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Choose a Messina walking tour and discover the cultural heritage and the history of Messina Sicily city center: from the medieval churches to the modern style monuments, built after the 1908 earthquake and the bombings of the Second World War, the city has many tourist attractions to offer.
Among the other Messina tours from the port, this 2 hours long Messina walking tour gives you the opportunity to fully appreciate the highlights of the city, enjoying a relaxing and cultural stroll: our tour guide will show you some of the most precious gems of our city, such as the Catalani Church, one of the few elements that we didn’t lose after the earthquake of 1908.
During the tour your tour guide will take you to a pastry shop to taste delicious Sicilian cannoli or granita, to experience typical Sicilian flavors.
Another highlight of the tour will be Piazza Duomo, to visit the medieval Cathedral with its impressive mosaics and many works of art. After attending the Bell Tower show at noon, when all the statues located in the main front of the bell tower move.
To end the Messina walking tour you will visit the outstanding Museum of Puppets Theatre of the Gargano family. Here you will admire part of the priceless collection of Sicilian Puppets that the Gargano family preserves from generation to generation since the earliest years of the XIX century. Stories about the chivalric poems were staged by the puppeteers -the pupari– of the Sicilian Puppet Theater, that emerged in Sicily at the beginning of the XIX century. This art is also inscribed into the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List since 2008.
The Messina walking tour starts from Messina Cruise Port or from Travel Agency Discover Messina Sicily, located in the city center. On request, a departure from your accommodation located in Messina area
We are going to walk in the heart of the city, stopping at the best places to visit, in particular the Catalani Church, one of the most ancient monuments of the city center, that survived the earthquake of 1908. enjoy a tasting of the typical Sicilian granita or Sicilian cannolo at the best bakery in the city center.
A photo stop at the city hall will let you admire the biggest palace ever rebuilt after the earthquake, in neoclassical style, and the wide and scenic square facing the port. Then, a stop in front of the Gallery Vittorio Emanuele will let you take a picture of one of the most beautiful buildings in the historic center, located in Antonello Square.
The Cathedral of Messina is a highlight in the Messina walking tour. You will admire the precious works of art recollected inside, as well as the beautiful marble fountain of Orion outside in the Square. The most famous attraction is the Astronomical Clock of the cathedral of Messina, the biggest and most complex in the world, with its mechanisms in movement every day at 12 p.m. You won’t miss the show!
Visiting the extraordinary collection of the Gargano family you will learn more about the techniques and the tools to realize a puppet. Each puppet is a work of art that would take a long time to be finished. In the Museum, you will see also the exhibition of ancient pictures, and old handwritten scripts with the plays by the ancestors of Gargano family. A true jump back in time!
The tour will end at the starting point. We share a goodbye, hoping to meet our guests back in Sicily soon.
This tour is also available as a private tour for you and your family. Contact us to have more information.
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At the check-out, you can see and decide what you want to pay according to the group size you choose.
At the check-out you will be asked to fill a form with basic info: name, mobile phone number, e-mail, name of the ship ecc. If a discount code is available, this is the moment to use it.
*Please, be sure to share with us a correct phone number because we will use it to share important reminiders and notes for your trip in advance.
You have the option to pay with a deposit of 40% if the total due amount is more than 500€. We will later charge your card for the balance within 15 days to the tour departure.