Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Messina, Italy

The church of the Santissima Annunziata is a church in Messina, in Camaro Inferiore, which has its origins in the eighteenth century. Damaged by the earthquake of 28 December 1908, it was replaced by a church-shack on the opposite bank of the Camaro stream. Rebuilt in the thirties, not far from its original site, it consists of three naves and is completely in Romanesque style. Inside it is possible to admire the canvas of the Annunciation by the famous painter Adolfo Romano dating back to 1919, four frontals in Baroque style, two eighteenth-century statues depicting the Virgin of Sorrows and St. Louis, some sacred vases dating back to the seventeenth-eighteenth century and various liturgical furnishings in gilded wood including a chair, in the main apse, of the eighteenth century.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata (Camaro Inferiore) (IT)

The Orto Botanico "Pietro Castelli" dell'Università di Messina, also known as the Orto botanico di Messina, is a botanical garden operated by the University of Messina and located at Piazza 20 Settembre, Messina, Sicily, Italy.

Wikipedia: Orto Botanico "Pietro Castelli" dell'Università di Messina (EN)

The sanctuary of the Madonna di Montalto is located in Messina. Primitive church of Montalto or church of Santa Maria dell'Alto and monastery of the Cistercian Order on the hill of Caperrina.

Wikipedia: Santuario della Madonna di Montalto (IT)

Forte Castellaccio is an abandoned hilltop fortress in Messina, Sicily built by Juan de Vega, Viceroy of Sicily around the middle of the 16th Century as part of a defensive project ordered by Emperor Charles V of Habsburg. It was designed by the Italian military architect Antonio Ferramolino. It was damaged by the 1908 Messina earthquake before being briefly reused as a 'colony for boys' in the 1940s. Despite several attempts to renovate the site since, it has remained abandoned and considered locally to be haunted by the ghosts of orphans and by the apparition of a nun.

Wikipedia: Forte Castellaccio (Messina) (EN)