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Zeus Prestige hands you the keys for luxury car rental in Messina at your hotel, at the ferry port or at Catania Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to the south. Rent or hire a supercar, a luxury SUV, a sports car or a convertible and drive the northeast corner of Sicily on your own schedule. Luxury car hire in Messina suits the shore road along the Strait, and a sports car suits the climb toward Taormina.
Messina sits on the western shore of the Strait, with the Peloritani mountains behind and Calabria across the water. Sicel settlers founded it as Zancle, the Romans renamed it Messana, and the port today links Sicily to Villa San Giovanni and Reggio Calabria, in 2021 as the busiest passenger port in Europe with more than 8 million crossings. The cathedral dates to the 12th century. The earthquake and tsunami of 1908 killed roughly 100,000 people and destroyed most of the old city, which was rebuilt in the Liberty style on a grid of wide, straight streets.
Life here faces the water. Ferries cross the Strait all day, the myth of Scylla and Charybdis hangs over the northern cape, and the island's third-largest city moves at a southern pace, with mountains close behind and the sea in every direction.
Top down for the northern shore. North of the centre the road reaches Torre Faro, a seaside village beside Lake Ganzirri, where a disused 235-metre pylon recalls the 220 kV line that carried power across the water to Calabria from 1955 to 1985. Capo Peloro, the island's northeastern tip, gives a clear view across the Strait toward Scilla. The wind off the water tugs at the windscreen, the ferries glide through the channel, and the open car sits at the edge of the shore with the whole width of the strait in front of it.
A sports car belongs on the road south along the Ionian shore. The old town of Taormina sits on a cliff about 250 metres above the sea, and a steep rock rises roughly 150 metres higher, crowned by a castle on Monte Tauro. Your pulse rises with the road as it lifts from the waterline toward the terraces, and the engine note comes back off the hillside. Etna lies about 45 minutes beyond, so the volcano fills the rear-view mirror on the way home.
Milazzo and Tindari make a long, easy day behind the wheel of a luxury SUV or a relaxed GT. About 43 kilometres from Messina, Milazzo sits at the base of a peninsula that reaches roughly 8 kilometres into the Tyrrhenian Sea. A castle begun by the Arabs, expanded by the Normans and rebuilt under the Spanish crowns watches over the port, where hydrofoils leave for the Aeolian Islands. At the tip of the cape, the Piscina di Venere is a natural pool. Further west along the coast, the hill of Tindari carries the sanctuary of the Black Madonna and the ruins of a town founded around 396 BC, with views toward Etna and the Lipari Islands. The seats stay comfortable for the long run west, and the car makes the coast road feel short.
Yes. We bring cars to Messina hotels and the ferry port, and to Catania Fontanarossa Airport (CTA). Tell us where you will be and we will build the handover around your day.
Choose a convertible for the Strait shore road, a fast sports car for the road toward Taormina, and a GT or SUV with room to spare for Milazzo, Tindari and longer Sicilian days.
Catania is about 96 kilometres south of Messina, along the Ionian coast.
Milazzo is about 43 kilometres from Messina, on the Tyrrhenian side of the island.
Yes. Taormina and Milazzo are both close, and Palermo lies about 223 kilometres to the west.
Browse our supercars, SUVs, sports cars and cabriolets, say where in Sicily you are staying, and the keys will be ready for your luxury car hire.
Luxury car rental in Messina with delivery to hotels, the ferry port and Catania Airport, plus drives to Taormina, Milazzo and the Strait.
