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Press ReleaseTRENITALIA/LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA: REDUCTIONSFOR THE 55 TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION discounts for CARTAFRECCIA members and visitors travelling toVenice on Frecciargento and Frecciabianca trains the exhibition will be open from June 1 to November 24Venice, 29 May 2013Reductions in the price of tickets for Trenitalia customers travelling to Venice by trainto visit the 55 th International Art Exhibition from June 1 to November 24 at Arsenaleand Giardini.The discounts, which are the result of the renewed agreement between GruppoFerrovie dello Stato Italiane and la Biennale di Venezia, are reserved to the holdersof CARTAFRECCIA, Trenitalia's free-of-charge loyalty card and to all visitorstravelling to the lagoon city on Frecciargento and Frecciabianca trains. Trenitalia is, in fact,the official carrier of the exhibition.To get the discounts visitors travelling by train must show their train ticket, with date oftravel, of a maximum of three days before. Instead, CARTAFRECCIA members mustshow their Trenitalia loyalty card to the exhibition ticket office.The same discounts and validation procedures also apply to tickets for some viewings atthe 70 th Venice Film Festival that will be held at Lido from August 28 to September 7.Every day 40 Frecciabianca trains connect Venice and Milan, while 36 Frecciargento trainscommute between the Capital and the lagoon city. Moreover, 4 Frecciabianca trains leavefrom Lecce and 2 EuroCity trains from Geneva with Venice as destination.Full information on la Biennale di Venezia will be available through Gruppo FS Italianemedia: La Freccia magazine, FSNews.it, FSNews Radio, LaFreccia.tv and Twitter (profile@fsnews_IT).With this collaboration, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane confirms its commitment topromoting culture alongside international prestigious institutions.It is a natural vocation for a Company that has been rooted in the civil and economicfabric of the Country for over one century, which accounts today for about 71thousands workers, and transports 600 millions passengers every year on a railwaynetwork of over 16,700 km, of which 1,000 for HS trains.