Messina

Messina ( , ; ) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of 217,033 inhabitants in the city proper and 595,948 in the metropolitan city as of 2025. It is located near the northeast corner of Sicily, at the Strait of Messina and it is an important access terminal to Calabria region, Villa San Giovanni, Reggio Calabria on the mainland.

archipelago

strait between Sicily and Calabria

December 1908 earthquake in Messina, Italy

roman catholic metropolitan archdiocese in Italy

tramway line in Messina, Italy, founded in 2003

Pignolata (Sicilian: pignulata) is a Sicilian pastry originating in the city of Messina. It is a soft pastry, covered in chocolate and lemon-flavoured syrup or icing. This pastry is half covered or iced in one flavouring and the other half in the other flavour, which hardens when the pignolata is ready to be served. Each pastry serves several people, and is meant to be cut into small pieces when served. In Sicily, this dessert was made for Carnival, the last celebration before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.

thumb|right|Example of a Neapolitan augustale, showing a Roman Emperor An augustalis or augustale, also agostaro, was a gold coin minted in the Kingdom of Sicily beginning in 1229 or in 1231 according to others.

astronomical clock in Italy

species of mollusc

Carthaginian general, Messana garrison commander

set of eight idylls composed by Friedrich Nietzsche

port in Sicily, Italy