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Bad weather also hit the region of Calabria, across the Strait of Messina on the Italian mainland, causing Catanzaro mayor Nicola Fiorita to urge fellow residents to stay at home.

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Last year, the Red Bull athlete walked a whopping 3.6km over the Messina Strait, a body of water that runs between the island of Sicily and mainland Italy, on a 1.9cm-thin slackline. Stay up to ...

The journey south will include the famous crossing of the Strait of Messina, where the train trundles onto the ferry, before stopping in picture-postcard Taormina and Palermo.