Turismo delle radici e itinerari culturali negli antichi casali messinesi di Gesso e Castanea

The article aims to analyse the tourist potential of two houses in Messina that jumped to the altars of the news for a broad debate about the origins of the first lady of the United States, Jill Jacobs Biden.
The two villages, located in the heart of the Peloritani and a few kilometres from Messina, delimit the municipal territory to the north towards the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Immersed in a suggestive nature crowned by hills and a panorama that unites the Strait to the Aeolian Islands, Gesso and Castanea are the protagonists of this elaborate, which considers the research and memories of old scholars of the past as well as the return tourism of the descendants of those emigrants who were forced to leave their community in search of fortune in America