The Trans-Siberian of Italy, a journey into the heart of Beautiful country between mountains and valleys, characteristic villages. A unique and extraordinary landscape that can be admired along the Sulmona – Isernia railway line, precisely the Trans-Siberian of Italy, the most scenic railway in the rubber/pvc boots. The route from Sulmona to Isernia is 128,73 km long, of which 25 are in 58 tunnels, the longest of which measures 3.109 meters and crosses Monte Pagano.
Trans-Siberian of Italy
The historic line that connects Abruzzo to Molise follows an articulated and tortuous itinerary, offering the traveler a truly suggestive spectacle with breathtaking views. It is a fantastic journey to be experienced at least once in a lifetime. The itinerary plunges into the heart of the Majella Park and in the heart ofAbruzzo-Molisan Apenninesor. Exciting full immersion between snow-capped beech woods and railway stations where it seems that time has stopped.
On the Trans-Siberian you travel aboard historic trains with "centoporte" and "terrazzini" carriages built between 1920 and 1930, pulled by the diesel locomotive D445.1145. There Sulmona-Isernia it was inaugurated on 18 September 1897, it was defined as the Trans-Siberian by the journalist Luciano Zeppegno, due to the abundant snowfalls of the winter period. Copious rainfall that makes it look like the railway line that goes from Moscow to Vladivostok.
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