Choose the scenic route through Italy on this one-off service, with special entertainment onboard. Homesick Sicilians have an affordable and sustainable new way to get home for Christmas this year: the Sicilia Express. The sleeper train has been organised for "workers or students.
..who wish to reach their loved ones to spend the Christmas holidays together" Sicily's regional president Renato Schifani said.
The Sicilia Express will leave Turin in northern Italy just before Christmas, on 21 December, and travel overnight to the island in the south. It will then return to Turin on 5 January, just before the Epiphany which is a bank holiday in Italy. Many Sicilians, especially young people, move to northern Italy for better work opportunities.
But flights between north and south Italy can be expensive, making frequent travel home difficult. FS Treni Turistici Italiani are pulling out all the stops to make the 18-hour an unforgettable one. "The experience on board the train will be enriched by the presence of well-known personalities who will narrate the journey to ," according to the Sicilia Express website.
The train will have two dining cars which promise to serve traditional Sicilian foods. Passengers won't get bored either, with "masterclasses, artistic performances and the participation of influencers and well-known personalities from the Sicilian scene" to entertain them. Ticket prices are very reasonable, starting at €29.
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