Patron saint festival In 326 days
Feast of Saint Vincent the martyr
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of September
On the first Sunday of September Tripi celebrates Saint Vincent the martyr, in the village grown beside ancient Abakainon.
On June 10, 2025, regional law number 25 officially renamed the municipality to Tripi-Abakainon following a local referendum. The decision formally reconnected the modern town with Abacaenum, an ancient Sicel settlement whose archaeological remains lie within the municipal borders.
Located in the Metropolitan City of Messina, the town currently counts 933 residents. The ruins of the ancient site stand as its primary historical point of interest.
The Tripi guide
What to see 1
Abacano
What to eat here 3
Arancino · Pasta alla Norma · Pitone messinese
Where to stay 21
21 places to stay · top rated: Scirocco Affittacamere 9.8 · Helikon -la dimora del viandante- 9.7
Events & festivals 1
Next up: Feast of Saint Vincent the martyr, Sunday 5 September
Getting there
Nearest airport: Reggio Calabria, 48 km away
Tours, tickets and experiences
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🎉 Festivals and feasts in Tripi 1
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🍝 The flavours of Tripi
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 Tripi
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Tripi, but an easy day trip away.
Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 200 m Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 2.8 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. viadotto Torrente Sori 📍 Sori · 5.5 km 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Bargagli · 6.0 km Traso's parish church, dedicated to Milan's bishop in Genoese country. chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 5.9 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 6.1 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down