The advantages of natural port of Messina and strategic location of the city have been appreciated since antiquity. The settlement was conquered, ruled and destroyed in turn by the Greeks, the Carthaginians, the Mamertine, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, French, Spaniards and Italians. More devastating than the destruction caused by earthquakes, wars were: no other Italian city did not suffer so much from them.
In the Strait of Messina, between the tip "boot" (Peninsula Italy) and Sicily,..... more details about Messina
