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After
the earthquake of 1908, Messina was reconstructed in base to a flat
regolator who of it delineated the limits to south in the Gazzi
torrent and north in the Announced torrent, to the west was
constructed one road of panoramic circumvallation until Tower of the
Beacon. The reconstruction of the city has been based on most rigid
the antiseismic norms and the buildings were conceived like
"isolate to you" distant between they that is, with one
rectilinear, wide reticulated practicability from and the parallel.
Beyond to the flat Borzì of 1911, new the slowly regolator approved
of in 1978, operating in the within of a communal territory that to
1981 accommodated something like 260 mila inhabitants, has delineated
the development of the city is linearly, is through a penetration of
driven in digitazioni long goes them to them of the spioventi torrents
from the reliefs that on it are incumbent, until picking up the
smallest inner villages, remained to along isolates cosi to maintain
peculiarity to you of unexpected rural cultures in periurbani
atmospheres. Messina is introduced therefore like a comb from the
extended back along the coastal selvage, until to Pelòro Head, with
short but numerous 'denti' occupants the adjacent areas to the read
places setting torrentizi: Announced - Announced Tree-lined avenue;
Bottoming drills - Via Bottoming drills; Boccetta - Boccetta
Tree-lined avenue; Portalegni - Via Tommaso Cannizzaro; Camaro -
Europe Tree-lined avenue; Gazzi - Gazzi Tree-lined avenue; Saint
inferior Filippo.
Messina,
in spite of the esiguità of the monumental and architectonic assets
saves to you from the sisma of 1908 and from successes to you war
events, its beauty has one today that the drift just from the immanent
presence of the Strait, than is perceived from nearly all the points
of the city, that it finds replies in the same ones toponimi of the
villages, by now integrating part of the city organism, (Gazzi,
Contesse and Tremestieri to south, Paradise, Peace, Ganzirri and Faro
to north) that it is given from the smaglianti tones of its always
blue and limpid sky for the eoliche currents that sweep from the
Strait the coltri of clouds, from its public squares and the wide
tree-lined avenues that they cover from mount to goes them in
substitution of the beds of fiumare, the colorful one to carry out
itself, between the sicilian side and calabra, from the marine traffic
for the several attraversamento with types of floating, and finally
for the perception that is picked to you of an interregional city,
integrated in the range sicilian-calabra, where the plans for
the construction of a Bridge on the Strait are constantly to the scene.
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The city has lengthened and
widened toward north in the perspective of the construction of a Bridge,
this work faraonica is always not only so risky for the characteristics
of a whirling levelling between two seas but, above all, for the
tendency that they have the two banks to get further, from to also
consider the tall sismicità of the zone; this steel monster and cement
it will engrave the urban fabric deeply above, with his/her mighty
massive structure it will break the natural equilibrium defacing and
upsetting a landscape of an unique beauty absolutely... by now the car
it is in motion, impossible to stop her/it... too many affairs gravitate
around this gigantic " cake "... in short, a colossal bluff if the
infrastructures will be crumbling and there are no space for the
illusions if in so many years it is not been never provveduto to resolve
the viabilità of the Salerno-Reggio the ridicule, perennial yard that is
called Highway A3.
View of the Straits of Messina and of the Lake Faro
The Straits
of Messina are three kilometres wide
Messina
for how much rung in its entroterra from the strong attraction
emanated from the hegemonic city functions of Catania and Palermo has,
however, exercised one sure attraction on the other side of the Strait
gaining from that benefit from the economic point of view for several
the needs and consumptions of the aspromontane populations. The
peloritana city is today integrating part of a metropolitan system
that has its development in the conurbazione Messina-Villa S.
Giovanni-Reggio with pre-eminent functions of transit, of pause, of
exchanges and above all of services. The construction of the southern
freeways, finally, has reduced the distances between the part more to
south of the Calabria and the rest of the peninsula. The construction
of the freeway Messina Catania has contributed to knit all the ionic
coast urbanizzata realizing a metropolitan system of the Southeastern
Sicily. Also on Tyrrhenian the freeway it has produced effects of
fusion between agglomerates city with one immense net to you of
intense edificazione of "second houses"; to find that in
this area Barcelona and Milazzo they constitute an only agglomerate of
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NO to Bridge!
Jolly Hotel
Royal Palace
Hotel Liberty
Europa
Palace Hotel
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Mortelle Lido
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The
economy of the province of Messina is merely agricultural
with production of grape, olives, nocciole and, above all,
citruses. Much assets the peach of the fish sword, practiced
in waters of the Strait with said boats " feluche ",
but also of the varieties of blue fish (aguglie and Sardinians),
to the Lago of Ganzirri come today practiced the mitilicoltura
even if in much reduced measure regarding the past. The
industrial field, not a lot developed, has shipyards,
workshops metal worker and mechanics, molitorie, alimentary
and enologiche industries, of the beer, industries chemistries.
The field trades them is that best developed with to that
tourist-hotel one that they concur to strengthen an economy
that denunciation you delay regarding the average national in
for-understood terms of yield, the terziario is what in the
last years it has had a supported increment more.
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St. Martin Avenue
In order to resolve in part the problem of the city traffic, become
more
and more chaotic, after years of jobs that have caused not indifferent
uneasiness to the messinesi, the city has been equipped of a modern
tramway practicability that crosses it from a head to the other. One
metropolitan in surface for faster connections and answering to a city
in continuous expansion towards north, towards the construction of
that "monster of steel and concrete" that will be the Bridge
on the Strait.
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Despite the big professional
and human resources that are lavished daily for the comfort of this
city, from the university to the traffic dock worker and
ferrotranviario, from the tourist and hotel activities to the tertiary
one all, from the commerce to the industrial sector, in the medical and
scientific field, in that cultural and artistic, in the sporting
activities and in the volontariato... despite the profuse energies, this
city, beautiful as poche, viene underestimated by disputable parameters
around the vivibilita as incomplete and/or contemplated only to some
aspects of the social and economic life. |
The
Streetcar in Cairoli Square
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And it could not be otherwise
considering that the facets of an
economic and social system impose a
meticulous analysis; it assists each
other instead to a ballet of figures
in preconceived and arbitrary way
that they go against the collective
affairs of the city with one "classification
of worth" misleading and irritating.
Be put to hazard the credibility of
a whole economic sector of primary
importance for the city qual is that
tourist "these experts newsmen or
pseudo economists" they damage the
firms that undergo an operation
heavily, they mortify the
laboriousness of so many citizens
that... they believe it! Messina
requires certain of a great civic
conscience for the affirmation of
the historical traditions, cultural,
artistic that during the centuries
have done a city of it "big and rich"
as loved to define her/it Cicero,
cradle some most advanced
civilizations, example of power and
efficiency.... here, Messina has
Today to leave again with the pride
of Your past extraordinary, class
political incompetent and muddler
allowing! |
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Republic
Square
For the one who it
arrives with the train,
the first approach
with the city it is had
with the ample one
Plaza of the Republic
to the center of which
is set a modern gushing
fountain |
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Economically remarkable for
the city of Tightens the annual appointment to it with the Sample World
Fair that it is motive for big call for operating Italians and
foreigners. The Fair is visited every year from thousand of tourists
that crowd the standses to the search, above all, of the " novelties "
in the varied commercial sectors, industrial, tourist and of the
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Auditorium
Villa Dante
The Villa Dante, in the
center of the city,
it constitutes a pole of sporting activity,
cultural and recreational. |
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VillaDante
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Saint
Philip Stadium
For how much it concerns
sporting activities
cannot be made mention
the kick to less than.
The city one is gifted of a new plant: the Stadium St. Phillip with a
capacity of around
43.000 places.
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