Two towns on the Longano stream, united in 1836: Barcellona and Pozzo di Gotto still live as a double city, two cathedrals and two souls stitched by the bridge into the capital of Messina's Tyrrhenian plain. The countryside around is an open-air nursery: ornamental horticulture is the trade that earned the area national fame.
The Jalari park-museum in the hills gathers Sicilian peasant civilisation into a workshop village; the Mandanici theatre is the town stage. From here, Milazzo and the Aeolian ferries are ten minutes away: a convenient base at kind prices.
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