Active marble quarries near Frazzanò keep alive an extraction craft that sets this small Sicilian settlement apart. Located in the Metropolitan City of Messina, the municipality is home to 755 residents.
Positioned roughly 88 kilometres west of Messina and 140 kilometres east of Palermo, the town shares borders with neighboring communities such as Capri Leone, Longi, and San Marco d'Alunzio.
Arancino · Pasta alla Norma · Pitone messinese
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Next up: Saint Lawrence of Frazzanò, the saint born in the town that bears his name, Tuesday 10 August
Nearest airport: Catania Fontanarossa, 73 km away
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📅 Every year, from 8 to 10 August
Frazzanò celebrates its fellow townsman Saint Lawrence from 8 to 10 August; according to an old legend, the bells of the ancient church of San Nicolò di Bari rang by themselves when the saint was born in the town, around 1120.
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.
Read more →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.
Read more →Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Outside Frazzanò, but an easy day trip away.
