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Italy’s Sicily region will once again offer a special rail service this Christmas with the Sicilia Express, a sleeper train that links the northern Italian city of Turin with the southern island.<\/p>\n
The aim of the service, which was launched last December, is to give Sicilian students and workers based in the north of Italy a low-cost way to get home for Christmas, offering an alternative to flights which can be very expensive during the festive season.<\/p>\n
The 18-hour train service, organised by Italy’s FS Treni Turistici in collaboration with the Sicilian region, will leave Turin on 20 December and return from Sicily after the Christmas holidays on 5 January 2026.<\/p>\n
The train has\u00a0more than seats and two dining cars, offering traditional Sicilian food and wine, with couchettes available. Pets will also be allowed on board.<\/p>\n
The train will depart from Turin Porta Nuova on 20 December – with numerous\u00a0stops along the way including in Milan, Parma, Bologna, Florence, Rome and Salerno – before arriving in the Sicilian city of Messina the next morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the train arrives in Sicily, aboard a ship, the rail service splits into two directions: one headed to Palermo in the nnorth-west and the other to Siracusa in the south-east.<\/p>\n
The return journey will depart from Messina on the evening of 5 January, arriving in Turin the following day.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the Sicilia Express\u00a0will\u00a0go on sale soon\u00a0via the FS Treni Turistici website and through Trenitalia sales channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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