From July 16, the Rome-Pompeii direct Frecciarossa train will start. But only once a month

Starting on Sunday, July 16, the new direct Rome-Pompeii Frecciarossa connection will depart from Rome’s Termini station, a result of the collaboration between the Ministry of Culture and the Italian State Railways Group. Every third Sunday of the month it will be possible to reach Pompeii from Rome in one hour and 47 minutes without any changes with the Frecciarossa 1000, the flagship train of Trenitalia’s fleet, and to return, in the evening, in two hours and a quarter. Also already during the journey, passengers will be able to learn about the history of ancient Pompeii through a clip that will be broadcast on on-board monitors.

Departure is scheduled in the morning from Roma Termini at 8:53 a.m. with a stop at Napoli Centrale at 10:03 a.m. and arrival at Pompeii station at 10:40 a.m. Waiting for travelers headed to the Pompeii ruins will be the Pompeii Link shuttle bus. The return is at 6:40 p.m. with a stop at Napoli Centrale at 7:23 p.m. and arrival at Roma Termini at 8:55 p.m. The new link will be in addition to the existing fifty daily round trips between Rome and Pompeii by Frecciarossa train today, arriving at Naples Centrale by High Speed and continuing to the destination by Trenitalia regional trains from Piazza Garibaldi station below.

The new train service was presented yesterday at the Ministry of Culture by Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, Tourism Minister Daniela Santanché, FS Italian Group CEO Luigi Ferraris, Museums General Director Massimo Osanna and Pompeii Archaeological Park Director Gabriel Zuchtriegel.

“Rome and ancient Pompeii are now closer, allowing the many visitors from abroad who have returned in even greater numbers to Italy to easily admire in the same stay the wonder of the Roman Forum, the Palatine and the Colosseum and the magical suggestion of the remains of the city buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D.,” commented Minister Sangiuliano. “The realization of a quick and fast connection also has a strong evocative power: on the one hand, it harks back to the Grand Tour, when Northern European literati and artists discovered Southern Italy and its Greco-Roman roots. On the other hand, this work honors the first railway line in the Italian peninsula, the NapoliPortici, inaugurated in 1839. Thus, on the tracks will flow the past, present and future of Italy, a nation firmly rooted in its roots and aware of its cultural heritage, ready more than ever to be a leading player in tomorrow’s world.”

“Our commitment as Archaeological Park will be to work so that the increase in flows to Pompeii, thanks also to this splendid initiative strongly desired by Minister Sangiuliano, has an impact not only on Pompeii, but on the entire surrounding area. The ’Greater Pompeii’ to which we are aiming is, in our vision, a great diffuse museum, a park without clear boundaries, embracing the territory around Pompeii, from Torre Annunziata, Boscoreale and Longola to Scafati, Lettere, Sant’Antonio Abate and Castellammare di Stabia. It is an ecosystem made up of a participatory approach to planning and communication, shuttles that take people from one site to another, annual and cumulative tickets, initiatives, and above all partnerships with communities, associations, and local authorities,” said Pompeii Archaeological Park director Gabriel Zuchtriegel. “The goal is to show concretely that with culture we can change people’s lives and create cultural, social and even economic development, in line with the ministerial guideline for the activities of museums and parks.”

“The new Rome-Pompeii connection will accompany every third Sunday of the month Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane travelers to the city of the excavations directly with the Frecciarossa 1000, that is, with Italian technological and engineering excellence in the field of transportation. Together with the Minister of Culture, we strongly believe in this initiative and its strong symbolic meaning. In fact, with our trains, which also represent spaces for meeting and sharing, we bring more and more people to those places where culture is made or that attract for their historical and artistic peculiarities,” said FS Group CEO Luigi Ferraris.

From July 16, the Rome-Pompeii direct Frecciarossa train will start. But only once a month

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