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April 20th, 2009 Posted in Italian Train Travel

Italy as always has been a destination of tourists. And most of the time rail travel is the most appropriate way of exploring the country. Train travel in Italy is the best way of touring and seeing the country’s major attractions such as St. Peters Basilica, Sicily and Sardinia islands, San Gimignano, Pantheon, Tuscany, Costa Smeralda, Dolomite mountains and The Leaning Tower of Pisa.

How to Travel by Rail in Italy?

  • Buying tickets for your train travel in Italy is very easy even if you do not speak the language. For traveling locally like Florence to Siena then you just buy the train ticket and hop on your scheduled train. Reservation was not necessary for the travel.
  • Though if you wanted to make sure that you have a ticket for a certain destination then it is the time for a pre-book train ticket though usually it is always available.
  • Buying tickets directly over the window of the train station, or you can buy through a ticket machine or reserve on line is the ways of buying a train ticket when traveling in Italy.
  • There are three types of train you can choose on your Italian Travel namely Eurostar, Intercity or the Intercity Plus trains, direct and Inter-Regional.
  • When departing from the station be sure to look for your schedule on the yellow orange schedule displayed. The schedules written on white are for train arriving on the station.
  • VALIDATE train tickets before heading off for your train. You validate your tickets through a yellow box. Yu insert the bottom part of your ticket for the validation.
  • Eurail Italy pass gives the user unlimited travel opportunities on the national rail of Italy.

There is no better way to savor the Italian lifestyle, food, culture and way of life or see the major attraction but on train travel.

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