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 Messina: Peloritani Mounts
The mountain chain called the Peloritani, that surrounds Messina, offers beautiful
scenery and a ridge from which two seas may be seen, and culminates in the
Rocca Salvateste area at the mountain peak of Novara and continues into a
small plain at the summit of Monte Scuderi and finally end at the summit
of Dinnamare, the nearest city.
A pleasant and inexpensive excursion
 There are many
different itineraries on the Peloritani. One of the most inexpensive
and breathtaking excursions, which can be done little by little or without
stops is easily accessible by a two hour bus trip that leaves from the city and
begins in "Masse".
The visibility
from the bus is better than from a car for obvious season, the bus being talker
then a car. I every season this itinerary, offers an extraordinary scenery. In
springtime, the citrus trees may even still have fruit on them as well as
flowers that inebriate with their delicate scent called "zagara" or the orange
flower.
There is an
alternating of arid mountains, green valleys, rock-filled streams surrounded by
Spanish broon, flowered prairies, cultivated fields and noisy tweeds. There is a
view of two seas: the Ionio and the Tirrenean divided by the steep mountain
ridge of the Peloritani.
Towards the South, past Dinnamare, if one takes a road
not to far off the main road of Castanea, the snowy peaks of Etna can be
seen , at the extreme northern point, there is a lighthouse that faces the
strait of Messina, and directly at its side, as if two lucid eyes tie the two
lakes, the Faro and the Ganzirri.
From the
hilltops, to the west has Capo Milazzo while in front the Tirrenean sea with its
dark Aeolian Islands. Returning towards the City, the great Aspromonte closes in
on this magnificent scenery, while to the South lies the infinite Ionic sea.
Courtesy of
Azienda Autonoma di Soggiorno e Turismo Messina
(c) 1997-2008 E. Massetti
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