Hand-coloured old engraving of a harbour town with red roofs, sailing ships on a curving bay and a smoking volcano behind green hills.
Antique bird's-eye engraved plan of Messina, its walled streets beside a sickle-shaped harbour full of sailing ships, with a Latin cartouche.
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The Strait of Messina

Pictures by Braun & Hogenberg

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Mount Etna trails smoke above the Strait of Messina while tall ships sail into the city's curving harbour, in a hand-coloured engraving by Braun and Hogenberg from 1617. That sickle-shaped harbour gave Messina its ancient Greek name, Zancle, meaning sickle. For a traveller, or anyone who loves Sicily and old maps.

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Messina · Engraved view / The Strait of Messina / Braun & Hogenberg, 1617 / Mount Etna sends up smoke above the strait, while ships sail into the curving harbor of Messina below. The harbor's sickle shape gave the city its ancient Greek name, Zancle, which means sickle.

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