Italy is preparing to spend roughly $12.7 billion on a bridge that would finally stitch Sicily to the mainland, a project ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine. Were you to swim the strait between the toe of Italy and the horn of Sicily ...

An Italian court has ruled that plans for the world's largest suspension bridge between mainland Italy and the island of Sicily would break EU environmental and tender rules, but the government said ...

He lamented that it takes hours to go by train between Sicily’s major cities – Palermo, Catania, Messina – and that the island, like the rest of southern Italy, needs to make high-speed trains a top ...

There is a popular saying in Italian – similar to how Anglophones use “when hell freezes over” – that translates as “I’ll do it when the bridge to Messina is finished.” The dream of a bridge ...

Minutes after Italy's powerful Court of Auditors rejected plans to build a bridge from the mainland to the island of Sicily, ...

Today we will share our Guide On What To Do At Messina Cruise Port. Messina is a city and the capital of the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the northeastern coast of Sicily, Italy. It’s the largest ...

Men with coarse features and shaved heads are pulling a heavy cart through the streets of Messina. The men, barefoot with tattoos on their upper arms, are sweating as they shout, again and again: ...

I enjoy riding around Europe via rail and have taken trains in Spain, France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and, recently, Italy. Italy's rail system is immense and connects almost every corner of the ...

Italian police have arrested the country’s most wanted mafia boss, who had been on the run for 30 years. Prosecutors say Matteo Messina Denaro is a boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia. Police on Monday ...

Sicilian mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro, widely thought to be the last godfather of his kind, was buried Wednesday in a private funeral in Castelvetrano, Sicily. But he won’t be the last leader of ...