Patron saint festival
Feast of the Santissimo Crocifisso
📅 Every year, on 14 September
On 14 September Forza d'Agrò celebrates the Santissimo Crocifisso; the village, in the Peloritani mountains, is dominated by its medieval castle.
In the 10th century, a settlement known as Vicum Agrillae took root on this Sicilian ridge, eventually adopting the name Forza d'Agrò during the 14th century. Situated in the Metropolitan City of Messina at 420 metres above sea level, this hilltop village currently counts 878 residents.
Positioned on the lower peak of a mountain, the town looks up toward the ruins of a Norman castle perched on the higher summit. Recognized among the official most beautiful villages in Italy, it forms an integral part of the Agrò Valley region.
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🍝 The flavours of Forza d'Agrò
Arancino fried rice cone stuffed with ragù, pointed like Etna
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo inside a golden cone-shaped crust: in Catania it is masculine and pointed, and the quarrel with Palermo over the name is serious.
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Pitone messinese fried half-moon pastry filled with escarole, tuma cheese and anchovies
A thin sheet of dough folded into a half-moon and fried, with escarole, tuma cheese, anchovies and black pepper inside: Messina’s street food, to eat hot straight from the rosticceria.
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Near Forza d'Agrò
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Forza d'Agrò, but an easy day trip away.
Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.