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Strait of Messina towers view of Torre Faro from Calabria #326144629
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Villa San Giovanni, Calabria, July 2024, The Pylons of Messina are two free-standing steel towers, the Sicilian one in Torre Faro and the Calabrian one in Villa San Giovanni. They were used from 1955 to 1994 to carry a 220 kilovolt (150 kilovolt until 1971) power line across the Strait of Messina, between the Scilla substation in Calabria on the Italian mainland. The two pylons, built in 1955, are both 232-metre-high (761 ft) free-standing steel towers.