Scenic route
Treno di Dante
Florence → Ravenna · Italy
- Distance
- 136 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 39 km/h
- Top speed
- 70 km/h
- Operator
- Il Treno di Dante · Fondazione FS
- Train
- D445 + Centoporte coaches
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 2021
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Vintage Centoporte coaches link Dante’s Florence with his tomb in Ravenna over the Apennine Faentina line — joined by new direct Sunday trains since July 2026.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 6332675 (100 km), relation 11735091 (33 km) — 133 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of R 94525 (Zug-Nr. 94525)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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