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Federico Basile
Federico Basile (born 19 June 1977) is an Italian politician who served as mayor of Messina since 2022. Biography Basile holds a degree in economics and commerce from the University of Messina. In 2005 he obtained the qualification to the profession of chartered accountant, as well as to that of auditor. From 2013 to 2018 he was a member of the board of auditors of the University of Messina, while from 2016 to 2017 he was an expert in marketing and economy of the territory of the municipality of Montalbano Elicona. Since February 2020 he has held the dual office of president of the evaluation unit of the metropolitan city of Messina and general manager of the municipality of Messina Messina ( , ; ; ; ) is a harbour city and the capital city, capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of 216,918 inhabitants .... Mayor of Messina In 2022 he was a candidate f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Messina
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cateno De Luca
Cateno Roberto Salvatore De Luca (born 18 March 1972) is an Italian politician who has been the mayor of Messina from 2018 to 2022 and the mayor of Taormina since 2023. He was also the mayor of Fiumedinisi, his hometown, from 2003 to 2011 and of Santa Teresa di Riva from 2012 to 2017. De Luca began his career at the age of 18 in Christian Democracy (DC), the ruling party of post-war Italy. He often changed political parties, and switched between the DC's successors and other Christian-democratic parties, such as the Christian Democratic Centre (CCD) and the Union of the Centre (UdC), and regionalist ones, such as the Movement for Autonomy (MpA) and True Sicily (VS), which he founded as a split from the MpA in 2007. He also switched political alliances, at times allying with the centre-right coalition and at other times supporting the centre-left coalition or neither of the two largest blocs. In 2022, De Luca founded his own national political party, South calls North (S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan City Of Messina
The Metropolitan City of Messina () is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy. Its capital is the city of Messina. It replaced the province of Messina and comprises Messina and 107 other ''comuni'' (: ''comune''). It has 595,948 inhabitants as of 2025. According to Eurostat in 2014, the FUA of the metropolitan area of Messina had 277,584 inhabitants. The nearby archipelago of Aeolian Islands is also administratively a part of the Metropolitan City of Messina. History It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established on 15 August 2015. Geography The metropolitan city borders with the Metropolitan City of Palermo (the former province of Palermo), the Metropolitan City of Catania (the former province of Catania) and the province of Enna. Part of its territory includes the Metropolitan area of the Strait of Messina, shared with Reggio Calabria. It had an area of , which amounts to 12.6 percent of total area of the island, and a to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messina
Messina ( , ; ; ; ) is a harbour city and the capital city, capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of 216,918 inhabitants in the city proper and about 595,948 in the metropolitan city as of 2025. It is located near the northeast corner of Sicily, at the Strait of Messina and it is an important access terminal to Calabria region, Villa San Giovanni, Reggio Calabria on the mainland. Founded by the Sicels with the name of ''Zancle'' in 757 BC, which in Siculian, their language meant sickle, it was repopulated by Greek colonisation, Greek colonists of Magna Graecia and renamed ''Messana''. The city was renamed ''Messina'' in the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine age. It was an important Roman Empire, Roman, and then Byzantine Empire, Greek-Byzantine city, but in 843 it was completely destroyed by the Arabs. Almost abandoned during the Islamic period, it rose again i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Calls North
South calls North (, ScN) is a Regionalism (politics), regionalist and Populism, populist political party in Italy, based in Sicily and led by former mayor of Messina Cateno De Luca. History In 2007, Cateno De Luca, a former Christian Democracy (Italy), Christian Democrat who had been a member of the Christian Democratic Centre (1994–2002), the Union of the Centre (2002), Union of the Centre (2002–2005) and the Movement for Autonomy (2005–2008), formed Sicilia Vera, which soon became an independent party. In June 2022, in the run-up to the 2022 Sicilian regional election, Sicilian regional election, De Luca, along with former Five Star Movement MEP Dino Giarrusso, launched "South calls North", as a broader political vehicle than Sicilia Vera. However, after a few weeks, Giarrusso left the party due to conflicts with De Luca with regard to the party's candidatures in the following election and De Luca remained the sole leader. ScN took part in the 2022 Italian general elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Messina
The University of Messina (; Latin: ''Studiorum Universitas Messanae''), known colloquially as UniME, is a state university located in Messina, Sicily, Italy. Founded in 1548 by Pope Paul III, it was the world's first Jesuit college, and today it is counted among the oldest universities in Italy. It is organized in 12 departments offering more than 80 Graduate and Undergraduate Degrees, over 20 Master's Degrees and 13 PhD Programmes. Among them, 7 are English-taught. The University counts more than 23.000 students distributed in the 4 campus facilities spread across the city. Over the centuries the University of Messina has been a centre of attraction for esteemed scholars and historical figures, such as Giovanni Pascoli, Marcello Malpighi, Gaetano Salvemini and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. Organization The university comprises 12 departments: * Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations * Department of Economics * Department of Law * Department of Engineering * Department o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montalbano Elicona
Montalbano Elicona ( Sicilian: ''Muntarbanu'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about southwest of Messina on the Nebrodi mountains at the border with the Peloritani range. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"). It is mainly known for the castle built in 1233 by the Emperor Frederick II, the medieval architecture of its streets, the megaliths of Argimusco, and the natural wood of Malabotta. Montalbano Elicona borders the following municipalities: Basicò, Falcone, Floresta, Francavilla di Sicilia, Librizzi, Malvagna, Oliveri, Patti, Raccuja, Roccella Valdemone, San Piero Patti, Santa Domenica Vittoria, Tripi. Public transport Railways Montalbano Elicona is reachable by train: *''Falcone railway station'' is located 19,5 km away *''Novara-Montalbano-Furnari'' is located 23,8 km away. Both are on the Palermo–Messi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan City Of Messina
The Metropolitan City of Messina () is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy. Its capital is the city of Messina. It replaced the province of Messina and comprises Messina and 107 other ''comuni'' (: ''comune''). It has 595,948 inhabitants as of 2025. According to Eurostat in 2014, the FUA of the metropolitan area of Messina had 277,584 inhabitants. The nearby archipelago of Aeolian Islands is also administratively a part of the Metropolitan City of Messina. History It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established on 15 August 2015. Geography The metropolitan city borders with the Metropolitan City of Palermo (the former province of Palermo), the Metropolitan City of Catania (the former province of Catania) and the province of Enna. Part of its territory includes the Metropolitan area of the Strait of Messina, shared with Reggio Calabria. It had an area of , which amounts to 12.6 percent of total area of the island, and a to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Italian Local Elections
The 2022 Italian local elections were held in various Italian local communities on 12 June 2022, with a run-off round on 26 June. Local elections in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol were held on 15 May, with a second ballot on 29 May, while local elections in Aosta Valley on 29 May, with a second ballot on 12 June. Elections took place in 980 out of 7,904 municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ..., 26 of which were provincial capitals. Mayors and city councils were elected for the ordinary five-year terms, lasting till 2027. Voting system The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system, voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicilia Vera
Sicilia Vera () is a political party active in Sicily, led by Cateno De Luca. "Vera" is also an acronym for ''Verso una Economia Regionale Autonoma'' (). History The party was founded in 2007 by Cateno De Luca, at that time deputy of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. In the 2008 Sicilian regional election, De Luca found an agreement with the Movement for Autonomy (his former party) and was re-elected on its lists. In the 2012 Sicilian regional election De Luca ran for the presidency of the region with his own list, "Sicilian Revolution" (including also Sicilia Vera), but he scored just 1.2% of the vote and was not re-elected. On the occasion of the 2017 Sicilian regional election, Sicilia Vera made an electoral agreement with the Union of the Centre and De Luca was re-elected to the ARS, but on 20 December he left the UDC group and joined the mixed group. In the 2018 Italian local elections, De Luca was elected in the ballot (with 65.3% of the votes) mayor of Messina, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lega Per Salvini Premier
Lega (), whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier (, LSP or LpSP), is a right-wing populist political party in Italy, led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord (, LN). The LSP was established in December 2017 as the sister party of the LN, active in northern Italy, and as the replacement of Us with Salvini (NcS), LN's previous affiliate in central and southern Italy. The new party aimed at offering LN's values and policies to the rest of the country. Some political commentators described the LSP as a parallel party of the LN, with the aim of politically replacing it, also because of its statutory debt of €49 million. Indeed, since January 2020, the LN has become mostly inactive and has been practically supplanted by the LSP, which is active all around Italy. The LSP came third in the 2018 general election and first in the 2019 European Parliament election. Like the LN, the LSP is a confederation of regional parties, of which the largest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazzetta Del Sud
''Gazzetta del Sud'' is an Italian national daily newspaper for the south of Italy. The paper is published in Messina. Since 2017, it owns also the ''Giornale di Sicilia''. History and profile ''Gazzetta del Sud'' was founded in 1952 in Messina, Sicily by the Italian businessman and member of Liberal Party Uberto Bonino. Since 2006, it has been published in tabloid format. The paper has an independent political stance. ''Gazzetta del Sud'' is one of the most important newspapers published in Southern Italy; has the largest readership in Calabria and is the third-most read newspaper in Sicily, after the ''Giornale di Sicilia'' and '' La Sicilia''. In 2008 the circulation of the paper was 49,872 copies. ''Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa''. The paper publishes 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
