Decelerated and deeply relaxed on vacation: Italy will in future be offering tourists a trip to Venice or Siena in comfortable luxury trains by rail.
Rome - The railway in Italy is planning new luxury trains that will gondola tourists in elegant wagons on multi-day trips through the country from 2023.
Tourism Minister Massimo Garavaglia presented the project under the motto “Treno della Dolce Vita” (for example: Train of the Sweet Life) together with the state railway company FS and other participants in Rome on Tuesday.
The trains will bring travelers environmentally friendly and decelerated to a number of cultural sites such as Venice and Siena and other tourist gems, as the parties announced.
After the crisis in the travel industry caused by the corona pandemic, the project, in which the high-end supplier Arsenale is also involved, is intended to provide new impetus in the Mediterranean country.
From the beginning of 2023, according to the information, several designer trains with cabins and suites will run on ten different routes in the country.
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Trips with one to three overnight stays are planned. So there is the project of a tour on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. Small towns in Tuscany and in the Alps such as Cortina should also be controlled. The motto "Dolce Vita" refers to the film "La dolce vita" by Federico Fellini from 1960.
(dpa)