Italy to renovate historic train for luxury tourism

Italy has begun restoring the last example of the historic electric train to use it for luxury tourist trips.   
Designed by the company Breda in the early 1950s, the train – ETR300, better known as “Settebello” – traveled along the country's tracks between 1952 and 1992 and was one of the stars of the Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), the state-owned company that manages the railway branches. Italians.

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The train had been stopped for years in Falconara Marittima, on the east coast of the country, and was towed by a motor to Voghera, 400 km to the north, where the maintenance workshop of Trenitalia, the main Italian rail transport company, is located.

The seven carriages of the “Settebello” (hence the name) will be renovated to restore their original splendor, in a project valued at 8 million euros and financed through private sponsorship and European funds. When ready, the train will be used for luxury tourist trips.

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Capable of reaching speeds of 180 km/h, the famous train was a symbol of the economic boom and lifestyle of an Italy leaving behind the miseries of World War II. In the 1950s, it regularly traveled the Milan-Bologna-Rome route.