Messina Centrale is the main railway station of the Italian city of Messina, in Sicily

Sicily

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. As Palermo Centrale

Palermo Centrale railway station

Palermo Centrale is the main railway station of the Italian city of Palermo, capital of Sicily. It is one of the most important "FS" stations of Italy. Along with Catania Centrale, Messina Centrale and Syracuse it is one of the most important stations of its region...

, Catania Centrale

Catania Centrale railway station

Catania Centrale is the main railway station of the Italian city of Catania, in Sicily. Along with Palermo Centrale, Messina Centrale and Syracuse it is one of the most important stations of its region. It is owned by the Ferrovie dello Stato, the national rail company of Italy.-History:The station...

 and Syracuse

Siracusa railway station

Siracusa is the main railway station of the Italian city of Syracuse , in Sicily. Like Palermo Centrale, Catania Centrale and Messina Centrale it is one of the most important stations in Sicily...

 it is one of the most important stations of its region. It is owned by the Ferrovie dello Stato

Ferrovie dello Stato

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, the national rail company of Italy

Italy

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History

The station, originally named simply as Messina, was inaugurated on 12 December 1866, as the terminal of the railway to Taormina

Taormina

Taormina is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century...

, first track of the Messina-Catania-Siracusa line. Heavily damaged after 1908 earthquake

1908 Messina earthquake

The 1908 Messina earthquake and tsunami took some 100,000–200,000 lives on December 28, 1908 in Sicily and Calabria, southern Italy.-Quake:On December 28, 1908 from about 05:20 to 05:21 an earthquake of 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale occurred centered on the of city Messina, in Sicily. Reggio...

, it was repaired few years later. In 1939 it was finally renewed and replaced by the modern Messina Centrale, with the station building projected by the architetct Angiolo Mazzoni

Angiolo Mazzoni

Angiolo Mazzoni was a prolific state architect and engineer of the Italian Fascist government of the 1920s and 1930s.Mazzoni designed hundreds of public buildings, post offices and train stations during the Interwar period in Italy...

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Structure and transport

The new station building

Station building

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 was projected following the modern criteria

Modern architecture

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 of the futurist

Futurism

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 architect Angiolo Mazzoni, and is extended through the stations square. Messina Centrale station is at almost contiguous with Messina Marittima station, located by the port and constituting a rail/ferry interchange point to Villa San Giovanni station

Villa San Giovanni railway station

Villa San Giovanni railway station is the main station serving the town and comune of Villa San Giovanni, in the region of Calabria, southern Italy. Opened in 1884, it forms part of the Southern Tyrrhenian railway . The station is currently managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana...

 across the Strait of Messina

Strait of Messina

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The station is electrified and served by regional trains, by an experimental suburban railway to Giampilieri  and by the modern Messina tramway

Trams in Messina

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 (at "Repubblica" stop, on station's square), opened in 2003. For long distance transport it counts some InterCity

InterCity

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 and Express

Express train

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 trains to Rome

Rome

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, Turin

Turin

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, Milan

Milan

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 and Venice

Venice

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, linking it also with Genoa

Genoa

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, Naples

Naples

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, Bologna

Bologna

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, Florence

Florence

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, Pisa

Pisa

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 and other cities. It is also part of the projected Berlin–Palermo railway axis

Berlin–Palermo railway axis

The Berlin-Palermo railway axis is Line 1 of the Trans-European Transport Networks ,which involves the creation of a 2,200 km-long high-speed rail line between Berlin and Palermo.-Germany:...

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See also

• Messina Marittima railway station
• Strait of Messina Bridge
  Strait of Messina Bridge
  The Strait of Messina Bridge is a long-planned suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, a narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of mainland Italy. In 2006, under Prime Minister Romano Prodi the project was cancelled...
  
  
• List of railway stations in Sicily
• Railway stations in Italy
  Railway stations in Italy
  Railway stations in Italy are maintained and operated by the RFI division of Ferrovie dello Stato Group. A minor part of them is operated by private and regional companies, conceded by the state.-Classification:...
  
  
• Rail transport in Italy
  Rail transport in Italy
  The Italian railway system is one of the most important infrastructure in the country, with a total length of . The network is recently growing with the construction of the new high speed rail network....
  
  
• History of rail transport in Italy

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