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.Photo: StefanoBarillà, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 220,000 residents
- Description: Italian comune in Sicily
- Neighbors: Villafranca Tirrena
Notable Places in the Area
Messina Centrale railway station
Railway station
Photo: Patrick1977, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Messina Centrale railway station is the main railway station of the Italian city of Messina in Sicily.
Forte Gonzaga
Photo: Simon Praud, Public domain.
Forte Gonzaga, also known as Castel Gonzaga, is a bastioned fort in Messina, Sicily.
Messina Cathedral
Church
Photo: Abxbay, Public domain.
Messina Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Messina, Sicily.
Localities in the Area
Messina
- Categories: commune of Italy, big city, polis and locality
- Location: Messina, Sicily, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.1938° or 38° 11' 38" northLongitude
15.5542° or 15° 33' 15" eastPopulation
220,000Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)IATA airport code
QMEUnited Nations Location Code
IT MSNOpen Location Code
8FCQ5HV3+GMOpenStreetMap ID
node 67253701OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2524170Wikidata ID
Q13666Messina Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Messina, Italië
- Akan: Messina
- Albanian: Mesina
- Albanian: Messina
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Μεσσάνα
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Μεσσήνη
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): ζάγκλον
- Arabic: Messina
- Arabic: مسينة
- Arabic: ميسينا
- Aragonese: Mecina
- Armenian: Մեսինա
- Asturian: Messina
- Azerbaijani: Messina
- Basque: Messina
- Belarusian: Месіна
- Belarusian: Мэсына
- Bengali: মেজিনা
- Bosnian: Messina
- Breton: Messina
- Bulgarian: Месина
- Catalan: Messana
- Catalan: Messina
- Cebuano: Messina (kapital sa lalawigan)
- Cebuano: Messina
- Chechen: Мессина
- Chinese: Messina
- Chinese: 墨西拿
- Chinese: 美西納
- Chinese: 赞克莱
- Chuvash: Мессина
- Corsican: Messina
- Cree: Messina
- Cree: Wikipedia:Archives/Messina
- Croatian: Messina
- Czech: Messina
- Danish: Messina
- Dimli (individual language): Messina
- Dutch: Messina
- Egyptian Arabic: ميسينا
- English: Messana
- English: Missina
- 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
- Kazakh: Мессина
- Korean: 메시나
- Ladin: Messina
- Latin: Messana
- Latin: Zancle
- Latvian: Mesīna
- Ligurian: Mescìnn-a
- Lingua Franca Nova: Messina
- Lithuanian: Mesina
- Lombard: Mesina
- Luxembourgish: Messina
- Macedonian: Месина
- Malay: Messina
- Maltese: Messina
- Marathi: मेसिना
- Min Nan Chinese: Messina
- Mingrelian: მესინა
- Mongolian: Мессина
- Neapolitan: Messina
- Northern Frisian: Messina
- Norwegian: Messina
- Norwegian Bokmål: Messina
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Messina
- Occitan (post 1500): Messina
- Ossetian: Мессинæ
- Persian: مسینا
- Piemontese: Messin-a
- Polish: Mesyna
- Portuguese: Messina
- Quechua: Messina
- Romanian: Messina
- Russian: Занкла
- Russian: Мессина
- 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
Other Places Named Messina
In the Area
Messina is situated close to the neighbourhoods Fondo Basicò and Le Quattro Fontane.
- Fondo PolimeniNeighbourhood
- Torre VittoriaQuarter
- Fondo TornatolaNeighbourhood
- ArcipeschieriNeighbourhood
- Il TironeQuarter
- Fondo SterioNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Messina. Photo: Jeroen P, CC BY 2.0.