Don Giovanni of Austria, Spanish prince, was prechosen from Devout V as commander of the naval fleet of the Saint Alloy and defeated the Turks in the great battle of Lepanto (7 October 1571) where it came hurt and later on it repaired with its fleet in the Port of Messina where it came applauded liberator. Certainly Don Juan of Austria without the prepared geographical papers for the occasion from Francesco Maurolico would not have gone very distant and the victory achieved hardly by the Crusaders would be concretized each other.

Andrea Calamech, architect and carrarese, follower sculptor of the michelangiolesco Bartolomeo Ammannati, flourishing school of art worked to Messina in the second half of the '500 founding one. Only integral work of the Calamech is today the Monument to Don Juan of Austria (1572).

To the Statue of the condottiero with the sword and the stick of the commando they make reply the three reliefs in bronze where are evokes to you: the order of the two fleets at the moment of the battle, an episode of the crash and the arrival of the Christian fleet in the Port of Messina.