PLANS for the world's longest suspension bridge have been signed off after over 2,000 years in the making.

The impressive structure will connect holiday hotspot mainland Italy with the island of Sicily - currently only accessible by ferry.

Once finished, the bridge will stretch 3.6 kilometres (2.2 miles), surpassing Turkey ’s Çanakkale Bridge as the world’s longest single-span suspension bridge.

It will be supported by two monumental steel towers - standing a mega 399 metres tall - and be fit with a roadway platform able to withstand powerful wind speeds of 292km/h (181mph).

The total cost of the project is estimated at an eye watering £12billion (€13.5 billion), with the European Union agreeing to fund 50 per cent of the executive design costs for rail infrastructure — arou

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