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Messina in Sicilia - Peloritani mounts

The mountain chain called the Peloritani, that surrounds Messina, offers beautiful scenery and culminates in the Rocca Salvateste area at the mountain peak of Novara, continues into a small plain at the summit of Monte Scuderi and finally end at the summit of Dinnamare, the nearest city.

There are many different touristic 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 reasons. In every season this itinerary, offers an extrordinary 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 are alternating views of arid mountains, green valleys, rock-filled streams surrounded by Spanish broom, flowered praires, and cultivated fields. There is a view of two seas: the Ionion and the Tirrenean divided by the steap 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 northen 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 and in front, the Tirrenean sea with its dark Eolian Islands. Returning towards the City, the great Aspromonte closes in on this magnificent scenary, while to the South lies the infinite Ionian sea.

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