Lipari
Info on Lipari
Lipari is an island of Italy belonging to the archipelago of the Aeolian Islands, in Sicily.
It is part of the municipality of Lipari along with the other Aeolian islands, except the island of Salina, whose territory is divided into the three municipalities of Santa Marina Salina, Malfa and Leni. In antiquity it was already known with the name Lipara in ancient Greek, which means fat, unctuous, and by extension bright, rich and fertile). Also in ancient times, it was called Milogonide or Meligunide (Milogonis or Meligunis.
Messina
How to reach the port of Messina
Messina is an Italian town of 234 570 inhabitants capital of the homonymous metropolitan city in Sicily, as well as thirteenth Italian municipality and third largest city of the most populous region of Italy.
It rises near the extreme north-eastern tip of Sicily (Capo Peloro) on the Strait that bears its name. Its port, ferry port for the Continent, is the first in Italy for number of passengers in transit and tenth for cruise traffic.
Founded as a Greek colony with the name of Zancle and then Messana, Messina reached the peak of its greatness between the late Middle Ages and the mid-seventeenth century, when it contended in Palermo the role of Sicilian capital.
Rebuilt from 1912, the modern city presents itself with a neat and regularles and trailers.
