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FOLIAGE TRAIN – Observe the autumn coat, with a scenic railway

vigezzo-valley-foliage-train-1-1vigezzo-valley-foliage-train-1-1In a year, 500,000 passengers use this train on the part of Italian line (one million of the Swiss). This is a special trip, in an explosion of colors and golden atmosphere. Before leaving, you should know that this is a slow journey (two hours to travel 52 km), on the scenic railroad that runs through the autumn colors of the Vigezzo Valley (Valley of painters, http://www.vallevigezzo.eu/ the particular place where they were born Giuseppe Mattia Borgnis and Carlo Mellerio). Inaugurated in 1923, and touching 32 stations scattered in the two neighboring valleys, in a couple of hours this slow railway runs through the Alps.

vigezzo-valley-foliage-train-2-1vigezzo-valley-foliage-train-2-1Those trains by white and blue colors of Vigezzina-Centovalli Railway, http://www.vigezzina.com/ for residents are a means of connection, but you can represent a unique opportunity to admire the great autumn coat that nature He gives to the earth, this season. Typical alpine railway, is considered the most beautiful scenic railway in Italy. Ready to go? Good. You will travel slowly, immersed in the colors of autumn, on board a narrow gauge train, the one that links Domodossola to Locarno (between Piedmont and Switzerland). This tour is enclosed in two brackets ideals: autumn leaves and low speed.vigezzo-valley-foliage-train-3-1vigezzo-valley-foliage-train-3-1

This is the tourist idea for all people who love the fall colors, experimenting in an original way the use of the train through the Vigezzo Valley and the Centovalli (a strip of land that goes down towards Locarno, entering the Swiss part of Lago Maggiore. http://www.vigezzina.com/index.php/tariffe/prenotazioni This is a land of museums (like the sweeps), in a valley that gave birth to famous celebrities. An example? John Maria Salati. To escape from captivity, jumped into the water to Dover, to reach the coasts of France. It was an August day in 1817, one in which a human being had swum the English Channel.

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