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Messina, in brief.

Strait crossing, astronomical clock.

Sicily's gateway across the narrow strait from the mainland, a busy port rebuilt after the catastrophic 1908 earthquake.

Its cathedral square is famous for a great astronomical clock whose gilded figures stir into motion every day at noon.

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