Rometta

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{{Infobox Italian comune

| name = Rometta

| official_name = Comune di Rometta

| native_name = {{native name|el|Ρομέττα}}

| image_skyline = Rometta drone.jpg

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| image_caption = Skyline

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| coordinates = {{coord|38|10|N|15|25|E|type:city(6,458)_region:IT|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_footnotes =

| region = Sicily

| metropolitan_city = Messina (ME)

| frazioni = Rometta Marea, Gimello, Mazzabruno, Santa Domenica, Rapano, San Cono, Sotto Castello, S. Andrea

| mayor_party =

| mayor = Antonino Cirino

| area_footnotes =

| area_total_km2 = 32.5

| population_footnotes = All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.

| population_total = 6532

| population_as_of = 30 November 2012

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| population_demonym = Romettesi

| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_m = 560

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| saint = St. Leo of Catania

| day = 20 February

| postal_code = 98043

| area_code = 090

| website = {{official website|http://www.comunedirometta.it}}

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Rometta (Sicilian: Ramietta) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about {{convert|180|km|mi}} east of Palermo and about {{convert|12|km|mi|0}} west of Messina. It was the last bastion of Sicily controlled by the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), and falling only in 965 to the Kalbids' Muslim army in the Siege of Rometta.

File:Murales rometta.jpg

File:Rometta, sicilia.JPG and Aeolian islands at the sunset.]]

Rometta borders the following municipalities: Messina, Monforte San Giorgio, Roccavaldina, Saponara, Venetico, Spadafora.

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