Milazzo Attractions
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Events
Passion play on Good Friday, festival of San Francesco di Paola (2nd Sunday after Easter), festival of Sant'Antonio di Padova (June 13th).
Location
Milazzo, a port and seaside resort, is situated on a narrow tongue of land jutting far out into the sea, at the western end of the Golfo di Milazzo.
History
Greeks from Zancle (Messina) founded the town of Mylai in 716 B.C. on the site of an old Sikel settlement. In 426 B.C. the Athenians, and in 315 B.C. the troops of Agathocles of Syracuse, took the town. The Romans gained their first sea victory near Mylai by defeating the Carthaginian fleet in 216 B.C. In the Middle Ages the Norman kings built a castle which was later altered by the Emperor Frederick II and extended by the Spanish in the 15th and 16th centuries. In more recent times the town had an important role to play when in 1860 Garibaldi defeated the Bourbon troops who had taken up positions in the castle.
Today Milazzo is a lively port and fishing town with an oil refinery and chemical industry.
Passion play on Good Friday, festival of San Francesco di Paola (2nd Sunday after Easter), festival of Sant'Antonio di Padova (June 13th).
Location
Milazzo, a port and seaside resort, is situated on a narrow tongue of land jutting far out into the sea, at the western end of the Golfo di Milazzo.
History
Greeks from Zancle (Messina) founded the town of Mylai in 716 B.C. on the site of an old Sikel settlement. In 426 B.C. the Athenians, and in 315 B.C. the troops of Agathocles of Syracuse, took the town. The Romans gained their first sea victory near Mylai by defeating the Carthaginian fleet in 216 B.C. In the Middle Ages the Norman kings built a castle which was later altered by the Emperor Frederick II and extended by the Spanish in the 15th and 16th centuries. In more recent times the town had an important role to play when in 1860 Garibaldi defeated the Bourbon troops who had taken up positions in the castle.
Today Milazzo is a lively port and fishing town with an oil refinery and chemical industry.
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