Choose a Messina walking tour and discover the cultural heritage and the history of Messina Sicily city center: from the medieval churches to the modern style monuments, built after the 1908 earthquake and the bombings of the Second World War, the city has many tourist attractions to offer.

Among the other Messina tours from the port, this 2 hours long Messina walking tour gives you the opportunity to fully appreciate the highlights of the city, enjoying a relaxing and cultural stroll: our tour guide will show you some of the most precious gems of our city, such as the Catalani Church, one of the few elements that we didn’t lose after the earthquake of 1908.

During the tour your tour guide will take you to a pastry shop to taste delicious Sicilian cannoli or granita, to experience typical Sicilian flavors.

Another highlight of the tour will be Piazza Duomo, to visit the medieval Cathedral with its impressive mosaics and many works of art. After attending the Bell Tower show at noon, when all the statues located in the main front of the bell tower move.

To end the Messina walking tour you will visit the outstanding Museum of Puppets Theatre of the Gargano family. Here you will admire part of the priceless collection of Sicilian Puppets that the Gargano family preserves from generation to generation since the earliest years of the XIX century. Stories about the chivalric poems were staged by the puppeteers -the pupari– of the Sicilian Puppet Theater, that emerged in Sicily at the beginning of the XIX century. This art is also inscribed into the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List since 2008.