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Metro-Bus-Tram Rome

231 Reviews The public transportation system is fairly efficient and connects you to most zones in town. The best way to move around is by bus & metro (this latter having only 2 lines: A & B, although they are...

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Vaporetto Venice

124 Reviews Alilaguna is a private company seperate to ACTV who run most of Venices Vaporettos. They operate services between Marco Polo airport and Venice as well as a number of the other islands in the Venetian...

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By Train Florence

68 Reviews Understanding the Billboard Train Times in the station. The photo shows the train number, the time it leaves and where it makes stops. They are all listed by the 24 hour clock time. Listed in the...

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Subway/Metro Milan

63 Reviews There excist subway in Milano which is the cheapest way for travelling inside the city area, and most probably the quickiest too. If visiting Milano by car, the best is to reach one of the starting...

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Train Verona

25 Reviews DEPOSITO BAGAGLI is the italian name... You can find one (see picture #1) at the Porta Nuova Train station but, since every bus from/to the province stops there, it may be convenient for leaving your...

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The train Pompeii

35 Reviews Getting to Pompeii and/or Herculaneum is very easy and inexpensive by train from Sorrento (we did) or Naples. Go to the station and ask for round-trip tickets on the Circumvesuviana. It'll cost about...

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Train Bologna

24 Reviews The size and traffic volume of Bologna Centrale makes it Italy’s fifth-largest train station. An average of 159,000 persons every day, 58 million per year, pass through its 839.5 square-foot facility....

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Train Pisa

55 Reviews Understanding the Billboard Train Times in the station. The photo shows the train number, the time it leaves and where it makes stops. They are all listed by the 24 hour clock time. Listed in the...

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Trains Genoa

10 Reviews Going to Genova by train is probably the wisest solution, even if not the cheaper one too. If you come from the North of Italy or from the Western part of the region (Savona and Imperia provinces),...

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Train Palermo

9 Reviews Central Station Palermo is referred to as "Stazione Centrale" or Stazione for short. It is a likely location you will see during your time here because if you are coming by train then of coarse you...

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Bycicles Ravenna

7 Reviews Emilia-Romagna region is one of the most active ones in using bicycles! Maybe one of the main factors of bike popularity is that these cities are between Alps and Apennines on the flat land which...

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Trains Como

4 Reviews Very easy indeed. Trains run from Milan Nord Cadora and Milan Centrale stations. Trains from Milan Centrale arrive at Como San Giovanni station, trains from Cadorna arrive at Como Nord Lago (very...

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Train between the Cinque Terre Villages Manarola

7 Reviews It is easy to get to Manarola by train. Perfect direct way to get there either from the south or north. Getting around Manarola is straight forward. Enjoy the view from the foot path along the sea but...

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walking Vernazza

4 Reviews The best way to get around Vernazza and the Cinque Terre is by foot. Walking along the cliffs between villages is a fantastic experience and the views are spectacular. You don't need proper hiking...

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train Liguria

7 Reviews Trenitalia has trains running all along the coast. It is easy to get on a train from Genoa to a smaller resort town in the neighbourhood. We flew into Genoa airport from there took the shuttlebus to...

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Airports from/to Rome Rome

139 Reviews For me , marco1989 is best company for Rome Private Transfer from/to Fiumicino Airport or from/to Civitavecchia. Transportation is furnished by licensed insured professional drivers and vehicles, who...

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By train (Santa Lucia station) Venice

43 Reviews We spent a couple days in Vicenza before continuing our trip east to Venice. The quickest and most efficient way to get to Venice was by train, so we purchased our tickets at the station in Vicenza,...

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By Bus Florence

48 Reviews If you like to go to Siena or San Gimignano you have to take a bus at the SITA bus station. This is situated in via Santa Caterina da Siena; it is around 100 meters from Santa Maria Novella train...

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Trains Milan

84 Reviews While I do not have practical information here for the train system in the Milan area, I do have two important points to share. First of all is that the trains we experienced arrived according to...

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Buses Verona

11 Reviews The Ryanair site lists only one bus a day, but has two flights a day. I'm pretty sure that they run a bus to meet each incoming and outgoing planet, but you might want to double-check. I had no...

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Airplane Bologna

10 Reviews if you want to know all the airlines company and all the flight form and to Bologna you can find in the Bologna airport website....there is'n only Ryanair, but other low cost or regular companies that...

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Busses Pisa

23 Reviews Bus is caught right outside the train terminal (next to the information center). Look for the " i " which denotes visitor's information. During Christmas and special holidays, the bus is free! Entire...

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airport Genoa

5 Reviews the Piazza Principi Station is only 8km far from the airport. here is the info about the bus service. and here the pdf bilingual printable foldout by taxi you can ask the flat fare at Radio Taxi

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Ship/Boat Palermo

3 Reviews It is a convenient way to get to Palermo and bring your car along. There are two companies offering the connection services: Grandi Navi Veloci offers three connections: .From Genoa, daily, duration:...

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Ferry Como

5 Reviews One of the most unforgettable scenic experiences a traveler can have in this beautiful region of Italy is to see the Lago di Como area by water. Don't miss the opportunity to take a lake ferry either...

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The Train Is Easy

by RoscoeGregg

I know for us that there was a fair amount of anxiety about the train on our first trip to Italy. This unease was totally unwarranted.The train is not a common form of travel in the U.S. Do not let this put you off. Here are the bullet points that will ease your Italian train experience.• There are train schedules posted at the head of the train platforms. This will tell you when trains leave and arrive. • There is an electronic board or monitor somewhere in every station with up to date information about your train. Where to catch it and if it is late.• Language is not a barrier. The folks at the ticket window see thousands of tourists every year and they will help you through it. There are machines in all but the smallest stations that are easy to use. They work in many languages. They are very easy and fast.• Reservations are not necessary for most trips. If you are taking a...

Try a Regionale Train

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We would like to recommend that you seek out a local train for at least some of your travels in Italy. Is it most important that you go fast or that you experience where you are?These slower “milk run trains” are filled with people going about their every day business. They stop often and the cast of characters changes. We find that people on these trains are more friendly and talkative. Some times having a nice conversation with an Italian more than makes up for the longer trip. Remember to relax you are here to see the country not rush from site to site.Give a Regionale Train a try you will not be sorry.

ZTL DRIVING LIMITS in Europe

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Don't worry unduly about Zona Traffico Limitato (ZTL's) in Italy & in Europe.Zona Traffico Limitato means: This is an area where traffic is restricted. I've driven all over Europe often & those signs are visible, if you expect them & watch for them. (See my pic of a ZTL in Cetona, Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy (pop. less than 3,000) In my experience, even in main cities, ZTL's are visible to an experienced driver. In major cities, you can drive in many central parts unimpeded by ZTL's. Most of the time you reach a ZTL preventing you to drive RIGHT but you can turn LEFT & drive around to a good spot to park & walk back (never far.)I was in Italy recently (Lazio, Toscana, Umbria and Marche) in towns & villages. ZTL's were clear everywhere. Once, I was driving at 7 a.m. in the middle of historic Cetona when I found myself crossing the marketplace, where stalls were being set up... & saw...

Where to buy Trenitalia tickets outside of Italy

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People often have serious difficulties buying tickets online using the Trenitalia website. It's not that you can't make it all the way to the purchase page, it's that your credit card won't be accepted for reasons that are not at all clear (even to the credit card company Help Desks).You can use online services like www.raileurope.com to buy tickets online - and they can even ship them to you wherever you live, as opposed to Trenitalia which will mail only in Italy. However, these services are pricey in that they charge quite a premium on the ticket prices. For example, the reservation fee for a train in Italy is usally something like 3 euro (almost $4USD), but I have seen raileurope.com quote $22USD for the same thing(!).What you may want to do is look at this link http://www.trenitalia.com/it/0f866ccf935c5010VgnVCM10000045a2e90aRCRD.shtml for a list of travel agencies outside Italy...

How to see a timetable in Trenitalia

by mccalpin

I have discovered a URL within trenitalia that shows you the arrivals and departures in one hour increments, apparently from any train station that trenitalia has access to, including non-Italian ones. I got to this URL by accident, and realized that it shows, for example, every train that is departing Roma Termini between 9 and 10 a.m. - quite similar to what you see on the wall at the station itself (except I don't see track numbers here, oh well...). Go to http://orarioint.trenitalia.com/bin/stboard.exe/en. Type in the name of a station, such as "Roma Termini", and then select a timeframe (like "from 09:00 h"). Then click on "Show" (the top one). You'll be presented a timetable, like at the station. Note that it will work also with non-Italian stations (try "Muenchen HBF" - the main train station in Munich). I have tried playing around with the URL, but there doesn't seem to be a...

Comparing Eurail pass to point to point tickets #1

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Someone recently asked about Eurailpass versus point to point tickets in Italy...here is a comparison of Rome to Florence, Florence to Venice, and Venice to Rome - versus the 3 day Italy pass from Eurail...***When I looked at raileurope a few minutes ago, the 3 day second class pass was $190 and the 3 day first class pass was $238 (hmmn, 1st class tickets are generally a 40%-50% premium over second class, so this looks odd already).So I planned 3 trips: Rome to Florence, Florence to Venice, and Venice back to Rome (assuming you are flying to/from Rome). Here's what I found:(Note: all numbers without markings are in euro)rome - florence Eurostar 33.00 2nd class 47.00 first class - directEuroCity 26.50 2nd class 35.00 first class - directespresso 17.90 2nd class - from Tiburtina to Campo di Marteregional 14.90 2nd class - directflorence - venice Eurostar 30.00 2nd class 44.00 first class -...

Comparing Eurailpass to point to point tickets #2

by mccalpin

(continued)Note that faster trains are generally more expensive, so the trains from Rome to Florence can be from 1.5 hours to nearly 4 hours. You need to research these more closely at http://www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html which I encourage you to get used to.The most expensive routing here is first class all the way:rome - florence = 47.00florence - venice = 44.00venice - rome = 81.50 172.50 = $231.15The first class Eurail pass is $238 - almost a wash.most expensive 2nd classrome - florence = 33.00florence - venice = 30.00venice to rome = 58.00 121.00 = $162.14The second class Eurail pass is $190 - hmmmn....You see, while the first class pass is almost a wash (I thought the pricing for the first class pass was oddly low), the pass is nearly $30 more expensive than the most expensive 2nd class point to point tickets...and over $100 more expensive than the cheapest 2nd class...

Different Types of Trains on Trenitalia

by mccalpin

People are often confused by the numbers of types of trains in Italy. Note that even though the vast majority of trains in Italy are by the national railroad (Trenitalia or old name of FS), there are many different types of trains, that vary based on speed, types of carriages, sleeping accommodations, number of stops, etc.Let's pick Rome to Florence, for example. Here you have eight (8!) different types of trains that make this run. They are (last number is price for 2nd class one way in euro):R - Regional - 3.5 hours - 1st and 2nd class - all seats open - 14.90ICN - InterCityNight - 2-3 hours - 1st and 2nd class seats (and sleeping accommodations) - some seats reserved and some seats open - 23.00IC - InterCity - 2.5 hours - 1st and 2nd class - some seats reserved and some seats open - 26.50ICplus - InterCity Plus - 2.5 hours - 1st and 2nd class - all seats reserved - 26.50EC - EuroCity...

Car renting fot the youngers

by marco2005

some one asked me on this issue so here my info updated 31.12.2005The main companies here are the global AVIS, the european EUROPCAR, the italian MAGGIORE.Here the minimum age requisite for these companiesAVIS:To rent a car with Avis age 25, or 21 (with license 2 years old) + 15 euro per daywww.avisautonoleggio.itwww.avis.comEUROPCAR:economy car (Fiat Punto) age 18 compact car (renault megane) age 21 (driver license must be 1 year old)standard car (Alfa Romeo 159) age 25 (driver license must be 1 year old)if you are younger you can rent but have to pay a supplement:• 18 anni: Euro 18,00 + vat (20%) per day • 19-20 anni: Euro 10,00 + vat (20%) per day• 21-24 anni: Euro 10,00 + vat (20%) per day (max 10 days)www.europcar.itMAGGIORE:minimum age 23 and driver license must be 1 year oldyoungers have to pay an extra per day.http://www.maggiore.itOn this site you can look for the best offers...

Milan Metro

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Milan's metro is clean, cheap and efficient. It has three principal lines - MM1 (the red line), MM2 (green) and MM3 (yellow) - that all meet at the hub stations of Stazione Centrale, Duomo, Cadorna and Lima. Tickets are as follows:Single - valid on the whole network for 75 minutes from validation but for only one journey. Cost = € 1,00.1 day travelcard - valid for 24 hours from stamping on the whole Milan network. Cost = € 3,00. A 2 day travelcard costs € 5,50.

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