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the Trenino Verde of Sardinia
“It’s curious as this railway has been simply assem-
bled and doesn’t notch the ground and winds up,
down, without fear of leaps or bends, complying with
mountain’s whims. Before an obstacle it turns and
doesn’t mind to dig a tunnel. It certainly goes down
in a steep fall and doesn’t bother to embed itself in
a smoother place, like other more pretentious rails
would do.”
Elio Vittorini, “Sardinia as an infancy”
The journeys on Trenino Verde are one of the best ways to travel and to know the
different aspects of the island landscape, especially of the inland area.
The ARST Gestione FdS railway network is long more than 600 km and it runs across
almost all the geographic regions of the island.
The name synthesizes two important features of this service.
“Trenino” stands for the fact that is a narrow gauge railway built at the end of 1800,
where the distance between the rails is 945 mm instead of 1435 mm of the standard
gauge.
“Verde” because it crosses a land rich in vegetation. It is also called “the train in the
wilderness” emphasizing the travel through a wild uncontaminated landscape where
the railway seems to have always belonged to, just like signalman’s houses, stations
viaducts and other railway engineering works.
The speed of the train is the right one to allow you to appreciate aspects of the
island’s landscape as the train proceeds almost on tiptoes in an environmental context
unreachable by any other way.
IL TRENINO VERDE DELLA SARDEGNA
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