High-speed route
Frecciarossa
Milan → Naples · Italy
- Distance
- 770 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 185 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia
- Train
- ETR 1000
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 2009
- Runs
- hourly or better
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The 300 km/h spine of Italy. Milan–Bologna–Florence–Rome–Naples runs almost entirely on dedicated high-speed track finished in 2009.
The full run down Italy’s high-speed spine covers 770 km in a little over four hours. Po plain, Apennine base tunnels, the Direttissima to Rome and the 2005 line onward to Naples, with Vesuvius rising as the finale. Italians treat it as a rolling national metro: the same ETR 1000 might carry Milanese bankers, Bologna students and Neapolitan families home for Sunday lunch. Through trains continue beyond to Salerno, and the fastest Milan–Naples schedules beat any plausible airport-to-airport door time.
How this line was checked
- The 568 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 2179066 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.1% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 8 m); the longest stretch away from it is 9.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Trenitalia — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Po plain departure
- Apennine crossing to Florence
- Valdarno and the Direttissima
- Roman campagna pause
- Vesuvius into Napoli Centrale
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