Sicilia Specific provides Sicilians dwelling in northern Italy a low-cost approach to get house for Christmas.
Italy will supply a particular rail service this Christmas with the launch of the Sicilia Specific, a sleeper prepare that hyperlinks the northern metropolis of Turin with the island of Sicily.
The purpose of the one-off service is to provide Sicilians primarily based within the north a low-cost approach to get house for Christmas with an alternative choice to flights which could be very costly throughout the festive season.
The 18-hour prepare service, organised by Italy’s FS Treni Turistici, will depart Turin on 21 December and return from Messina after the Christmas holidays on 5 January 2025.
The initiative took place following a request from Sicily governor Renato Schifani who stated the regional authorities is “taking each attainable motion to assist all these Sicilians, employees or college students, who by alternative or necessity stay in northern Italy and want to be a part of their family members to spend the Christmas holidays collectively.”
Schifani added that he hopes the north-south rail service could be repeated at different occasions of the 12 months.
The prepare has 544 seats and two eating vehicles, providing conventional Sicilian meals and wine, and can go by means of a lot of Italy’s primary cities. Pets can even be allowed on board.
The prepare will depart from Turin Porta Nuova on 21 December at 15.05, arriving within the Sicilian metropolis of Messina the subsequent morning at 09.45.
There are 9 stops alongside the way in which together with in Novara, Milan, Parma, Modena, Bologna, Florence, Arezzo, Rome and Salerno.
After the prepare arrives in Sicily, aboard a ship, the rail service splits into two instructions: one headed to Palermo within the nnorth-west and the opposite to Siracusa within the south-east.
The return journey will depart from Messina on 5 January at 18.50, arriving in Turin at 12.50 the next day.
Tickets for the Sicilia Specific – ranging from €29.90 one-way for a seat or €129 for a sleep compartment – go sale from 3 December through the FS Treni Turistici web site and thru Trenitalia gross sales channels.
Earlier this 12 months FS Treni Turistici launched new vacationer trains on a number of routes together with Rome to Puglia, Milan to the French Riviera, Milan to the coast of Tuscany and Rome to Assisi and Alba.
