Three-time slacklining world champion Jaan Roose is pictured during the first slackline walk across the Messina Strait on July 10, 2024, between Santa Trada, Calabria, and Torre Faro, Sicily.

Editor’s note: This story was updated on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, with information on developments related to the bridge. NAPLES, Italy — There are no immediate plans to classify a massive suspension ...

NAPLES, Italy — A massive suspension bridge planned to connect Italy’s southern mainland to the island of Sicily not only would ease travel but potentially boost the country’s defense spending, ...

Travelers wishing to reach the island of Sicily from mainland Italy have only one option: to cross the Strait of Messina by boat. Today, the shortest route—a ferry ride from Villa San Giovanni to ...

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Incredible plan for world's longest suspension bridge gets thumbs-up The Italian government has given the green light to an incredibly ambitious plan to connect Sicily and mainland Italy with the ...

ROME -- Thousands of people marched in the Sicilian city of Messina on Saturday to protest a government plan to build a bridge that would connect the Italian mainland with Sicily in a massive $15.5 ...

ROME (AP) — Thousands of people marched in the Sicilian city of Messina on Saturday to protest a government plan to build a bridge that would connect the Italian mainland with Sicily in a massive 13.5 ...

This digital rendering shows a bridge linking the Italian mainland with Sicily, a long-delayed 13.5 billion euro ($15.5 billion) project, that an interministerial committee with oversight of strategic ...