We’ve all heard of America’s great road trips. If you have ever dreamed of going on a great Italian road trip, you will certainly come across this inevitable problem with plans: you cannot drive to Sicily. Of course, you can take your car onto the ferry. You can also take trains that take the last kind of ferry in Europe. However, the series of roads spanning the volatile straits of Messina, which separates Sicily from the mainland, was a dream that was postponed from ancient times. Elder Pliny I wrote about the Roman concept of building floating bridges – it was eventually discarded because it could disrupt a considerable north-south trade in the waterway.
It seems that Italians have since been joking about the impossibility of a bridge to Sicily. From these two videos You reach the point and B1M Describe the history of this constant, frustrating infrastructure project and the political manipulation that has recently begun to make it look so almost half-definite.
The challenges remain diverse by ensuring that Sea Monsters Scylla and Homer Sung are not threatened by Charybdis, where they are ensuring that they need to be seismic activity in the channel and local seismic activity, from seismic activity in the world that requires the construction of the largest single-span bridge in the world, to local mafia groups that require construction work interference.
Two years ago, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government approved an order to proceed with construction, but it is no one’s guess whether the expected completion by 2032 will be realized by whose guess. The very idea of such a structure has such a cultural resonance as its existence The collapse – It was assumed to have a great effect in recent Italian crime dramas. The bad guy. Despite its rave reviews, the series was also criticised in several political quarters to perpetuate the country’s negative stereotypes. It is a stereotype that could potentially be countered by terminating an ambitious new infrastructure. If Italy could build the Strait of the Messina Bridge, what could it have done after all?
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
