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Discovering Italian railway tracks
09 Mar 2015, 03:10 pm
Rome, Mar 8 (NITN): Getting to know Italy through the history of its most hidden places which connected people and things for decades was possible on Sunday during the "Giornata delle ferrovie dimenticate" in its eighth edition.
Forgotten railways are those railway tracks where service was suspended for various reasons. Kilometres and kilometres scattered over almost all the Italian regions which can be covered on foot, by bicycle, on horseback or on trains running for the occasion; an opportunity to discover landscapes and difficult-to-access locations in Piedmont, Lombardy, Abruzzo, Latium, Molise, Apulia and so forth, throughout the peninsula, including Sicily and Sardinia.
Historical tracks that preserve traces of an industrial or agricultural past, which have a particular architectural or urban planning character, and which were open for visitors and tourists who will therefore be able to explore depots, tunnels and railway museums, or attend topical lectures and screenings.
Amongst the many "forgotten railways" on could be able to discover the Sulmona-Carpinone and Avezzano-Roccasecca lines in Abruzzo, cross the Alto Monferrato, following the former railway that connected Asti to Chivasso in Piedmont, or stroll along where the Trammino was: on foot along the tracks from Tirrenia to Marina di Pisa, in Tuscany.
The tracks opened on May 2, 1865, to allow the transport of minerals from the mine of San Leone (City of Assemini) to the coast of Capoterra.
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