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Fondachelli-Fantina is a comune (municipality) in the Sicilian Province of Messina. Situated between Novara and Francavilla di Sicilia, in the southern Peloritani mountains, it rises on an inland area and is above sea level, around the bed of the Patrì creek. The community also borders the municipalities of Antillo and Rodì Milici. It is 81 km from Catania, from Messina, from Syracuse, and from Palermo.
Developed from a number of rural hamlets in the territory of Novara di Sicilia, the collective community attained autonomous status in 1950 and called itself Fondachelli-Fantina, a name derived from Fondaci ( Arabic funduq : "stores" or "warehouses") and Fantinia ( Latin infans: "child"). It is historically important as one of the last Sicilian municipalities where Gallo-Sicilian survives as a spoken dialect making the town a linguistic island.