The town of Savoca is located on a bivertice hill, with an altitude of 330 m s.l.m., located in the Ionian coast of the Metropolitan City of Messina, a few kilometers from Taormina. It consists of 9 hamlets and has a population of 1,711 (ISTAT 2022 data).

The same preserves vestiges of medieval origin and are still present in the architecture of its monuments references to Baroque and Renaissance art as well as Arab, Norman, Byzantine and Jewish influences that have characterized its history. It is nicknamed "the city with seven faces" because seven are the districts that make up the historic center (Sant'Antonio, Cappuccini, Borgo, San Michele, San Rocco, Pentefur and San Giovanni) and each of them has views and perspectives of rare beauty.

The Municipality of Savoca is part of the National Association of "The most beautiful villages in Italy" and in 1971 was the film set where they shot important scenes of the colossal "The Godfather". There are many preserved artistic testimonies belonging to different historical periods. The oldest paintings are kept at the Cathedral and depict Saint Basil the Great and Saint John Chrysostom. The moment of greatest splendor for the village is represented by the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They are from this period: the mullioned window, the Renaissance rose window of the Cathedral, the Gothic-Catalan portals of the Church of San Michele and the painting on panel depicting San Michele Arcangelo. To the eighteenth century belong the cycle of wall paintings, framed in beautiful stucco, the church of San Michele. Among the testimonies of goldsmith, there are an architectural thurible of the fifteenth second, chalices and processional crosses of the early seventeenth century.

The same is one of the few centers in Sicily in which there is evidence of the mummification process that was once practiced throughout the island and there are now 37 mummified bodies, through the same, at the Crypt of the Convent of the Capuchins, also a historic monument located in the medieval center.

Central interest in the local tradition is the living representation of the Martyrdom of Saint Lucia, patron saint of the village, which takes place on the second Sunday of August, and the procession of the Via Crucis that takes place during Holy Week, during the latter are still sung traditional melodies to the sound of the "Troccola" and take part in the c.d. "hooded" of the Brotherhood of Saint Lucia. These are just a few elements that make Savoca, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy.