Aegee messina (Sicily – Italy) has free places for the summer university from 20^th July to 3^rd August, more info at  www.aegeemessina.it , here at the end of this e-mail all the information on how to reach messina.

We are searching for 2 Boys.

Apply only if you are sure to come in case you will be accepted because confirmation will be required quite immediately.

 

If you want to apply please fill in the following data and DO NOT FORGET TO SPECIFY FOR WICH LEVEL OF THE LANGUAGE COURSE ARE YOU APPLY FOR (beginner, intermediate, advance):

Name:

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Aegee home local:

Date of birth:

Place of birth:

Nationality:

Mobile number (for quick contact):

E-mail:

Knowledge of Italian language (for the language course):

Passport No (just if you need a visa to enter in Italy):

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Please attach a card photo of you (just for Students Residence registration, we are a little bit in a hurry) or if you don’t have any photo of you now, please be ready in case you will be accepted to send it immediately to us. Also normal FRONT; OPEN EYES photo could be ok (we will resize and cut it for you).

 

Best Regards

Aegee Messina SU Coordination Team

 

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Marco Oriolesi

President and SU coordinator AEGEE-Messina

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Web: www.aegeemessina.it

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TRAVELLING TO AND FROM MESSINA BY PLANE

 

            Although Messina does not have its own airport, however it can be easily reached by flying to the Reggio Calabria or Catania Airports; Palermo Airport is a little bit far away (3 hours by train from Central Train Station).

 

            Reggio Calabria is very small airport but it's also the nearest Airports to Messina, connected through Myair, Alitalia, AirMalta, AirOne, Interstate Airline (http://www.consulta.it/) and Lufthansa.

 

            Catania is big airport quite near to Messina. REMEMBER AFTER 20:10 (08:10 p.m.) THERE IS NO WAY TO REACH MESSINA FROM CATANIA AIRPOIRT, REALLY NO WAY. Here a list of all the companies that actually flight to Catania airport (www.aeroporto.catania.it).

 

Low cost:

www.airberlin.com (Germany)

www.centralwings.com (Warsaw)

www.eurofly.it (Moscow)

www.flyaeroflight.de (Dusseldorf, Frankfurt)

www.hapagfly.com (Germany)

www.helvetic.com (Zurich)

www.hlx.com (Berlin, Cologne-Bonn, Hanover, Munich and Stuttgart)

www.jetonly.com (Bruxelles, Dussendorlf, Koeln, Liege)

www.meridiana.it (Barcellona, Cologne-Bonn, Parigi, Stuttgart and national destinations)

www.myair.com (Milan and Bologna)

www.transavia.nl (Amsterdam)

www.virgin-express.com (Bruxelles)

www.volawindjet.it (Barcellona [Monday, Wednesday and Friday; Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday to Palermo], Bucharest [Monday and Friday],  Madrid [Thursday and Sunday], Moscow [Saturday; Wednesday to Palermo], Oslo [Monday and Thursday], Paris [Monday, Friday and Saturday] and St. Petersburg [stuarday])

www.volareweb.com (Milano-Paris)

 

Normal companies: Alitalia, AirFrance, AirMalta, Austrianairlines, BritishAirways, Delta Airlines, KLM,

Lufthansa, LTU, LuxAirItalian.

National Flight provided by: www.volawindjet.it, www.myair.com, www.meridiana.it, www.volareweb.com, www.flyairone.it and www.alpieagles.com

 

Palermo Airport is useful because of Ryanair (www.ryanair.com) for example: Tampere-Londra Stansted-Palermo. Ryanair flight daily from Londra Stansted at 06:10 and 16:45 (if you take this one you have to spend a night in Palermo, first train to messina then at 04:00).

 

 

CONNECTION FROM AIRPORT TO MESSINA

 

Airport "Dello Stretto" of Reggio Calabria: take the bus "Federico" to Messina and get off at the last stop Piazzale Cavallotti very near to Piazza Repubblica - Stazione Centrale of train.

Bus timetable from Reggio Calabria Airport:

11:00 - 13:45 - 18:50 - 19:50 - 23:30 Arrival in Messina 1 hour later

Otherwise you can take fast hydroplane of Ferrovie dello Stato (italian train company to messina) but we suggest you to take the bus, anyway the airport is so little that you can just follow the others persons or at least ask…in all my life I have never seen more than one plane at time arriving at this airport.

 

Airport "Fontana Rossa" of Catania: take the bus of "SAIS" www.saisautolinee.it (site only in italian) to Messina and get off at the last stop: Piazza Repubblica - Stazione Centrale of train, it lasts about 1 hour and 50 minutes and the cost is 7,50 euro.

Bus from Catania Airport to Messina at:

6:20 9:40 10:40 11:45 12:40 14:00 16:40 18:10 19:10 20:10

Arrival in Messina 1:50 later

REMEMBER AFTER 20:10 THERE IS NO WAY TO REACH MESSINA FROM CATANIA AIRPOIRT, REALLY NO WAY

 

Airport "Punta Raisi" of Palermo:

First you need to reach Palermo Train Station. You can do this in 2 ways:

-        Take Train “Trinacria Express” to Palermo Centrale (Palermo c.le). From Monday to Saturday at 5:30 – 6:05 – 7:40 – 8:40 – 9:05 – 9:40 – 9:52 – 10:40 – 11:40 – 11:55 – 12:40 – 13:40 – 14:10 – 14:50 – 15:40 – 16:10 – 16:40 – 17:40 – 18:40 – 19:40 – 20:10 – 20:40 – 21:10 – 21:40 – 22:10. Arrival at Palermo train station 45 minutes – 1 hour later. Train ticket euro 4,50.

-        Bus “Prestia e Comandè” every half an hour from 6:00 to midnight, arrival in Palermo “Stazione Centrale” 50 minutes later. Get off at the last stop, it’s the train station. Ticket costs 4,80 euro.

Then to arrive to Messina you need to take another bus “SAIS” bus company (the last one at 18:30 and it costs 13,30 euro) or the train (the last at 20:45) to arrive at the Stazione Centrale of Messina (train ticket costs from euro 10,55 to 15,24 it depends from which kind of train you choose).

SAIS Bus from PALERMO to Messina. Departure in Via P.Balsamo 16 (just at the train station, exit from the station at your right):

05:00 - 07:00 - 09:00 - 12:00 - 14:00 - 16:00 - 18:30 - 20:00

Arrival in messina 2:40 hours later. Ticket costs 13,30 euro

In this case bus is faster…cause train are always in delay and they usually take 3 hours to arrive in Messina….but on the other side there are a lot of trains every day to arrive in messina from Palermo (last train at 20:45 and the first one at 04:00) and it's also cheaper. Normal train ticket cost euro 10,55…intercity trains (ICN or ICplus) cost 15,24 euro.

 

 

 

BUS FROM ROME - NAPLES - BRINDISI TO MESSINA

 

From Rome: Piazzale Tiburtina

Sais bus company www.saistrasporti.it  (so to find them search and ask for SAIS)

Departure time: 21:00

You will arrive in messina at 04:40 and 06:45 a.m. of the day after. Cost 40 euro, 36 euro if you are less than 26 years old.

Piazzale Tiburtina is in front of Tiburtina train station.

Tiburtina train station: another train station in Rome (The main one is Termini) reachable both by metro (Metro line B - blue) or by

train.

 

From Naples:

SAIS bus company www.saistrasporti.it (so to find them search and ask for SAIS)

Naples - Piazza Garibaldi (in front of train station) 22:00. Arrival in Messina at 06:45 of the day after.

Ticket costc 32 euro, 29 euro for younger than 26.

 

From Brindisi:

ETNA trasporti bus company www.interbus.it 

Viale Arno (in front of the city cemetery) Departure time at 9:30 and 22:00. Arrive in Messina at 16:15

and 05:00 at Piazza della Repubblica (the same square of the train station). Cost euro 30,50

 

 

TRAIN TO MESSINA

 

Check the train information at www.trenitalia.it (also in English…you will find English button on the top of the page).

 

From the web you can also buy the ticket finding a promotion offer.

One of the best promotional offer is "FREEDOM TO TRAVEL". The initiative is valid on domestic Intercity, Intercity Plus and Night trains. Special rates also on couchette and sleeper carriages.

Seated places from 15 euro

Couchettes (C4 and C6) from 30 euro

Wagon lits or comfort couchettes (C4 comfort) from 45 euro

Seats supply is limited and you can buy up until midnight of the day before departure (but obviously it's

better to reserve it before because it's a very good offer and the seats finish quite early)

C4= 4 persons in the cab

C4 comfort = air conditioned and new wagon

C6= 6 persons in the cab…so obviouslly C4 is better

To find this special offer it's better to check train not going to messina but to VILLA SAN GIOVANNI

(in Calabria just in front of Messina…then with the same train ticket if you bought one with destination

messina; or buying a special ticket of 1 euro direct in Villa San Giovanni) you can take the ferry to go to

Messina Train Station (specify you have to go to train station, because some ferrys go to Tremestieri and these are the wrong one). The ferries leave direct from the train station…you do not need to go out of the station just to change platform: go down the stairs, turn right, walk for 10-20 metres (it depends on wich platform you arrive) and the ferry is in front of you.

From PALERMO to Messina check the section "Connection from airport to Messina".

All tickets must be validated in the yellow machines available in all the railway stations.

It is necessary to reserve seats on EuroStar trains; ES trains are the most expensive ones.