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DISCOVER ITALIA! RIGHT DOWN The Line Valentina Nicastro heads off the beaten track to the The Italian little-known Italian Trans-Siberian vintage railway Trans-Siberian or as long as I can and Molise along a path of 128 train line remember, I’ve always kilometres that was once part been fascinated by of the national railway network connects rail tracks and roaring and today is one of Italy’s most engines, so you can surprising tourist attractions. Sulmona, the Fimagine my excitement when the confetti capital search for unexplored trails and ENGINEERING MARVEL off-the-beaten-path places in my Officially opened on 18 September of Abruzzo, with homeland recently brought me 1897, the Italian Trans-Siberian aboard a special vintage train called train line connects Sulmona, the the lacemaking the ‘Italian Trans-Siberian’. confetti capital of Abruzzo, with centre of Isernia Snaking through an unspoiled the lacemaking centre of Isernia The Italian Trans- landscape of mountains, forests in Molise. It has always been in Molise Siberian railway and narrow gorges resembling the considered an engineering marvel, has been revived by a non-profi t legendary Moscow-Vladivostok owing to the outstanding technical organization called route (hence the name), this historic features that were developed to Le Rotaie train crosses the regions of Abruzzo enable travel through such an arduous landscape. The route encompasses 21 stations and runs through an impressive network of aqueducts, bridges and more than 50 tunnels, the longest of which measures 3,100 metres. After being completely destroyed during the Second World War, the line was reactivated in the 1960s, but was then gradually abandoned Images by Valentina Nicastro with the advent of high-speed trains.
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