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Reservations are required
on all trains except those on Machines for Trenitalia Train Tickets
Regionale and InterRegionale These machines are easy to
routes. Tickets for immediate use, and most have
travel can be bought at the instructions on screen in a
station, but allow plenty of choice of six languages. They
time to wait in line. accept coins, bills, and
The Trenitalia website (see credit cards.
below) is useful for planning trips, Touch screen: choose
checking train times, and buying 1destination, train, and ticket
tickets. If you reserve in advance type, make seat reservations,
or are a family with a child, you and choose payment method.
may be able to get a cheaper
rate, but it is easiest to go to a 2 Insert coins here.
travel agency for a discounted
Payment with credit card:
ticket because Trenitalia’s offers 3touchpad with slot for
and fares change all the time. card below.
Receive train tickets,
4seat reservations, and
change here.
5 Insert bills here.

Traveling by Car
on exit. Tolls can be paid with
An Intercity train To drive your own car in Italy, cash, credit cards, or a prepaid
you need your driver’s license, ViaCard. The latter is widely
an international Green Card (for available (even at highway rest
Traveling by Bus
insurance purposes), and the stops), and the toll is deducted
Long-distance buses terminate vehicle registration document. from the card on leaving the
at Tiburtina, which is the city’s A translation of your driver’s freeway. Prices vary according
main bus station. Information license, available at Italian to road type.
and tickets for travel to tourist offices abroad, is useful. The official speed limits are
European cities are available Wearing seatbelts is mandatory 30–70 km/h (equivalent to
from the Eurolines, Baltour, or in Italy. Headlights must be 18–40 mph) in town, 80–110
Italybus websites. The latter turned on even during the day km/h (50–70 mph), on two-lane
usefully brings together various on freeways and outside of roads outside town, and 130
regional, inter-regional, and built-up areas. Heavy fines are km/h (80 mph) on freeways.
international bus routes and imposed for using a cell phone
companies. Local buses, serving while driving. You must also Directory
villages and towns within the carry a warning triangle and a
Lazio region, are run by reflective orange or yellow vest Traveling by Train
COTRAL. All bus stations used to wear if you leave your car in Italo
by COTRAL in Rome are linked case of breakdown. Main routes
to Metro stations. Tickets are to Rome connect with the ∑ italotreno.it
purchased on the spot and Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA), Stazione Termini
cannot be reserved in advance. Rome’s “beltway” (bypass). Tolls ∑ romatermini.com
Some day trips from Rome are charged on most Italian
by bus are described on freeways. You take a ticket when Trenitalia
pages 270–73. you enter a toll road, and pay Tel 89 20 21. ∑ trenitalia.com
Traveling by Bus
Baltour
∑ baltour.it
COTRAL
∑ cotralspa.it
Eurolines
∑ eurolines.com
Italybus
∑ italybus.it
Eurolines bus connecting Rome with the rest of Europe

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