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Turin–Milan High-speed Railway
The Turin–Milan high-speed railway line is a link in the Italian high-speed rail network. It is part of Corridor 5 of the European Union's Trans-European high-speed rail network, which connects Lisbon and Kyiv. The section between Turin and Novara opened on 10 February 2006, while the remainder opened on 5 December 2009. The route is long ( in Piedmont and in Lombardy The Lombardy Region (; ) is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Lombardy is ...) and crosses the territory of 41 municipalities. The estimated cost of the works is €2,580 million (). The flatness of the countryside has allowed 80% (approximately ) of the track to be built at ground level, with a small amount of line built in cuttings, approximately 15% (about ) on viaducts, and about 5% (nearly ) in cut-and-cover tunnel. Among the most imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torino Porta Susa Railway Station
Torino Porta Susa is a railway station in Turin, northern Italy; it is the second busiest mainline station in the city, after Torino Porta Nuova. It is located in ''Corso Inghilterra''. History The station was built in 1868 during the expansion of the city towards the west. Trains between Torino Porta Nuova and Milan stop at the station, including TGV services between Paris and Milan and other services using the Turin–Milan high-speed line. Reconstruction In April 2006, reconstruction of the station began in conjunction with the Turin Passante regional railway. This involved quadrupling of the number of tracks that run through central Turin. At Porta Susa station, the line was widened to six tracks with new platforms being built beneath the thoroughfare ''Corso Inghilterra''. A 300-metre long, 19-metre high glass and steel structure has been built above the tracks to create a new station, which is intended to become Turin's main hub of urban, regional and international ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torino Dora Railway Station
Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the River Po, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga hill. The population of the city proper is 856,745 as of 2025, while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city was historically a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. Turin is sometimes called "the cradle of Italian liberty" for having been the political and intellectual centre of the ''Risorgimen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Baltea
The Dora Baltea () or Doire Baltée () is a river in the Aosta Valley and in Piedmont, in northwestern Italy. It is a left-hand tributary of the Po and is about long. Name The river's Latin name was ''Duria maior'', ''Duria Baltica'' or ''Duria Bautica''. Strabo called it Δουριας (''Dourias'') in Greek. The name comes from the Celtic root *''dubr-'' ("flow"), itself from the Proto-Indo-European root *''dʰew-'' ("flow"). This root can be found in many European river names, such as Douro. The second element may derive from the Illyrian root *''balta'' ("‘swamp, marsh, white clay"). The river is called in Arpitan, in Valdôtain, and in Piedmontese. Geography It originates by Mont Blanc as the confluence of the Dora di Ferret, fed by the Pré de Bar Glacier in Val Ferret, and the Dora di Veny, fed by the Miage Glacier and Brenva Glacier in Val Veny. As it crosses the Aosta Valley, the Dora Baltea flows through the city of Aosta (where the Buthier runs i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rondissone
Rondissone is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main .... References External links Official website Cities and towns in Piedmont {{Turin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chivasso–Ivrea–Aosta Railway
The Chivasso–Ivrea–Aosta railway is a railway line that links the regions of Piedmont and Aosta Valley in Italy. It was inaugurated from 1858 to 1886. The railway was operated by the Italian Armys Ferrovieri Engineer Regiment from 1915 to 1943 and 1949 to 2001. See also * List of railway lines in Italy This is a list of all railway lines in Italy. Active lines Managed by Ferrovie dello Stato High–speed lines * Turin–Milan * Milan–Verona (under construction) * Verona–Venice (under construction) * Venice–Trieste (planning p ... References Footnotes Sources * * * External links Railway lines in Piedmont Railway lines opened in 1886 {{Italy-rail-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orco
The Orco (, that is lit. ''Water of gold''; ) is an Italian river. It originates in the Piedmontese slopes of Gran Paradiso and after about reaches the Po river near Chivasso, in the Metropolitan City of Turin. Its drainage basin is home to the most important complex of hydropower in Piedmont, consisting of six major dams (Agnel, Serrù, Ceresole Reale, Teleccio, Piantonetto, Valsoera), many smaller reservoirs and numerous turbines and power stations. The Orco is known also for its gold Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal ...-bearing sand, extracted already in antiquity. Even today there is a certain activity, on an amateur level, searching for grains of gold.''Oro nel fiume Orco a Feletto''www.minieredoro.it(accessdate: 7-6-2012) See also * Orco Valley Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malone (river)
Malone is a long stream () of the Metropolitan City of Turin in Piedmont, north-western Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b .... It is a left side tributary of the river Po which flows through the Canavese. Geography The river's source is at Monte Soglio from which it falls quickly and rapidly through the communes of Corio, Rocca Canavese, Barbania and Front (TO), growing in force as it receives contributions from streams descending from the ''Riserva Naturale della Vauda'' nature reserve on its right bank. The Malone then runs past Rivarossa, Lombardore, San Benigno Canavese then arrives at Brandizzo (near Chivasso) where it enters the Po. Regime The Italian word ''torrente'', translated as torrent, or stream, refers to a river in which the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Settimo Torinese–Pont Canavese Railway
The Settimo Torinese–Pont Canavese railway is a railway linking the comuni (municipalities) of Settimo Torinese and Pont Canavese in the Metropolitan City of Turin in Piedmont, north Italy. Settimo railway station is an interchange with the Turin-Milan railway, owned by Trenitalia. History The Settimo–Pont Canavese railway was, amongst other infrastructures, part of a plan to improve the Piedmontese economy started by Doc. Carlo Demaria, mayor Giuseppe Recrosio and entrepreneurs Giuseppe Chiesa and Fortunato Pistono. Construction started in 1856 by ''Società Anonima della Strada Ferrata del Canavese''. The section to Rivarolo, built to the unusual modified Iberian track gauge of , was opened in 1865. Due to the line not being profitable enough, ''Società Anonima per la Strada Ferrata e le Tranvie del Canavese'' took over the construction of the railway, rebuilding it from scratch to standard gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turin–Milan Railway
The Turin–Milan railway is a major Italian railway that links the cities of Turin and Milan. The railway is double track, standard gauge and fully electrified at 3 kV DC. It connects the cities of Settimo Torinese, Chivasso, Santhià, Vercelli, Novara, Magenta and Rho. Since February 2006 high-speed trains have operated over the Turin–Milan high-speed line between Turin and Novara. The remainder of the high-speed line between Novara and Milan was opened in December 2009, when the Bologna–Florence high-speed line and the remaining sections of the Rome–Naples high-speed railway line and the Naples–Salerno high-speed line are opened, completing the high-speed network between Turin and Salerno. History Construction and opening The line was built by Thomas Brassey under contract to the ''Società Vittorio Emanuele'' ("Victor Emmanuel Company", named in honour of Victor Emmanuel II, then king of Piedmont and Sardinia) and opened between Turin and Novara on 20 October 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autostrada A55
Autostrada A55 or Tangenziale di Torino ("Turin ring road") is an ''autostrada'' (Italian for "motorway") long in Italy located in the region of Piedmont that runs in the suburbs of Turin. In its main route, which surrounds the subalpine city for three quarters, it is composed of three lanes by direction of travel with an emergency lane and is divided figuratively into two sections: the North ring road and the South ring road, both managed by the ATIVA. It is a part of the E70 European route. Route North ring road South ring road Turin-Chivasso connection Moncalieri connection Pinerolo connection See also *Autostrade of Italy *Roads in Italy *Transport in Italy Other Italian roads *State highways (Italy) *Regional road (Italy) *Provincial road (Italy) *Municipal road (Italy) A strada comunale (Italian for municipal road; "strade comunali"), abbreviated SC, is an Italian road that is maintained by ''comune'', hence the name. They can be roads owned by '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autostrada A4 (Italy)
The Autostrada A4, or Autostrada Serenissima ("Republic of Venice, Serenissima motorway"), is an ''autostrade of Italy, autostrada'' (Italian language, Italian for "motorway") long in Italy located in the Regions of Italy, regions of Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia which connects Turin and Trieste via Milan and Venice crossing the entire Po Valley from west to east. The city of Venice (or rather, Mestre, a mainland ''frazione'' of Venice) originally formed a bottleneck on the A4, but is now bypassed by the Passante di Mestre (the old route through Mestre was renumbered Tangenziale di Venezia, A57). The A4 passes just north of the city of Milan, where it is toll-free. It is a part of the European route E55, E55, European route E64, E64 and European route E70, E70 European routes. Overview Due to the different companies that manage the different parts of the motorway, it is often referred to as formed by five sections: Turin-Milan, Milan-Brescia, Brescia-Padu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torino Stura Railway Station
Torino Stura railway station () serves the town and ''comune'' of Turin, in the Piedmont region, northwestern Italy. It is located on the Corso Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to .... Since 2012 it serves lines SFM1, SFM2 and SFM4, part of the Turin metropolitan railway service. Services References Railway stations in Turin {{Italy-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
