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On the mainland, the bridge was to connect to the new stretch of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway (A3) and to the planned Naples-Reggio Calabria high-speed rail line; on the Sicilian side, to the Messina-Catania (A18) and Messina-Palermo motorways as well as the new Messina railway station (to be built by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana).
On 6 March 2009, however, as part of a massive new public works program, Silvio Berlusconi's government announced that plans to construct the Messina Bridge had been fully revived, pledging €1.3 billion as a contribution to its estimated cost of €6.1 billion [6] Some 3.3 km long and 60 m wide, the bridge would be supported by two 382 m ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Messina, Sicily, Italy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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The Battle of the Strait of Messina was fought in 276 BC when a Carthaginian fleet attacked the Sicilian fleet of Pyrrhus of Epirus, who was crossing the strait to Italy. Pyrrhus had left Italy for Sicily on the Autumn of 278 BC and scored several major victories against the Carthaginian armies, but Roman successes against Pyrrhus' Italian ...
The Real Cittadella was built by the Spanish Empire (who controlled the Kingdom of Sicily) between 1680 and 1686.It was built to defend the port of Messina, but it was also meant to establish a strong garrison in the city to prevent the population from revolting, as had happened a few years earlier in 1674.
Here's a timeline: Friday Dec. 8: An engineer and a 'critical finding' Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, 1:40 p.m.: ... Prezioso shares a video of bridge beams "bouncing." At some point on Monday afternoon ...
Strait of Messina Bridge Stonecutters Bridge Giorgio Diana (born 27 September 1936) is an Italian engineer, writer, and professor of Applied Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan .