Positioned 22 kilometres from Messina in eastern Sicily, the municipality of Itala is home to 1,663 residents. Its territory borders the neighbouring districts of Alì, Alì Terme, Fiumedinisi, Scaletta Zanclea, and Messina.
The town's twentieth-century history includes a period of administrative merger: suppressed as a municipality in 1928, it was absorbed into Scaletta Zanclea before regaining its autonomy in 1947.
Arancino · Pasta alla Norma · Pitone messinese
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Next up: The Madonna della Lettera, patroness of a town founded by Count Roger, Thursday 3 June
Nearest airport: Reggio Calabria, 20 km away
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📅 Every year, on 3 June
Itala celebrates the Madonna della Lettera on 3 June; its church of Saints Peter and Paul, a significant example of 11th-century Arab-Norman architecture, is documented in an 1093 donation act by Count Roger to the first abbot, Gerasimo.
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.
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