Ranking as the 37th smallest municipality in Italy by surface area, Merì occupies a compact territory on the edge of the Milazzo plain. Home to 2,396 residents, it is the second-smallest municipality in the Metropolitan City of Messina, sitting roughly 25 kilometres west of the provincial capital.
Bordered by Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and Santa Lucia del Mela, this small Sicilian settlement provides a convenient base near the Tyrrhenian coastline.
Arancino · Pasta alla Norma · Pitone messinese
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Next up: Our Lady of the Annunciation, patron of the town's only parish, Thursday 25 March
Nearest airport: Reggio Calabria, 36 km away
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📅 Every year, on 25 March
Merì celebrates Our Lady of the Annunciation on 25 March, in the church built from 1596 onward, which remains today the town's only parish, administered by the vicariate of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto «San Sebastiano».
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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