Passenger Trains | Southern Europe

Travel the Mediterranean the European way! Let Europe's trains guide you to famous tourism attractions and tourism sites in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece.Turkey train travel and Balkan train travel are also featured.This train travel tourism guide features links for Italy train travel, Spain Portugal train travel, Greece train travel and other travel destinations. Online train travel information features travel links for Italy train tickets and timetables, Spain Portugal train tickets and timetables, Greece train tickets and timetables.

Daily trips link Tirana with Shkodra, Fier, Ballsh, Vlora and Pogradec. International service is currently unavailable.

Andorra has no railways. Bus shuttles link Andorra la Vella with rail stations in L'Hospitalet près l'Andorre and Latour-de-Carol in France.

Service linking Sarajevo with Mostar continues to the Croatian port city of Ploce.

HZ's efficient rail network relies on putnicki locals and faster, pricier IC Intercity trains to connect Croatian villages and towns including capital city Zagreb and Adriatic Coastal towns from Split to Rijeka. Cross-border train services link to Ljubljana, Vienna, Budapest, Sarajevo and points in Italy and Germany.
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Two national lines include the southern narrow-gauge line that links PÙtra with the Peloponnese Peninsula and a modern IC InterCity line that stretches north from Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, International services run to Macedonia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey.
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Some 10,000-mi/16,000-km of passenger rail lines criss-cross Italy's bustling north and extend to the tip of the peninsula and beyond. High-speed services include the ES Eurostar Italia intercity network plus international Artesia TGV service to Lyon and Paris and CIS Cisalpino trains across the Swiss Alps and onto Stuttgart, Germany.

Trenitalia maintains a speedy domestic network of modern IC InterCity express trains and supports a number of EC EuroCity and EuroNght cross-border services to destinations like Paris, Nice, Vienna, Hamburg and Barcelona.

DIR Diretto, IR Interregionale and REG Regionale trains providing semi-express and local services trundle along less traveled routes and pursue less frequented destinations. Sardinia and Sicily are each served by local passenger services. Both are accessible by ferry from Genoa, Napoli and other ports; a rail barge out of Villa San Giovanni facilitates seamless train travel to Sicily.

Selected destinations: Milano, Padova, Venezia, Bologna, Fierenze (Florence), Roma and Napoli.Service notes: wheelchair access (selected trains/major stations), bicycle transport (all domestic and most international trains), reservations required for Eurostar Italia, Artesia and Cisalpino.
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Supplementing FS trains in Italy's affluent north, the railway operates Malpensa Express airport link and affiliated bus and air connections.
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This small Tuscan railway serves the Elsa River Valley between Empoli and Siena. A second line, between Poggibonsi and Colle val d'Elsa, is currently closed.
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MZ passenger trains operate from Skopje to Kumanovo, Tetovo, Shtip, Veles, Gevgelija, Prilep and Bitola. An international mainline bisects the country linking Serbia's capital, Belgrade with the Grecian port of Salonika.
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Service connects the Adriatic port of Bar with the capital city of Podgorica and the Serbian capital of Belgrade -- the system's only international link.
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Speedy Rápidos link capital Lisbon with Coimbra, Porto and Alentejo and the Algarve. Sintro and Cascais on the Costa del Sol are popular Regional destinations. International trains include Porto-Spain; Lisbon-Paris; and Lusitánia Hotel Trains to Madrid.
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Domestic services connect Subotica, Novi Sad, Belgrade and Nis. International trains link with Athens, Bar, Bucharest, Budapest, Istanbul, Ljubljana, Munich, Skopje, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Vienna, and Zagreb.
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Ljubljana is at the crossroads of two major European corridors. InterCity Slovenia (ICS) trains connect Koper, Pivka and Maribor. International EuroCity service extends to Venice-Trieste, Budapest-Kiev, Salzburg, and Zagreb-Belgrade-Thessalonica.
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AVE (Alta Velocidad Español) and other high-speed trains race travelers from Madrid to Cordoba, Seville and balmy Costa del Sol... and along the coast between Barcelona and Alicante. Other long-distance destinations include Bilbao, Granada and Valencia. Regionales cover shorter distances; International services to Lisbon, Paris, Zurich and Milan include RENFE's renowned Hotel Trains.
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Operated by the Basque Autonomous Government since 1982; six lines serve Bilbao and other regional destinations.
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This independent mainline carrier supplements Barecelona's RENFE service with trains to Sant Cugat del Valles, Terrassa and Sabadell. The company also runs four funicular railway lines and a "rack" railroad.
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Trains connect Ankara, Istanbul, Yzmir and intermediate points. International routes stretch into Bulgaria, Greece, Syria and Iran.
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FS Trenitalia trains connect Saint Peter's station with the European network.
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