Piazza 9 Aprile
Taormina · Messina (Sicily) · Italy
Data: April 9
Photograph: Adriana Tirado (2009-10-02)
1860. Liberation of the Island of the Bourbons.
That day a rumor spread through the city that Garibaldi had disembarked at Marsala, Sicily, to free the island of the Bourbons. In fact, he did a month later, but this is the date that the city remembers.