City guides
Twelve cities, by rail
Each guide covers the station you actually want, whether the airport link is pass-valid, the sights worth booking ahead, and which day trips justify burning a travel day.
Lazio
Rome
The hinge of the Italian network
Tuscany
Florence
Ninety minutes from everywhere
Veneto
Venice
Get off at Santa Lucia, not Mestre
M
Lombardy
Milan
The northern gateway
N
Campania
Naples
The south begins here
T
Piedmont
Turin
Arcades, cinema and the Alps behind
B
Emilia-Romagna
Bologna
The junction that is worth stopping at
V
Veneto
Verona
Opera in a Roman arena
G
Liguria
Genoa
The way into the Cinque Terre
P
Sicily
Palermo
Norman, Arab and Byzantine at once
S
Tuscany
Siena
Medieval, and reached by regional train
B
Puglia
Bari
The heel, and the ferries to Greece