Torregrotta railway station

Torregrotta (Sicilian: Turri) is a small town and municipality (comune) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Messina. It is the twelfth most populous municipality in the Metropolitan City and the most densely populated. The urban area, located at 44 m a.s.l. in the Niceto valley, it stretches between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the first Peloritani mountains. Originally built in medieval times as a farmhouse of the Santa Maria della Scala fief, it was rebuilt since 1526 after a period of neglect. At the beginning of the 19th century, it became a sub-municipality of Roccavaldina from which it obtained administrative autonomy in 1923. The sixteenth-century nucleus extended above all since the second half of the nineteenth century. Center historically linked to agriculture, origin place of sbergia, Torregrotta has lost the traditional agricultural vocation in favor of tertiary sector. Clay extraction and transformation industry had a certain impulse in the twentieth century, almost completely ending in the 2000s. Medium and small craft enterprises prevail.

Valdina (Sicilian: Vaddina) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 kilometres (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Messina. Valdina borders the following municipalities: Roccavaldina, Torregrotta, Venetico.

Roccavaldina (Sicilian: Roccavaddina) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 kilometres (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Messina. Roccavaldina borders the following municipalities: Monforte San Giorgio, Rometta, Spadafora, Torregrotta, Valdina, Venetico.

Spadafora (Sicilian: Spatafora) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 15 km (9 mi) northwest of Messina. Spadafora borders the following municipalities: Roccavaldina, Rometta, Venetico.

Venetico (Sicilian: Venèticu) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 kilometres (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Messina. Venetico borders the following municipalities: Roccavaldina, Spadafora, Valdina.

San Pier Niceto (Sicilian: San Pieru Nicetu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,084 and an area of 36.3 square kilometres (14.0 sq mi).The municipality of San Pier Niceto contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) San Pier Marina, Serro, Zifronte, and Pirrera. San Pier Niceto borders the following municipalities: Condrò, Fiumedinisi, Gualtieri Sicaminò, Monforte San Giorgio, Pace del Mela, Santa Lucia del Mela.

Monforte San Giorgio (Sicilian: Munforti) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 kilometres (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Messina. It is home to the remains of a castle built by the local Orthodox monks to resist the Arab attacks. Later it was used by the Normans and the royal houses of Hohenstaufen and Anjou.

Condrò (Sicilian: Cundrò) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Messina. Condrò borders the following municipalities: Gualtieri Sicaminò, Pace del Mela, San Pier Niceto.

Gualtieri Sicaminò is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Palermo and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Messina. Gualtieri Sicaminò borders the following municipalities: Condrò, Pace del Mela, San Pier Niceto, Santa Lucia del Mela.

The Rometta Marea derailment occurred on Saturday 20 July 2002 in Rometta Marea, part of the Rometta comune in Sicily, Italy. The Espresso (express train) 1932 Freccia della Laguna, a Ferrovie dello Stato train coming from Palermo to Messina, where it would join another convoy coming from Siracusa, derailed while entering the town of Rometta Marea and hit an abandoned building, 400 metres from a pass-through railway station. Of the 190 passengers on board, 8 were killed and 47 were injured.