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 ...

More than 60 years after her death, Sicilian realist Messina (1887–1944) gets her first English translation, 10 stories published between 1909 and 1928 that focus on the downtrodden, poor and ...

General George S. Patton, one of the most revered, skilled and yet controversial figures in American military lore, reached the coastal city of Messina and secured the liberation of Sicily on this day ...

There were once other European train services that included ferry rides. The Hamburg-Copenhagen Vogelfluglinie (Bird Flight Line) service, for instance, crossed from Puttgarden on the German island of ...