The construction of the Great Camposanto happened to the action of the Unit of Italy when the Communal Administration of the City incaricò of the plan the great messinese architect Savoja Lion.

The Savoja, for the construction of the work, begun in 1865, chose a hill outside from the inhabited center, a place to the age surrounded from citrus groves and lands cultivate to you. The jobs came completed some years after and 22 March 1872 was the official opening. Four are the incomes of the Cemetary: Greater door, Palmara Door and the Door Palmara II, Door S. Cosimo. Entering from the Greater Door , narcotic cannot be made less than to admire the scenografico effect indeed that offers the colors of the flowers that, it arranges to you with art and with meticulous cure from the giardinieri of the Common one, they compose a design over and under the great Cross, with the emblema of the peace, the coat of arms of the city and the dicitura " Orate For Defunctis ".

Famous illustrious personages find interment in the Cemetary of Messina in the "remained Monumental Gallery" incompiuta for the dead women of Savoja Lion happened in 1885. On the left of the vialetto that it leave from the Greater Door he finds the monument to Stefano Ribera that was poet, combatant journalist and for the freedom. Of forehead to the tomba of the Ribera the monument to the giurista is found Francisco Faranda, lawyer between most illustrious of Italy, collaborator for the compilation of the Italian Criminal code. More ahead there is the tomba of Catalan the Michele man of letters, therefore the monument of the giurista Antonio Fulci and other illustrious personages which Ludovico Large Perroni, Salvatore Pugliatti, Ettore Castronovo, Vann' Antò, Gaetano Martino and many others. In the first one vialetto of right, always leaving from the Greater Door, the tomba is arranged of Emanuele Pancaldo, carbonaro, faithful to the ideas of the Mazzini, elect deputy to the First National Parliament to Turin. Still on the vialetto of right we find the monument to Tommaso Cannizzaro, poet and writer, therefore, of forehead to the tomba of the Sardinian is tomba of Edoardo Giacomo Boner the poet and novel writer, died under the ruins of the earthquake of 1908. These two tree-lined avenues, than dipartono from the Greater Door, are rejoined with the feet of the monument to Savoja Lion.

Splendid columns, capitelli, logge and monuments testify the extraordinary beauty of the "Monumental Gallery", here, under the arched ones, admire monuments in honor of Happy Bisazza , Giuseppe Farina and Giuseppe Born them. To the flat earth of the Gallery the mortal rests them of other illustrious personages are found, remember between this Riccardo Mitchell, Vincenzo D' Amore and Antonio Catara Lattieri. Close to these three personages the monument to Giuseppe Seguenza, Travelling Lombardic Luigi, Michelangelo Bottari, Peter Inzoli and Gregorio Zappalà. In top to the hill the Cenobio is found where there are several monuments, to the center, a vialetto it leads to the Church to right of which it notices the monument to Saro Zagari, messinese scultore and architect. Numerous they are, moreover, the gentilizie Nails head that are found in front of the Monumental Gallery. To remember also the much Confraternite present in the Great Camposanto.