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Travelling by bus
The bus is the cheapest solution so as to travel, but the
service is not very frequent and turns out to be less comfortable
and fast than the train.
There is not a true national system of bus companies.
The main lines operate mostly within the regional borders
with service stations in the main cities that connect the
main city to the smallest centres, to the surrounding agricultural
and mountainous zones .
It is possible to have information directly at the bus terminal
or consulting the Yellow
Pages at the voice autolinee and Tuttocittà
at the voice trasporti.
In cities of big dimensions, it is possible to buy the ticket
in the offices of the companies or in agencies and the bus
generally leaves from a service station or in a particular
public square or road.
In the cities of small dimensions and in the countries, the
tickets are sold in the bars or inside the bus. Generally
the buses are punctual.
The main bus companies:
Information service on timetables of bus companies:
199-144343 or http://www.oraribus.it
It is a timetables search engine of the national lines of
transport on bus, in collaboration with the companies of transport.
Eurolines Italy
Eurolines is the main company of transports on bus in Europe
and connects Italian and foreign cities at convenient prices.
It provides on line all the data concerning the lines of its
network and the departures timetables towards the main European
destinations with prices often competitive in comparison with
trains and airplanes.
You cannot reserve on line, but selecting your own destination
and indicating the selected day for the departure, the database
provides the state of the place availability on the bus.
For information on timetables and rates:
http://www.eurolines.it
- EUROLINES ITALIA
via Mercadante 2/b - 50144 Florence - tel. +39055/357110
fax: +39055/350565 (Monday- Friday)
- EUROLINES ROMA
tel. +3906/4404009 fax: +3906/4404009 (Saturday and Sunday)
- EUROLINES MESTRE
tel. +39041/5382118 fax: +39041/5090140 (Saturday and Sunday)
- EUROLINES NAPOLI
tel. +30081/5634521 also fax (Saturday and Sunday).
- EUROLINES TORINO
tel. +39011/538967
Departure agencies and service stations where
it is possible to buy tickets for the Eurolines line:
- Autostazione - piazza Stazione 1 - Florence - tel.
+39055/215155
- Autostradale Viaggi - piazza Castello 1 - Milan
- tel. +3902/72001304
- Lazzi Express - via Ragliamento 27/r - Rome
- tel. +3906/8840840
- Agenzia Elios - Circonvallazione Nomentana
574, lato Stazione Tiburtina - Rome - tel. +3906/4404009
- Sadem Express - corso Siccardi 6 - Turin
- tel. +39011/538967
- Italatlas - corso Giulio Cesare 25/f - Turin -
tel. +39011/2475201
The departure service station in Turin is in corso Castelfidardo
ang. corso Vittorio Emanuele II tel. +39011/535247
- Agenzia Brusutti - piazzale Roma 540 - Venice
- tel. +39041/5203098
Tickets
The ticket has validity of 6 months from the issuing date,
it is nominative and it cannot be yielded; it can be issued
with open return, but the owner must reserve it at least 5
days before the requested departure date at the local centre
of reservation.
The rates include the travel by bus, highway tolls, Italian
and foreign taxes and the marine transport Calais/Dover.
The transport of two suitcases and a small light luggage are
permitted for each passenger.
One provides for the following:
- 80% price reduction for children from 0 to 3 years
accompanied by an adult who pays
- gratis in some countries for children from 0 to
4 years, without a place where to sit
- 50% price reduction for children from 4 to 11
or 12 years
- 10% price reduction for boys from 12 or 13 to
25 years and people beyond 60 years
- 10% o 15% price reduction for groups beyond
15 people
- reduced rates for return tickets on a fixed day
in some periods and not repayable
- Eurolines pass
Eurolines Pass
Special Ticket with validity 15, 30, 60 days that allows
to travel every day freely among the main European cities:
London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid, Paris, Lione, Barcelona,
Copenaghen, Basel, Hamburg, Berlin, Colony, Frankfurt, Monaco
di Baviera, Praga, Vienna, Budapest and Warsaw.
The cost is of 150 euro for 15 days, 215 euro for 30 days,
270 euro for 60 days.
The cost, for young people aged less than 26 years, is of
10 euro for 15 days, 179 euro for 30 days, 195 euro for 60
days in high season.
The price of the Pass is subject to a 25% reduction in low
season and permits limitless journeys in beyond 146 European
cities.
Busabout
A service active in Western and Eastern Europe in the period
comprised between April and October is offered by the English
company Busabout (tel. +44020/79501661 - fax: +44020/79501662).
In Italy are available 14 stops and it is possible to eventually
reserve the journey and the accomodation directly on the bus
or visiting the site http://www.busabout.com/.
Useful References:
- Italybus: http://www.italybus.it
The portal gives information on how to reach and what to
find in all the Italian cities, also the most distant ones
along the boot.
You can find the timetables of all the line buses that go
trough Italy.
For information: toll number 800/905345.
- Companies of Bus In English http://www.busweb.com/
In English. List of the main world companies existing on
the Web.
- In Italy Online (http://www.initaly.com/travel/travel.htm)
In English. Created by a group of travel agents (with correspondents
in Italy) it is composed of various sections that give information
on the Italian life, transport, etc.
- http://www.trasporti.it/
Search engine on the transports in Italy: cars, car agents,
bus companies and practicability.
- http://www.clickmobility.it/
Italian portal of mobility and the passenger transport.
- http://www.filotram.it/
Portal concerning trolley bus, tram and bus.
- http://www.abc-trasporti.com/
Exhaustive Portal on all the means of transport available
in Italy.
- http://www.felixia.it/
Other search engine on the transports.
City transports
Most of the big Italian cities have a good system of transport.
The most common means of transport are the buses; in some
city centres there are typical means of transport: in Bologna
the trolley bus, in Venice the water-buses, in Milan and Turin
the tram.
The only cities that have a metropolitan net are Milan, Rome,
Naples and Turin.
The buses are usually frequent and reliable.
It is possible to get information on the buses routes and
on timetables at the offices of Tourism and at the customer
service of the local public services.
The ticket for one trip generally has 1 hour validity and
costs approximately 0.90 euro. There are various types of subscription.
For visits of little days local cards offer many facilities.
Tickets cannot be bought on board, but in tabacconists, at
newspaper stands, in automatic machines, in the tube stations
and in the shops that expose the brand of the Municipal Streetcar
Transit Agency. It is necessary to obliterate the ticket as
soon as you get on the bus.
In case of non-obliteration, the previewed fine is of approximately
25.80 euro, sum that could vary according to the dispositions
taken in the various cities.
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