Ethno-Photographic Museum Franchina Letizia

In via Vittorio Emanuele, in the nineteenth-century building now the representative seat of the Municipality of Tortorici, stands the Ethno-photographic Museum Franchina-Letizia, ​​the largest among those present in Sicily and the second most important in all of Italy, preceded by the Alinari National Museum of the Florence Photography. Subject to a restriction by the Superintendency for Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Messina, it exhibits period photographs that portray the historical memory of the country made by Monsignor Calogero Franchina and his granddaughter Marietta Letizia in the historical period from 1890 to 1980, as well as cameras, work tools and specialized magazines since 1913. In 2010, the Museum was further enriched thanks to the work of Salvatore Battaglia who wanted to donate about a hundred works including material and equipment, including film negatives, slides , prints, enamellers, datable between the late 1800s and the 1980s.