Italian highways network connects the country to Europe through France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia.
Highways from France:
Autostrada dei Fiori
A10 - Traforo del Monte Bianco
A5 – Autostrada del Frejus
A32
Highways from Switzerland:
Autostrada del Laghi
A9 – Autostrada Gran San Bernardo
T2
Highways from Austria:
Autostrada del Brennero
A22 - Autostrada Alpe – Adria
A23
Highways from Slovenia and Croatia:
A4 node
On Italian highway network are located barriers where you need to pay a price for the distance you ride. There is a coupon that allows the movement in certain time periods called Viacard, prepaid cards sold in gasoline service stations which allow a faster transit. There is also a postpay system called Telepass that allows the passage of highway barriers.
Italy counts a lot of airports linking the country from morning until late night, by low cost or line flights.
Le città più popolose, come
The most populated cities like
Milan,
Rome and
Naples are linked by numerous daily flights, while for what concerns the tourism destinations, the airports are often full in the summer period with a lot of arrivals from all over Europe.
Italian train network is managed by Trenitalia, which links the country with the main European cities.
From Northern Italy it is possible to reach Sicily without getting off the train: the coaches are in fact carried by special ferry from Villa San Giovanni (
Calabria Region) to
Messina (
Sicily).
Naval connections provide numerous domestic routes linking Italy to the large and smaller Italian islands. International routes to and from Spain, France, Greece, Tunisia, Croatia, Turkey, Morocco and Malta are also frequent.