{"id":8942,"date":"2025-08-19T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:08:26","slug":"italian-government-gives-final-approval-for-bridge-linking-sicily-to-mainland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/italian-government-gives-final-approval-for-bridge-linking-sicily-to-mainland\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian government gives final approval for bridge linking Sicily to mainland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/international\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; The Italian government has given the final approval for the construction of a multibillion-euro bridge linking Sicily to the mainland, a project that has been a topic of debate since at least the late 1960s.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3800\" height=\"3040\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4787.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8949\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photograph: Ivan Vdovin\/Alamy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/06\/italian-government-gives-final-approval-for-bridge-linking-sicily-to-mainland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u20ac13.5bn allocated for 10-year project to build longest single-span bridge in the world across the Strait of Messina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":8949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4787.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8950,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions\/8950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}