Graniti: murals, river landscapes and the Alcantara valley

Graniti is a small municipality in the Metropolitan City of Messina, in Sicily, within the Alcantara River Park. The town overlooks the broad bed of the Petrolo stream, a tributary of the Alcantara, and lies in a protected position among hills and mountain reliefs. Its official local tourism pages present Graniti as a rural settlement with deep ties to agriculture, the Alcantara valley and popular traditions linked to Saint Sebastian. In recent years it has also become known for the Graniti Murales project, which has turned parts of the village into an open-air gallery.
Population: 1,463 inhabitants (2025).
Distance: about 12 km from Giardini Naxos, 15 km from Taormina and 56 km from Messina.
Highlights: the Murales route, the Giuseppe Mazzullo museum, the Graniti pine forest and the natural scenery of the Alcantara valley.