The earthquake wrecked the commercial section along Messina's Corso Vittorio Emanuele skirting the seafront which included rows of warehouses: and the elegant palazzatta, a long sequence of seamless 17th-century buildings that fronted the sickle-shaped harbour, had sustained irreparable damage.
The earthquake wrecked the commercial section along Messina's Corso Vittorio Emanuele. The earthquake was skirting the seafront. This seafront included rows of warehouses. The elegant palazzatta had sustained irreparable damage. The elegant palazzatta was a long sequence of seamless 17th-century buildings-shaped harbour. These century buildings fronted the sickle.