Salina is an island of the Aeolian Islands (Italian: Aeolian Islands, Sicily: Ìsuli Eoli) north of Sicily, southern Italy. It is the second largest island of the archipelago.
Salina is divided between three municipalities: Santa Marina, on the east coast, Malfa, to the north, and Leni to the southwest. From Leni towards the sea is the village of Rinella, the municipality of Santa Maria di Salina is located on the east coast and has about 900 inhabitants. Particular is the use of the spoken language because in addition to Italian, the Sicilian is spoken. The island was the naturael theater for several films and today is the headquarters of the Salina DocFest, an international festival of narrative documentary.

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.