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Title: Guide to Italy and Sicily
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macmillan & Co
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Publisher: London, MacMillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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a),Agents, J. it V. Florio. WilsonLine and Johnston Line. A. Ali<£• Figli. Naples to Messina, bi-weekly, in12 hours. Messina to Catania, Syracuse,every Thursday. Messina, upon the straits of thesame name, is one of the oldesttowns in Sicily. Its fortunes havebeen exceedingly chequered. Theviews in the neighbourhood are ofgreat beauty, and the harbour isfine but the town itself is dirty, andthere are few objects of interest.The accommodation is mediocre. History.—Messina was foundedin 732 B.C. by Cumaean pirates,and was at first called Zankle. Inthe 5th century Messenian settlersfrom the Peloponnesus took pos-session of the city and changed itsname to Messina. It was an im-portant place in Roman times, andbore a part in the naval wars ofCsesar and Pompey. In A.D. 843Messina was taken by the Saracens,who were in turn dispossessed by theNormans in 1062. It was the savagebombardment of Messina in 1848by the Neapolitan troops whichgave rise to the nickname of King STRAIT OF MESSINA
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M E JD I TERRA. N E AN SEA Scale ;1 506,880? 5_ Eii^liah Miles 9 5 lO 16 Kilometres London: tfacmoHan A Co.L. .%m/crr//r GrtK^EMa&h.ndm MESSINA 373 Bojiiba, conferred upon Ferdinandof Naples. Messina has two literary-associations of interest. Shake-speare makes it the scene of hischarming comedy Much Ado aboutNothing, and it is said that Goetheconceived the first suggestion forMignous song—Kennst du dasLand, wo die Citronen bliihn—when standing upon the terrace ofthe Church of San Gregorio, whichoverlooks the straits. Messina hasbeen the scene of many battles andsieges, and has been so often de-vastated that there are no import-ant relics of antiquity. Such asexisted were seriously injured orobliterated by the terrible earth-quake of the winter of 1908-9, whichleft the city to a great extent aruin. OBJECTS OF INTEREST.—Theseneed not detain the traveller long,unless he has ample time at dis-posal. A glance at the Cathedral,the views from the Campo Santo orfrom the Monte dei C

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