Messina
The Metropolitan City of Messina is an administrative division in Sicily, Italy and is the closest to the Italian mainland. For all visitors to Sicily who have made the journey across the entire boot of Italy to Calabria and crossed the Strait of Messina, the…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Messina and Stromboli.
Messina
Messina is a port in the northeast corner of Sicily. 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.
Stromboli
Stromboli is a small Italian volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea just north of Sicily. It is one of the Aeolian Islands. Stromboli is little more than just the 900-m-high volcano and has an area of 12.6 km².
Taormina
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Taormina is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy. Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century.
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Aeolian Islands
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The Aeolian islands, aka Lipari Islands, are a group of attractive islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea about 25-50 km north of Sicily in Italy. This diverse group of volcanic islands used to be off the beaten track, but they are becoming more popular and can be very busy during July and August.
Milazzo
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Milazzo is on the north coast of Sicily, Italy, 20km west of Messina. Is it a small town, mainly used as a transit point for the Aeolian Islands.
Giardini Naxos
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Giardini Naxos is a town in the Messina Province of Sicily. It lies on the east coast midway between Messina to the north and Catania to the south. Just above it is the mountain town of Taormina.
Novara di Sicilia
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Novara di Sicilia is a town in the Province of Messina in the Sicily region of Italy. The village of Novara di Sicilia, nestled in the mountains overlooking ancient Tyndaris and Abacaenum, is the archetype of a typical medieval town, with its friendly and accommodating people who speak a distinctive dialect.
Villafranca Tirrena
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Villafranca Tirrena is in the province of Messina on the island of Sicily, Italy. It is 22 km across the Straits of Messina to the region of Calabria. The municipality of Villafranca Tirrena contains the frazioni Serro, Divieto, Castelluccio, Castello, and Calvaruso.
Messina
- Type: former province of Italy with 627,000 residents
- Description: province of Italy
- Also known as: “Messina province”, “Province of Messina”, “provincia di Messina”, and “Provincia Regionale di Messina”
- Neighbors: Catania, Enna, and Palermo
- Location: Sicily, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Messina” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Mesina”
- Albanian: “Provinca e Mesinës”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة مسينة”
- Aragonese: “Provincia de Mecina”
- Armenian: “Մեսսինա”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Messina”
- Azerbaijani: “Messina əyaləti”
- Basque: “Messinako probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Месіна (правінцыя)”
- Belarusian: “Месіна”
- Belarusian: “Мэсіна”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Месіна”
- Bengali: “মেজিনা”
- Bosnian: “Mesina”
- Breton: “proviñs Messina”
- Breton: “Proviñs Messina”
- Bulgarian: “Месина”
- Catalan: “Província de Messina”
- Cebuano: “Messina”
- Chinese: “Messina Séng”
- Chinese: “墨西拿”
- Chinese: “墨西拿省”
- Croatian: “Messina”
- Czech: “Provincie Messina”
- Danish: “Messina”
- Danish: “Province of Messina”
- Dutch: “Messina”
- Esperanto: “Metropola urbo Mesino”
- Esperanto: “Provinco de Mesino”
- Estonian: “Messina provints”
- Finnish: “Messinan maakunta”
- French: “Messine”
- French: “province de Messine”
- French: “Province de Messine”
- Galician: “Provincia de Messina”
- Georgian: “მესინა”
- Georgian: “მესინის პროვინცია”
- German: “IT-ME”
- German: “Messina”
- German: “Provinz Messina”
- Greek: “Επαρχία της Μεσσίνα”
- Greek: “Μεσσίνα”
- Gujarati: “મેસિના”
- Hebrew: “מסינה”
- Hindi: “मेसिना”
- Hindi: “मैसिना प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Messina megye”
- Icelandic: “Messina”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Messina”
- Interlingua: “provincia Messina”
- Irish: “Cúige Messina”
- Italian: “Città Metropolitana di Messina”
- Italian: “Messina”
- Italian: “provincia di Messina”
- Italian: “Provincia di Messina”
- Italian: “Provincia regionale di Messina”
- Japanese: “メッシーナ県”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Messina”
- Kannada: “ಮೆಸ್ಸಿನಾ”
- Kazakh: “Мессина провинциясы”
- Kazakh: “Мессина”
- Korean: “메시나 현”
- Korean: “메시나도”
- Korean: “메시나현”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Mesina”
- Latin: “Provincia Messanensis”
- Latin: “Provincia Regionalis Messanensis”
- Latvian: “Mesīna”
- Latvian: “Mesīnas province”
- Lithuanian: “Mesinos provincija”
- Lombard: “Provincia de Messina”
- Lombard: “Pruvincia de Messina”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Messina”
- Macedonian: “Месина”
- Malay: “Provinsi Messina”
- Malay: “Wilayah Messina”
- Maltese: “Provinċja ta‘ Messina”
- Maltese: “Provinċja ta’ Messina”
- Marathi: “मेसिना प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Messina Séng”
- Mongolian: “Мессина”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Provinsen Messina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Messina-provinsen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Messina”
- Norwegian: “Provinsen Messina”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Messina”
- Persian: “استان مسینا”
- Piemontese: “Provincia ëd Messin-a”
- Polish: “Prowincja Mesyna”
- Portuguese: “Messina”
- Romanian: “Provincia Messina”
- Russian: “Мессина”
- Sardinian: “Provìntzia de Messina”
- Scots: “Province o Messina”
- Serbian: “Месина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Messina”
- Sicilian: “Missina”
- Sicilian: “pruvincia di Missina”
- Sicilian: “Pruvincia di Missina”
- Sicilian: “pruvincia riggiunali di Missina”
- Sinhala: “මෙසිනා”
- Slovenian: “Messina”
- Slovenian: “Pokrajina Messina”
- South Azerbaijani: “مسینا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Mesina”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Mesina”
- Swedish: “Messina”
- Tagalog: “Messina”
- Tajik: “Мессина”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Мессина”
- Tamil: “மெஸீனா”
- Tamil: “மெஸ்ஸினா மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “మెసీనా రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Telugu: “మెసీనా”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเมสซีนา”
- Tibetan: “མེ་སི་ན།”
- Turkish: “Messina ili”
- Turkish: “Messina”
- Turkmen: “Messina welaýaty”
- Ukrainian: “Мессіна”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Мессіна”
- Urdu: “صوبہ میسینا”
- Uzbek: “Messina”
- Venetian: “Provincia de Mesina”
- Venetian: “Sità metropułitana de Mesina”
- Vietnamese: “Messina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Messina”
- Welsh: “Talaith Messina”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع مسینا”
- Wu Chinese: “墨西拿省”
- Yue Chinese: “墨西拿省”
- “Provinge de Messina”
- “Provinge de Messine”
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