Espresso Riviera: This night train will whisk passengers from Rome to the French coast this summer

With languid summertime days astir nan corner, a long, leisurely train travel betwixt 2 dreamy destinations is conscionable nan ticket.

The bully news for travellers is that Italy is astir to restart a obstruction way that fulfils that desire to a tee.

The blissfully named Espresso Riviera is returning to nan rails aft a successful summertime play past year, pinch a flimsy alteration successful route.

The nighttime train will nexus Rome to Marseille, offering passengers a slow, scenic relationship betwixt Italy's culture-rich superior and nan French Riviera.

Italy launches caller nighttime train betwixt Rome and nan French Riviera

The Espresso Riviera is portion of Italy's tourer train initiative, which sees a relaunched vintage fleet ferrying visitors to immoderate of nan astir picturesque spots wrong nan country’s borders and beyond.

The service, operated by FS Treni Turistici, will tally connected weekends betwixt 4 July and 30 August, pinch tickets already connected sale.

Passengers tin take to recreation successful a sleeping car pinch backstage compartments aliases a much affordable couchette.

Trains depart from Roma Termini position connected Friday evening, arriving successful Marseille connected Saturday morning. The return train leaves from Marseille connected Saturday and arrives successful nan Italian superior connected Sunday morning.

The work travels on 1 of nan astir spectacular coastal routes successful nan Mediterranean - a bully logic to aftermath up early successful nan greeting to respect nan view.

There is besides a daytime replacement from Genoa, pinch backstage lounges and seats successful first people and 2nd class, if you want a spot longer to regard retired astatine nan sea.

The institution says it is readying a departure from Milan, too, that will tally consecutive to Genoa and nexus bluish Italy to France directly.

There will beryllium catering disposable connected committee for nan full route, offering dinner, meal and a barroom service.

The purpose is to facilitate "not only holidaymakers departing from nan capital, progressively looking for a varied connection of work levels connected committee nan train, but besides tourer flows towards occidental Liguria, yet offering a work without changes from Genoa to Ventimiglia and France," said Luigi Cantamessa, CEO of FS Treni Turistici Italiani.

Stop successful beautiful villages and stylish seaside resorts en route

On nan way, nan Espresso Riviera will extremity astatine respective tempting destinations.

Sanremo is simply a smart coastal edifice connected Italy’s Ligurian coast pinch a celebrated casino, while conscionable complete nan separator into France is Menton, a medieval municipality jutting retired into nan oversea renowned for its prized lemons.

After that, nan train pulls successful astatine nan glamorous seaside edifice towns of Monaco-Monte Carlo and Cannes.

After departing from Rome, nan afloat way will extremity astatine Genoa, Savona, Alassia, Imperia, Sanremo, and Ventimiglia successful Italy, and Menton, Monaco, Nice, Cannes, Saint-Raphaël–Valescure, Toulon and Marseille successful France.

While past twelvemonth nan way terminated successful Nice, this twelvemonth nan hold to Marseille gives travellers nan chance to research a vibrant larboard metropolis that has travel nether nan spotlight successful caller years.