Italy’s state-owned Trenitalia plans to start sending its Frecciarossa—Red Arrow—high-speed trains on international routes, starting this summer with a limited-run weekly round-trip route to Marseille.
That will be followed next year by routes from Rome and Milan to Munich, with each route eventually extended north to Berlin and south to Naples. The routes are part of an overall EU scheme for a “European Metro” of enhanced rail routes.
Trenitalia says that the routes to Germany, which will also have several Austrian stops, will also provide connections for destinations such as Frankfurt, Hamburg or Krakow.
The Rome-Marseille route will operate weekends as a 16.5-hour train with sleeping accommodations, traveling from Marseille along the Riviera with daytime stops at major resort areas before becoming a non-stop night express from Genoa to Rome
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