High-speed route
Frecciarossa Milan–Venice
Milan → Venice · Italy
Frecciarossa Milan–Venice in pictures
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- Distance
- 267 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 13 min
- Average speed
- 120 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia
- Train
- Frecciarossa 1000
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 2016
- Runs
- hourly or better
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
300 km/h out of Milan, then Verona, Vicenza and Padua: finishing with the causeway glide across the lagoon to Santa Lucia’s doorstep on the Grand Canal.
The red arrows took over the Venice run as the Milan–Brescia high-speed segment opened in 2016, and the route now mixes 300 km/h sprint with one of Italy’s richest classic corridors. Verona passes beneath its Roman arena skyline, Lake Garda glints beyond Peschiera and Desenzano, then Vicenza and Padua roll by before the causeway moment: two minutes of open lagoon with Venice rising ahead, and Santa Lucia’s platforms ending at the Grand Canal steps.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 546969 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of FR 9705
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Brescia high-speed sprint
- Lake Garda at Desenzano and Peschiera
- Verona Porta Nuova
- Vicenza’s Palladian skyline
- Padua before the lagoon
- Causeway into Santa Lucia
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