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Messina

Messina is a port in the northeast corner of . Most visitors are passing through, on the 5-km ferry-crossing to mainland Italy. Although it dates to ancient times, Messina is modern and nondescript.
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  • Type: City with 217,000 residents
  • Description: Italian comune in Sicily
  • Also known as: “Messana” and “Missina”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Messina Centrale railway station and Forte Gonzaga.

Railway station
Photo: Patrick1977, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the main railway station of the Italian city of Messina in . As , and it is one of the most important stations of its region.

Photo: Simon Praud, Public domain.
, also known as Castel Gonzaga, is a bastioned fort in Messina, . It was built in the mid-16th century, and it remained in use by the military until 1973. Today, the fort is in good condition.

Church
Photo: Abxbay, Public domain.
is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Messina, . Formerly the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Messina, it became in 1986 the archiepiscopal seat of the Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Filippo Superiore and Catarratti.

Village
Photo: Michele Careno, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village.

Suburb
Photo: Seralfed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Messina

Latitude
38.1938° or 38° 11′ 38″ north
Longitude
15.5542° or 15° 33′ 15″ east
Population
217,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
QME
United Nations Location Code
IT MSN
Open location code
8FCQ5HV3+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 67253701
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2524170
Wiki­data ID
Q13666
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Messina” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Messina, Italië”
  • Albanian: “Mesina”
  • Albanian: “Messina”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “ζάγκλον”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μεσσάνα”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μεσσήνη”
  • Arabic: “مسينة”
  • Arabic: “ميسينا”
  • Aragonese: “Mecina”
  • Armenian: “Մեսինա”
  • Asturian: “Messina”
  • Azerbaijani: “Messina”
  • Basque: “Messina”
  • Belarusian: “Месіна”
  • Belarusian: “Мэсына”
  • Bengali: “মেসসিনা”
  • Bosnian: “Messina”
  • Breton: “Messina”
  • Bulgarian: “Месина”
  • Catalan: “Messana”
  • Catalan: “Messina”
  • Cebuano: “Messina”
  • Central Kurdish: “مێسینا”
  • Chechen: “Мессина”
  • Chinese: “Messina”
  • Chinese: “美西納”
  • Chinese: “赞克莱”
  • Chinese: “墨西拿”
  • Chuvash: “Мессина”
  • Corsican: “Messina”
  • Cree: “Messina”
  • Croatian: “Messina”
  • Czech: “Messina”
  • Danish: “Messina”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Messina”
  • Dutch: “Messina”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميسينا”
  • Esperanto: “Mesino”
  • Esperanto: “Messina”
  • Estonian: “Messina”
  • Finnish: “Messina”
  • French: “Messina”
  • French: “Messine”
  • Friulian: “Messine”
  • Galician: “Messina”
  • Georgian: “მესინა”
  • German: “Messana”
  • German: “Messina”
  • German: “Zancle”
  • German: “Zankle”
  • Greek: “Μεσσήνη”
  • Greek: “Μεσσίνα”
  • Gujarati: “મેસિના”
  • Hebrew: “מסינה”
  • Hindi: “मेसिना”
  • Hungarian: “Messina”
  • Icelandic: “Messina”
  • Ido: “Messina”
  • Inari Sami: “Messina”
  • Indonesian: “Messina”
  • Interlingua: “Messina”
  • Interlingue: “Messina”
  • Irish: “Messina”
  • Italian: “Messina”
  • Japanese: “メッシーナ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಸ್ಸಿನಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಸ್ಸೀನ”
  • Kazakh: “Мессина”
  • Kirghiz: “Мессина”
  • Korean: “메시나”
  • Kotava: “Messina”
  • Kurdish: “Messina”
  • Ladin: “Messina”
  • Latin: “Messana”
  • Latin: “Zancle”
  • Latvian: “Mesīna”
  • Ligurian: “Mescìnn-a”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Messina”
  • Lithuanian: “Mesina”
  • Lombard: “Mesina”
  • Luxembourgish: “Messina”
  • Macedonian: “Месина”
  • Malagasy: “Messina”
  • Malay: “Messina”
  • Maltese: “Messina”
  • Marathi: “मेसिना”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Messina”
  • Mingrelian: “მესინა”
  • Mongolian: “Мессина”
  • Neapolitan: “Messina”
  • Northern Frisian: “Messina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Messina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Messina”
  • Norwegian: “Messina”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Messina”
  • Ossetian: “Мессинæ”
  • Persian: “مسینا”
  • Piemontese: “Messin-a”
  • Polish: “Mesyna”
  • Portuguese: “Messina”
  • Quechua: “Messina”
  • Romanian: “Messina”
  • Russian: “Занкла”
  • Russian: “Мессина”
  • Rusyn: “Мессіна”
  • Sanskrit: “मेसिना”
  • Sardinian: “Messina”
  • Scots: “Messina”
  • Serbian: “Месина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Messina”
  • Sicilian: “Messina”
  • Sicilian: “Missina”
  • Silesian: “Messina”
  • Sinhala: “මෙසීනා”
  • Slovak: “Messina”
  • Slovenian: “Messina”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مسینا”
  • Spanish: “Mesina”
  • Spanish: “Messina”
  • Swahili: “Messina”
  • Swedish: “Messina”
  • Swiss German: “Messina”
  • Tagalog: “Mesina”
  • Tagalog: “Messina”
  • Tajik: “Мессина”
  • Talysh: “Messina”
  • Tamil: “மெஸீனா”
  • Tatar: “Мессина”
  • Telugu: “మెసీనా”
  • Tetum: “Messina”
  • Thai: “เมสซีนา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Messina”
  • Turkish: “Messina”
  • Turkmen: “Messina”
  • Twi: “Messina”
  • Ukrainian: “Мессіна”
  • Urdu: “میسینا”
  • Uzbek: “Messina”
  • Venetian: “Mesina”
  • Vietnamese: “Messina”
  • Volapük: “Messina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Messina”
  • Welsh: “Messina”
  • Western Panjabi: “میسینا”
  • Wu Chinese: “墨西拿”
  • Xhosa: “Messina”
  • Yue Chinese: “墨西拿”
  • “Messina”
  • “Messine”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Messina”. Photo: Jeroen P, CC BY 2.0.