A 59 euro case for the other Italy.

In May 2026 Trenitalia launched Italia in Tour. Three consecutive days of unlimited regional trains for thirty-five euro, or five days for fifty-nine. It is the cheapest serious way to cross Italy by rail this year, and the most interesting thing about it is what it excludes.

What the pass is

Two variants, both second class, both buyable up to midnight the day before validity begins. Italia in Tour 3: three consecutive days, thirty-five euro. Italia in Tour 5: five consecutive days, fifty-nine euro.

Valid on Trenitalia Regionale, Regionale Veloce and local commuter trains, plus the Leonardo Express from Rome Fiumicino airport into Termini. Personal, non-transferable, no refunds. The start date can be moved free of charge, up to the night before the new start, within six months of purchase.

The official sale page is trenitalia.com/de/angebote/italia-in-tour.html. Buying happens through lefrecce.it.

What the pass is not

This is where editorial judgment matters. The pass does not cover Frecciarossa, Frecciargento, Frecciabianca or Italo. No high speed at all.

It does not cover the entire region of Lombardy. Trenord runs regional service there, and Trenord is explicitly excluded. Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Mantua, Pavia: all off the pass.

It does not cover the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. It does not cover the Trento to Bassano del Grappa line. It does not cover the Cinque Terre National Park stretch. Apulia Express is out, as is the Micotra on the Trieste to Tarvisio line. Any journey combining a Trenitalia regional with another carrier is out.

That is a long list. It is also the reason we are writing about this offer at all.

The contrarian frame

If you wanted to travel from Rome to Venice quickly, this pass is the wrong tool. Frecciarossa does it in three and a half hours; the regional route is twice that, with at least one change.

But the pass is not aimed at the people who want speed. Strip away high-speed rail, Lombardy, Bolzano and Cinque Terre, and what remains is the rail map of the other Italy: the spine of Umbria, the hills of central Tuscany away from Florence, the Po plain through Emilia-Romagna, the Adriatic, the Veneto countryside outside Venice.

Spoleto, Orvieto, Foligno, Arezzo, Parma, Modena, Ferrara, Ravenna, Padua, Verona. None of them are obscure. None of them are Frecciarossa stops in the way Rome or Milan are. All of them are reachable on a fifty-nine euro pass, in pleasant trains, with no booking required. You walk up, you board.

The exclusions are the editorial filter. Trenitalia did the policy work. The platform job is to tell travellers what to actually do with it.

Who it is for

Anyone with five days, a backpack and a tolerance for trains that stop everywhere. Anyone arriving at FCO and reluctant to commit immediately to a single city. Anyone who has done Rome, Florence and Venice on previous trips and is looking for the next layer down.

Not for anyone in a hurry. Not for anyone who specifically wants Cinque Terre, Milan or the Dolomites.

The route we built

Our companion piece, Rome to the Po, is a five-day itinerary that uses the pass end to end. It avoids Lombardy, ends in Verona for an evening international train, and stops at five places the express trains will not take you. The full route is at /routes/rome-to-the-po.

Editorial standards. This article is not sponsored. Trenitalia has no commercial relationship with undertourism.eu. The booking link is provided as a public utility.