For the 2017 cruise season, Port of Messina is expecting 147 calls carrying 383,157 passengers
AIDA Cruises’ AIDAaura (1 call), MSC Cruises’ MSC Meraviglia (23 calls), Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Spirit (16 calls), Princess Cruises’ Majestic Princess (2 calls) and Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ Seven Seas explorer (1 call) are all first time callers to the port.
The port of Milazzo is expecting 15 calls and 5,254 passengers. Of the ships calling, CroisiEurope’s La Belle de l’Adriatique, and Phoenix Reisen’s Artania and Amadea are maiden callers.
Driving along the highway and the coastal road, passengers will reach Santa Teresa, the largest town between Messina and Taormina. From there a picturesque road runs inland to Savoca, a village in a saddle between two hills. Its scenic beauty and historical-artistic heritage makes Savoca, one of the most attractive places in the environs of Taormina.
At the entrance of the village there is the ‘Bar Vitelli’, which has a collection of local artisans’ tools and photographs taken when Francis Ford Coppola shot some scenes of ‘The Godfather’.
After a short stop at ‘Bar Vitelli’, passengers start walking along the village’s main street which climbs the hill, with several Churches of 15th and 16th centuries (Chiesa Madre, Santa Lucia, San Michele), ruins of a Norman castle and a magnificent view of the Sicilian coast-line, Strait of Messina, Italian mainland and villages perched on the surroundings hills.
Port of Messina has recently completed the design of its new terminal.
