 2025,” Bloys said, according to Variety .

With a year until the next season, viewers can always rewatch Seasons One and Two on Max.

The plot isn't known — but this part will stay

Not much information is out yet about the third season, beyond White’s teaser about taking a “satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality.”

White told Entertainment Weekly in September 2022 that he might return to his original idea he'd pitched for Season Two, which had to do with politics and power.

“I might still do it down the road maybe, if they give us a third season,” White said.

After visiting Sicily, White decided to change the plot to fit the “vibe” of the country.

“The kind of mythology of Sicily, at least from the point of view of Americans, is the archetypal sexual politics and role play that you associate with, like, opera and the mafia and Italian romance. I felt like it should be more focused on men and women and relationships and adultery and have an operatic feel to it, so I pivoted,” White said.

Anna Kaplan is a news and trending reporter for TODAY.com.

Jordan Greene is an editorial intern at TODAY.com. She is currently studying magazine journalism, political science and religion at Syracuse University. Previously, she interned at the Forward, Punch Magazine in the San Francisco Bay Area and Minute Media. She loves adventuring to new places and watching the sunset at the beach. Follow her on Twitter here .

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The White Lotus Season 2: All the Easter Eggs You May Have Missed

“A little mystery…it’s kind of sexy,” Meghann Fahy ’s Daphne says in the season two finale of HBO’s The White Lotus , which recently wrapped its Sicily-set sophomore season (and has been renewed for a third ). Secrets are like currency here; when a group of wealthy travelers check into their swanky new digs, it’s unknown just how many of them will get to check out. Along with a group of new vacationers, Jennifer Coolidge reprises her first-season role, opening the door for references to the Emmy-winning first installment.

But there are other cameos and callbacks to find in Mike White ’s anthology series , including appearances by his Survivor tribe mates, clues in the opening credits , and, of course, Daphne and Tanya’s superior reading selection (“I did get the new Vanity Fair —you can read it”). Ahead, a breakdown of all the Easter eggs scattered throughout the series’ second season.

Episode 7: Arrivederci  

When all was said and done, it was an Easter egg from  last  season of  The White Lotus  that sealed  Tanya’s tragic fate . “In the end of last season, Tanya is sitting with Greg in the last episode and he’s talking about his health issues and she says, ‘I’ve had every kind of treatment over the years, death is the last immersive experience I haven’t tried,’ and I was thinking, it’d be so fun to bring Tanya back because she’s such a great character, but maybe that’s the journey for her, the journey to death,” White said in the post-finale interview. “Not that I really wanted to kill Tanya because I love her as a character and obviously love Jennifer, but we’re going to Italy, she’s such a diva, a larger-than-life female archetype, it felt maybe we could devise our own operatic conclusion to her life and story.”

Another red herring that proved to be correct was Tanya’s choice of dress. In the third episode, Portia ( Haley Lu Richardson ) joins Albie ( Adam DiMarco ), Dominic ( Michael Imperioli ), and Bert ( F. Murray Abraham ) on a sightseeing tour of  The Godfather  filming locations. At one point, they sit at the home where Michael Corleone’s wife Apollonia is blown up in a car. They graze only feet away from a replica of that deadly scene, where an Apollonia mannequin wears a floral dress. As many  pointed out on Twitter , in the final episodes Tanya wears the exact same floral frock and in episode six Portia is shown wearing a  Godfather tee shirt depicting the exact moment of the explosion. The season’s ending—hidden in plain sight. 

An unofficial character in  The White Lotus  is the Testa di Moro, those eerie porcelain busts placed in each room of the Sicily location. During the first episode, Rocco ( Federico Ferrante ) explains that as legend goes, “a Moor came here a long time ago and seduced a local girl. But then she found out that he had a wife and children back home. So because he lied to her, she cut his head off.” Or, as Daphne so succinctly summarized: “It’s a warning to husbands, babe. Screw around and you’ll end up in the garden.”

The statue is ever-present in several scenes of the show, but perhaps most prominently in Harper ( Aubrey Plaza ) and Ethan’s ( Will Sharpe ) room. As his distrust of his wife's fidelity escalates in later episodes, the presence of the statue and what it represents increasingly plagues Ethan. When Harper and Ethan put aside their fears and decide to  finally  consummate this vacation in the finale, the intensity of their passion leads them to break the bust—(temporarily) bashing insecurities about infidelity. 

Episode 6: Abductions

At one point in the penultimate episode, Tanya says she’s become so disillusioned with her marriage that she’s inquired with her divorce lawyer about getting an annulment. The name of Tanya’s attorney is  Billy Offer , who as reported by  The Wrap is the real-life son of  Robert Offer —creator Mike White’s entertainment lawyer. 

“Robert Offer has been my lawyer for over 25 years and I have known Billy since he was a toddler,” White told the outlet in an email. “A perk of writing a TV series is giving shout outs to people I love and respect!” In a separate statement, Robert Offer said: “It’s fun to hear our son’s name mentioned in the episode because we love the show and we love Mike.”

With only one episode left of the second season, questions remained about who will die, how the killings might go down, and just what Quentin ( Tom Hollander ) is up to with our dear Tanya. After last week’s installment, in which he spoke about falling in love with a straight cowboy back in Montana decades earlier, Tanya finds a framed photo of Quentin and another man wearing cowboy hats. And, as  Twitter was quick to point out , the unnamed man looks an awful lot like Tanya’s missing husband Greg (played by the returning  Jon Gries ). If so, Quentin may be setting Tanya up with a “notoriously well-hung” Italian man so that she is unfaithful, thus voiding the pesky prenuptial agreement Greg was complaining about episodes earlier. 

Episode 5: That’s Amore

In the most direct reference to  The White Lotus ’s first season, Tanya makes a nod to her flaky past. “Do you think I’m oblivious?” she asks her weary assistant Portia. Before answering her own question: “Sometimes I think I should’ve started that spa for poor women with that girl from Maui because she was like a real healer, the real deal.” But just as that thought enters her orbit, it’s gone again just as quickly—an impending trip to Palermo taking the forefront. 

Speaking of which…nothing but bad vibes are coming from Quentin’s palatial estate. While there, he describes Tanya as “tragic” then invites her as his date to a production of  Madama Butterfly . The heroine in that opera meets a similar end as her father, who killed himself, just as Tanya’s did. Between that shocking ending and Quentin’s “nephew” Jack ( Leo Woodall ) conveniently forgetting his wallet, there’s mounting evidence to suggest that both Tanya and Portia are getting grifted. Cameron ( Theo James ) may have offered an easter egg on this episode earlier,  suggesting that Italians often have glorious palazzos, but “no cash.”

The most perplexing mystery of the fifth episode is what Daphne meant  exactly  when she suggested Harper “get a trainer.” Her pro-tip follows news that her husband may have been unfaithful while on their trip. Instead of reacting in horror or asking any follow-ups, Daphne talks about her trainer Lawrence, who has “blonde hair” and “big blue eyes.” She then offers to show Harper a picture of her trainer, but instead displays a photo of her two children, one of whom is very much blonde and blue-eyed. “That’s a picture of your kids,” Harper says, to which Daphne replies: “Is it? Whoopsie!” Social media has  since been divided about whether Daphne was using her children to urge Harper out of her marital business  or  subtly suggest she have an affair. A shot of Cameron angrily flossing his teeth while his eldest child awaits his presence on FaceTime has led some to believe he knows that the kid may not be biologically his. 

Episode 4: In the Sandbox

Just as  Murray Bartlett ’s Armand was enamored by his employee Dillon ( Lukas Gage ) last season,  Sabrina Impacciatore ’s Valentina harbors a crush on her subordinate, Isabella ( Eleonora Romandini ). In the fourth episode, Valentina gifts Isabella a starfish pin from her favorite store. The resort manager’s choice may mean more than meets the eye—starfish are  thought to represent infinite divine love. Also worth pondering: Daphne wears a swimsuit covered in multicolored starfish during the season’s opening scene. 

Episode 3: Bull Elephants

With each episode, more context is provided about how Tanya married Greg after their unlikely season 1 meet-cute. When the pair first met in Maui, Greg’s ominous cough suggested his days were numbered. But that affliction is gone by season two.

Episode three reveals that Tanya (and her generous cashflow) played a large role in Greg’s clean bill of health. “You’ve done a lot for me. You found those doctors. I’m gonna live now because of you,” he tells her. But Greg, who we learn has been married four times, isn’t as appreciative as Tanya would prefer. “Ever since you found out you were gonna have a lot more years, I just feel like you realized you were gonna be stuck living them with me,” she cries before offering to cancel their prenup. (Tanya used a similar tactic in the first season, using her financial position to keep Natasha Rothwell ’s spa manager character Belinda close.)

The third episode contains a few notable film references, including Albie’s prescient observation that “men love The Godfather because they feel emasculated by modern society.” But the more subtle shoutout is a shot-by-shot recreation of a scene in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film L’Avventura .

At one point, Harper can be seen surrounded by “horny dudes” while on the steps of the Noto Cathedral, just as the film’s star Monica Vitti ( see more below ) was similarly flanked onscreen. White told Variety that the tribute happened spontaneously when cinematographer Xavier Grobet realized that they were filming in the same location as the movie. Parallels between the two projects were not lost on White. “ L’Avventura is about the desperate search for the meaning of life as much as the actual disappeared woman,” he said of the film’s central plot. “Obviously, White Lotus touches on the malaise of wealthy people and that kind of search for meaning when you’re just lounging by an infinity pool.”

Episode 2: Italian Dream

In the show’s second episode, Tanya tells Greg about her dreams of emulating Italian movie star Monica Vitti, complete with a Vespa ride and sunset meal of “pasta with giant clams.” Greg makes Tanya’s vision a reality, but only to soften the blow that he’s leaving their getaway early for a work trip to Denver. However, it appears that Greg is lying to Tanya, as he can be heard whispering on the phone later in the evening: “Yeah, she’s clueless as usual. I’ll be home tomorrow.”

Some have noted that Tanya and Greg’s relationship may soon have parallels to Vitti’s breakout film, L’Avventura , which centers on a man who leaves his lover for her best friend after she complains about his lengthy business trips. Greg’s clandestine phone call was even reportedly filmed on the same terrace that Vitti stands on at the end of L’Avventura.

Episode 1: Ciao

The season’s first Easter egg comes in the premiere’s opening moments. At the tail-end of her getaway, Daphne boasts about the resort’s amenities to a pair of newly arrived vacationers. They are played by none other than Angelina Keeley and Kara Kay , who both competed against creator Mike White on 2018’s Survivor: David vs. Goliath . Fahy told Entertainment Weekly that as a newfound Survivor fan she was “fangirling” over working with them.

“Pretty early on we knew there was American Woman No. 1 and American Woman No. 2. He kept saying ‘opening scene’; I was like, Maybe we’re in the background, waving, drinking some cocktails ,” Kay told Vulture of the appearance. “Then we got a draft of the script and realized, oh we have lines, we’re going to say something. We’re going to be acting.”

Keeley, who was four months pregnant at the time of filming, fully committed to her cameo. After Daphne discovers bodies floating in the nearby water, Keeley said she turned in an emotional performance from the shore. “I was wiping a fake tear away like I was at a funeral. Mike came up like, ‘Angelina, this is why you’re perfect for reality TV. You’re so over the top,” she told the outlet. “Less grief, more shock.”

Of course, with the return of Tanya to The White Lotus , there’s a veiled reference to her stay at the resort’s Hawaii location, where she met her now-husband Greg. “Whenever I stay at a White Lotus, I always have a memorable time—always,” Tanya says upon entering Sicily. She also touts her “Blossom circle” status with the hotel, as she apparently worked her way up from being a mere “petal.” And in the second episode, Greg alludes to Tanya’s ability to “just discard people” as she did to Belinda in season 1. 

There’s one more sneaky cameo in the season 2 premiere—that of Laura Dern , who can angrily voices the character of Dominic’s estranged wife during a tenuous phone call. Vulture confirmed the uncredited performance, which reunites Dern and White after their previous collaboration including 2007’s Year of the Dog and HBO’s Enlightened , a series that ended in 2013 after two seasons. In the season finale, however, a family photo appears to show a woman who is decidedly not Dern as the matriarch. 

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White Lotus's Locations in Taormina and Noto, Sicily

Exploring the allure of sicilian filming locations.

Published: June 2023

In the highly acclaimed second season of the HBO series, White Lotus, Taormina and nearby Noto shine as remarkable filming locations that add to the allure of the show. As you delve into the wonders of Taormina, make it a point to visit the captivating sites that served as stunning backdrops for the series. This article takes you on a journey through Taormina and Noto, unveiling the must-see filming locations featured in White Lotus. Immerse yourself in the charm, history, and breathtaking landscapes of these Sicilian gems as you step into the world of the series.

• Piazza IX Aprile: A Timeless Beauty Piazza IX Aprile, a central square in Taormina, was a focal point in White Lotus. In Episode 1, the square's stunning architecture and vibrant atmosphere drew the attention of the filmmakers. This picturesque square offers breathtaking views of the surrounding landscape, including the iconic Mount Etna and the azure waters of the Ionian Sea. Its charming cafes and lively ambiance make it a must-visit spot. As you stroll along the square, capture the essence of the place that captured the attention of White Lotus filmmakers.
• Noto Cathedral: A Baroque Masterpiece In Episode 3 of White Lotus, the historic town of Noto and its impressive Noto Cathedral took center stage. This UNESCO World Heritage site boasts splendid Baroque architecture, showcasing intricate details, imposing columns, and a grand facade. Step inside the Noto Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of San Nicolò, and marvel at its beauty. Appreciate the rich history and artistic heritage that make it a remarkable setting in the series.
• Taormina's Charm: Beyond White Lotus While exploring Taormina, don't miss the opportunity to visit other notable locations that embody the city's charm. Visit the ancient Greek Theater, featured in Episode 4 of White Lotus, and be awed by its stunning acoustics and panoramic views. The enchanting Giardini della Villa Comunale, a public garden overlooking the sea, is another must-see spot. Additionally, take a stroll along Corso Umberto, Taormina's main street lined with shops, cafes, and vibrant energy.
• Explore Noto's Treasures: Extend your adventure to Noto and discover more of its treasures beyond the Noto Cathedral. Explore the streets adorned with beautiful Baroque buildings, such as Palazzo Ducezio and Palazzo Nicolaci di Villadorata. Taste the local delicacies, including the renowned almond-based pastries and gelato, which will delight your senses. Noto's charm and cultural heritage go beyond its on-screen appearances.

As you wander through Taormina and explore the nearby town of Noto, you'll have the opportunity to witness firsthand the captivating allure that attracted the creators of White Lotus. Immerse yourself in the charming atmosphere, soak up the stunning views, and let the magic of these locations transport you into the world of the series. 

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'The White Lotus' star Natasha Rothwell was used to playing the funny sidekick. So she wrote herself a starring role.

• Natasha Rothwell gained acclaim on HBO's "Insecure" and season one of "The White Lotus."
• Her new Hulu show, "How to Die Alone," weaves hard-won lessons from her personal life into the story.
• Rothwell spoke to BI about growing in her personal life in tandem with her career, and what it means to be "enough."

The most painful scene for Natasha Rothwell to write in her new Hulu series "How to Die Alone" was the most personal one. Fresh out of the hospital after a near-death accident, Rothwell's single and anxious airport worker Mel is realizing the pitfalls of listing herself as her own emergency contact during an actual emergency. Now, she's distraught, lonely, and rethinking her life while drinking alone at a bar.

"The truth is, I want to be seen. I want to be loved, you know what I'm saying?" she tells the bartender through tears. "I just want someone to love me, even though I can't."

The monologue doubles as a thesis statement for Rothwell's long-gestating new series, which took seven years to get off the ground after it was originally developed under her deal at HBO. The show follows Mel's vulnerable, messy journey to learn to love herself and make sense of her life with or without a partner. It's a struggle Rothwell herself knows intimately, which is why the scene was so emotional to shoot.

"I was just tapping into the raw feeling of longing and feeling stuck and feeling that you are on the brink of being better than who you are, but not knowing how to push forward and not feeling worthy of love," Rothwell tells BI. "It was important for me to have [Mel] say those things out loud, because I think it kind of takes the power out of it."

"How to Die Alone" represents a step forward in both Rothwell's personal and professional development. The 43-year-old has lived many lives since leaving drama school: She taught high-school drama in the Bronx, and English for a year in Japan. An audition for "SNL" led to her getting hired as a writer, though she lasted only one season.

Writing and stealing scenes on Issa Rae's "Insecure" ultimately helped her feel the opposite — she won a Peabody Award and the 2022 NAACP Image Award for her performance as Kelli Prenny — giving her confidence to play a more vulnerable, serious role on season one of HBO's "The White Lotus." (She's set to reprise the character in the hotly anticipated third season , which just wrapped filming in Thailand.)

And now, finally, Rothwell is in a starring role — one she wrote herself, that weaves hard-won lessons from her personal life into her character's story. Centering someone who looks like her in "How to Die Alone" was vital to Rothwell's own healing.

"Representation was a huge part in my inability to believe that I could be the hero of my own story, I could be the lead in the rom com of my life, because according to film and television, I'm the sidekick. I'm supposed to help a white protagonist get theirs and you know very little about me," Rothwell tells BI.

"It's been the thrill of a lifetime to be able to play a character that is nuanced and contains multitudes and is allowed to be a mess," she adds. "I think more representation in that area is needed."

Below, Rothwell speaks to Marissa Evans about the themes of "How to Die Alone," from how she processes loneliness to how she deepens her friendships.

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"How to Die Alone" is, obviously, about loneliness. How has your definition of loneliness and aloneness changed since writing and wrapping the show?

I'm the type of person that recharges when I'm by myself. So being literally alone with no one with me is not a scary place for me. But growing up being a child of TV and movies, I was educated by media to not think that that was enough, because I needed a man to make it make sense. It made me resent being literally alone and by myself and feel like I was not supposed to be living a full life until I was in a romantic partnership.

Thank God for therapy — 20-plus years and counting — that's when I realized the real boogeyman that I should have been afraid of is loneliness, and the antidote to loneliness is vulnerability and really connecting with people. That can be hard, and it's also the most rewarding part of the human experience. My relationship to loneliness has changed dramatically now that the show is being promoted and out in the world, because I'm connecting with more people than I ever have in my life on the topic.

What do you feel keeps Black women from having these conversations about loneliness?

I think there are a myriad of reasons, because oftentimes we're thought of as these, you know, burden bearers. We're the strong ones, we have Black girl magic, and that doesn't really jive with introspection and talks and conversations about loneliness when we're out there with our magic wands. And so I think oftentimes, we're not really given the platform to express this softer, vulnerable side to who we are.

In writing the show and thinking about your own journey, and the legion of Black women fans who adore you, what do you think keeps Black women from loving themselves?

I think that so much of what I believed was possible for me was directly born out of the media I consume in film and television, and I never saw a fat Black woman. And I'm talking early, early rom coms. We've definitely had some plus-size leads since, but I just didn't see that in the Nancy Meyers or the Nora Ephron movies. When you don't see yourself on screen in those positions, you start to question whether or not you're allowed to have those things.

That was a huge part in how I personally was running with a parachute in terms of loving myself and trying to figure out what I was worthy of. It's all of that insidious subconscious racism that just permeates our systems that tells us that we are not enough.

Seeing that amplified with Kamala right now, and just the vitriol that's being brought out of people, it's a wonder that any Black woman has had the courage to unapologetically love themselves, and I think that is what makes us so special and beautiful, and it makes me so proud to be a Black woman. When you see a Black woman loving herself unapologetically, it's a radical act of defiance, because systems have told us that we don't deserve to feel that way, and we aren't entitled to that.

What is the biggest difference in how you are navigating loneliness now?

Back then, I resented it, because I thought that it was a negative that I should, and I say that with quotes, "be partnered." Being alone was indicative of some moral failing. Now, I fucking relish it. My alone time is everything, and I take pride in the fact that I have created boundaries in my life so that I can have my alone time unapologetically.

It's night and day, compared to when I started out on my healing journey, to now, because I am so at peace. I'm so happy, I'm fulfilled, and a romantic relationship has to be an additive to that. I think before I was operating from a deficit, because I didn't think what I had was enough. And so it was a real reckoning of understanding what enough was and that I am enough, and that's just a really powerful evolution that I'm still on.

What does being enough look like to you?

From the perspective of a writer, it's when you press print, it's done, and you are left with a couple options. You can look at what you've written, ridicule it, and talk shit about it, or you can marvel on the fact that you've created something beautiful.

To put that in terms of just my own human existence, when it's pencils down, it's not saying that, "Oh, I'd be enough if…" and you fill in the blank. It's just, let's put a period on the end of that sentence. If this is me, if this is my life, and this is how it was going to look for forever, which is just me and my dog at home, I can't resent or not appreciate the beauty that's inherent in those circumstances. I think that that was a real turning point for me.

The antidote to loneliness is connecting with people. Has the show changed your idea of friendship? Has it made you a better friend?

I don't have the same friend group I used to have. It changes over time and I think that's a good thing, because a lot of times the change is beneficial for all parties involved, because their growth necessitates stepping away from me and my growth necessitates stepping away from them.

As I've gotten older — and I am a recovering people pleaser — I also realized that friendship is not being apologetic about what you need and not being afraid to ask for what you need. I spent the better part of my 20s being this need-less wonder. My friends had me as their friend, but I didn't really have any friends. I didn't want to ask anything from anyone. So I think friendship continued from that point to evolve into this healed version of myself where I want to be able to ask for what I need, and not be ashamed to experience that level of intimate reciprocity in a platonic friendship.

How do you deepen trust in your friendships?

It requires vulnerability, which is risky. There's no foolproof method on how to deepen relationships and have intimacy in your close friendships without testing the waters by trusting and building trust over time. People do have to prove themselves to you, and the only way that they can do that is if you give them an opportunity.

I spent so much of my life just completely terrified of that risk, and so it's much safer for folks to not try and to not put themselves out there. I think that is one option for sure, but I think life is less rich and there's less joy that you have access to if you don't allow yourself to risk being vulnerable.

This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

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A self-proclaimed Air Force brat, Natasha Rothwell knows travel. She’s moved around her entire life, and once spent a year doing comedy in Tokyo. Today, she’s a fan of traveling solo . “[It’s] a product of not waiting to live my life for a partner,” she tells Bustle. “Travel and being in transit are just... in me.”

Lately, her expertise has lent itself to playing characters behind the scenes of the travel industry. She received an Emmy nod for playing spa manager Belinda on The White Lotus , a role she’ll reprise in Season 3 next year. And this month, she stars as Mel, a JFK cart driver who has never taken a flight, on How to Die Alone , out Sept. 13.

“Centering marginalized voices is what I’ve been put on the planet to do,” Rothwell says. “And making sure I give a voice to those folks who get us to and from where we’re going in life.”

In the new Hulu series, which Rothwell created and showruns, Mel survives a near-death run-in and resolves to transform her life to be seen, loved, and promoted, all while facing her fear of flying in time to attend her ex’s wedding in Hawaii.

“It’s much more substantive to tell a story that’s real,” Rothwell, 43, says. “Where it’s just like, I want to change. But I don’t know how. Audiences can root for her as she tries to figure it out because that’s what we’re all doing at the end of the day.”

After a decade in the entertainment industry, Rothwell — who runs her own production company, Big Hattie Productions — points to several key steps that prepared her for How to Die Alone , including teaching high school theater in the Bronx and getting a “front-row seat” to Issa Rae’s work on Insecure , in which she played Kelli and made her directorial debut.

“I just feel really grateful that life led me to this moment, and I was able to meet the challenge,” she says. “It was hard, but I loved it.”

Below, Rothwell breaks down How to Die Alone ’s rom-com lineage and the viral TikTok saga she’s bringing to TV.

You’ve said that you love the “running through the airport” rom-com cliche, and How to Die Alone grounds that trope by making JFK the workplace.

Yeah, it’s one of those hallmarks of rom-coms. It was really fun to play with those tropes. Even having the documentary-style opening to the show is a nod to When Harry Met Sally... Although they were all actors [in the movie], and I lived a large part of my life thinking they were real people. They were actors.

Whoa, OK! I did not know that, either.

I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but I was devastated. They have, like, IMDb pages.

I was thinking that movie might have inspired you! So, are your interviews real?

These are 100% real New Yorkers. We had a documentary camera crew out there, and we talked to them about life, love, and loneliness. It was a way to let folks enter into each episode with that authenticity and understanding that every single person in New York — in the world — has a story. They’re not just the person driving you to the gate at the airport, doing your pedicure, delivering your mail. They have lives, wishes, hopes, and fears. I had to fight for that piece in the show. It was controversial.

What was the pushback?

You’ve seen the series. There’s so much that’s unconventional, and I don’t subscribe to precedent. I can’t tell you the number of meetings where I was like, “Precedent is based on cishet white males, and that’s not me. We can’t use precedent when we’re dealing with a different version of storyteller.” So, I was really excited that they ultimately saw its value.

Were there any other unexpected challenges?

I wouldn’t recommend shooting a show in Toronto during the winter. It introduced me to the myriad of electronic bodywear to keep you warm. For me, it was also a challenge to let it go. I’m a recovering perfectionist — thank you, therapy. I have to acknowledge it and walk away. It was hard because I loved every aspect of creating the show.

What was it like getting the call to return to The White Lotus for Season 3?

It wasn’t even on my vision board. I was so grateful for Season 1, and I watched Season 2 along with everyone else. I screamed when Tanya fell off the boat . So when [ The White Lotus creator Mike White] reached out to me about bringing Belinda back, I told him what I told him in Season 1: “I will follow you to the ends of the earth. I’ll be there.”

It was also just announced that you’ll be adapting Reesa Teesa’s “Who TF Did I Marry” saga from TikTok. How are you planning to approach that?

Her series was probably one of the most radical acts of vulnerability I’ve ever seen. On top of that, she’s an incredible storyteller. I f*ck heavy with people who talk about their sh*t and know how to talk about their sh*t. So it was a real delight for Big Hattie Productions to get it.

People can expect what I feel is typical of the projects that I’m drawn to. There’ll be gravity and levity, just like her story when she tells it. She is one of the strongest people that I know. Nuanced and complex and honest, she’s all of those things.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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At that level, travel is less about getting to know a place than in finding an outfitter willing to bend over backward to satisfy your preconceived notions of what that place might be. Is your fantasy of Italy to dress up like Italian actress Monica Vitti and putter around on a Vespa — like insecure Tanya (played to the max by Jennifer Coolidge )? Just talk to the concierge.

Before covering art and design, I worked for several years as a travel writer of little distinction, producing several guidebooks for Lonely Planet and short dispatches for outlets such as Travel + Leisure and Budget Travel. It was work for which I was terrifically ill-suited. (“Travel writing” is a misnomer. It should be called “hotel writing,” because what the industry generally wants is an amanuensis who can churn out seductive copy about high thread-count sheets and Italianate bathroom fixtures.)

What those years in the field did bestow on me, however — besides a colorful story about riding a cow truck over Costa Rica’s so-called Mountain of Death — is a front-row seat to the theater of vacation travel. And what “The White Lotus” gets right is that tourism is theater, the ultimate immersive experience in which everyone and everything has a role to play.

‘The White Lotus’ satirizes privilege. But it has the same blind spots as its guests

“The White Lotus” ably mocks the wealthy patrons of a tropical resort. Its knives would have been even sharper if it had spent more time on the staff.

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Functioning as stage is the locale — which the travel industry set-designs into a hyper-quaint version of itself for the purpose of tourist appeal. Hawaii is smiling hula dancers and outrigger canoes. Italy is a paradise of Roman ruins, picturesque hillsides and Aperol spritzes. Luxury resorts, with their enviable real estate and tasteful symphonies of muted tones, offer a safe space of predictability from which to dip a toe into the local. Whale watching is at noon, the sunset cruise at 6.

Cultural critic Lucy Lippard describes the phenomenon in her 1999 book, “ On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place ,” which explores how popular locales are represented. “Across the United States, towns devastated by capital flight, technological shifts, or union-busting make spectacles of themselves desperately framing and reinventing their histories to make the picture appealing to those who might buy a hamburger, T-shirt, suntan lotion, Indian jewelry, a plastic sea gull, a shell ashtray, or a boat ride.”

If you’re one of the extravagant guests of “The White Lotus,” instead of an ashtray you might arrange to spend the night at the 16th century neoclassical palazzo where Wagner composed part of “Parsifal.”

This hyperbolic manufacturing of place can manifest in absurd ways. I once covered an Orlando hotel whose design featured miniature versions of famous Florida sights on the grounds, including a fake Everglades swamp stocked with real alligators.

Hyperbole, however, can overwrite reality. In Costa Rica , where I’ve done a lot of reporting, the set on offer is tropical nature and pura vida vibes. The country is regularly billed as one of the happiest places on Earth, based on studies that purport to rank national contentedness. This is touted all over travel brochures, adventure company websites and a massive banner I once saw hanging over the courtyard of a San Jose hostel — as if happiness were an amenity as attainable as a hot breakfast. It’s a narrative so firmly entrenched in the lore that New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof once wrote an entire piece about how happy Costa Ricans are after hiking around the rainforest and seeing a sloth.

All of it enforces the trope of the happy native. It also elides the fact that the travel industry has helped turn Costa Rica into an international hub of sex tourism , with such attendant side effects as human trafficking . A U.S. expat once summarized the country’s appeal to me over a beer and a stuffed ashtray: “It’s all about fishing and f—ing.”

Tourism as destructive force is an integral part of the first season of “The White Lotus.” The resort isn’t simply an unobtrusive window into balmy paradise. It is also occupying Native land.

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Onto these stages, enter the actors — both the travelers and the workers tasked with tending to them.

As my colleague Lorraine Ali pointed out in her review of the show, “The White Lotus” does a far better job managing the storylines around the resort’s guests than it does with the staff members who must serve them. In both seasons, resort workers appear and disappear, their lives reduced to broad archetypes unworthy of true resolution. And the second season wastes the talents of Impacciatore as the tough Valentina, a sexually frustrated woman who takes out her anger on everyone around her — until she comes to terms with her lesbian desires in the arms of a kindly prostitute. (It’s every Hollywood trope about women rolled into a single cringe subplot.)

But if there’s something “The White Lotus” — the first season, especially — has gotten right, it’s the ways in which staff members are expected to perform for their guests. That might mean literal performance, as when Kai, the Native Hawaiian employee from Season 1, is relegated to dancing for guests on the land that once belonged to his family. Or it might mean, as Armond articulated at the outset, behaving like a pleasingly generic extra.

The travel industry contrives all manner of ways to objectify the locals for the benefit of tourists on a quest for the extraordinary or the “authentic.” In Belize, I once wrote about a hotel on a private island where I was greeted on a boat dock by smiling staff members all decked out in matching pith helmets — so colonial! On assignment in Peru, I once visited a high-end textiles boutique geared to tourists whose centerpiece was an Indigenous woman in traditional dress weaving on a strap loom. It felt like the worst sort of 19th century museum display.

A friend who ran a horse packing outfit in Colorado, where he led excursions into the Rocky Mountains, used to get decked out in cowboy duds to provide his clients with postcard color. His normal ensembles of jeans and baseball caps didn’t cut it as “authentic” — even if that’s what he wore when he went riding on his own.

“We see travel as escape, getting away, going somewhere ‘else,’” writes Lippard, “often inhabited by ‘others’ whose dissimilarities will be exaggerated and exoticized.”

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The protagonist in this stage play, of course, is the traveler. “The White Lotus” has its dramas down pat: the spoiled rich kid who threatens to call the manager (Shane in Season 1) or the fussy woman who turns each journey into a happiness quest (Tanya over both seasons).

In my time in the travel mill, I’ve watched an angry American demand a blow dryer at a remote rainforest lodge that didn’t have electricity and a Canadian grow irritated by the meager menu on the floating islands of Lake Titicaca. (It’s not just Americans who are ugly abroad.)

The thing about travel is that many people approach it as something that will offer transformation. As Lippard writes in the opening chapter to her book: “The structure of tourism resembles all ritual behavior — a beginning, a change, and a return to normal.”

That can happen, but it’s not guaranteed. And it depends as much on the open-mindedness of the traveler as on the magic embedded in any given location. One of the unspoken rules of the tourism story — one so perfectly captured by “The White Lotus” — is that you can’t get away from yourself. Wherever you go, there you are.

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