Centered in the Messina Strait, which separates Sicily from Calabria, the quake's magnitude equaled a 7.5 by today's Richter scale. Moments after the quake's first jolt, a devastating tsunami ...
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It’s the largest city in Sicily, after Palermo and Catan. And is located at the eastern end of the Strait of Messina, which separates Sicily from the Italian mainland. Messina has a long and ...
Today, the train-ferry crossing from Villa San Giovanni in Calabria – the “toe” of Italy’s “boot” – over to Messina, Sicily’s third-largest city, is the last of its kind in Europe.
Firefighters rescued residents from flooded streets and cars were washed away in the Sicilian region of Messina after a month's worth of rain fell ...
The country is looking to change that, though, by building a bridge across the Strait of Messina, which separates Sicily from the Italian Peninsula. The idea for the bridge is not new, dating all ...
Just two miles from mainland Italy across the Strait of Messina, the island of Sicily has such a rich, distinct identity, it can feel like an entirely separate country. This identity has been ...