Voyage/Train

Aller à Esino en train

From Italy and Europe you can travel to Esino Lario by train through Milan, which is well-connected to Italian and to several European cities. The closest railway station to Esino is called Varenna-Esino-Perledo (12 km from Esino); from the railway station you can take a bus or a taxi.

From Switzerland, another option for travelling by train to Esino is via Chur and Tirano, by the UNESCO World Heritage Albula and Bernina lines of the Rhaetian Railway. There are trains every hour from Tirano to Varenna-Esino. From Zürich, this takes longer than travelling via Milan (travel time 7 to 8 hours, as opposed to 5 to 6), but may also actually be a cheap option if you're Swiss and have a GA travelcard, as this is valid till Tirano. The regular prices of the Swiss railways are rather steep, however.

Détails

Varenna-Esino-Perledo train station.

There are trains from Milan approximately every hour; direct trains every 2 hours (and every hour at peak hours) leaving from Milan Central Station. The last train from Milan Central Station to Varenna is at 21:20 (arrival at 22:35); the next train is at 6:20 in the morning. The last train from Varenna to Milan Central Station is at 22:21 (arriving at 23:30); the next train is at 5:26 in the morning. Time and prices of trains on Trenitalia website.

• Trains directs depuis Milan (Milano Stazione Centrale) jusqu’à la gare de Varenna-Esino (direction Lecco, Morbegno, Sondrio, Tirano). Trains toutes les deux heures ; 1h03 de trajet avec les trains régionaux depuis la gare centrale de Milan ; billet de 6 € 45.
• Bus depuis la station de Varenna-Esino pour Esino Lario (le bus attend le train, 2 € 40). Les horaires du bus régulier changent en été et en hiver ; pour Wikimania nous avons augmenté le nombre de bus.

La gare centrale de Milan (Milano Stazione Centrale) a des trains directs depuis :

• Naples (Rome, Bologne, Florence)
• Gênes (Pavie)
• Turin (Vercelli, Novara)
• Venise (Padoue, Vicenza, Vérone, Brescia)
• Paris (Lyon)
• Genève (Lausanne, Montreux, Sion, Brig)
• Bâle (Berne)
• Zurich (Bellinzone, Lugano)
• Vienne
• Munich (Innsbruck)
• …

Si votre train arrive à Milan dans une autre agre, vous pouvez rejoindre la gare centrale de Milan en utilisant le réseau de métro de Milan (billet 1 voyage : 1 € 50) :

• Milano Affori : métro 3 (ligne jaune – direction San Donato – 5 arrêts)
• Milano Cadorna : métro 2 (ligne verte – direction Cologno/Gessate – 5 arrêts)
• Milano Garibaldi : métro 2 (ligne verte – direction Cologno/Gessate – 2 arrêts)
• Milano Lambrate : métro 2 (ligne verte – direction Abbiategrasso/Milanofiori – 4 arrêts)
• Milano Lodi TIBB : métro 3 (ligne jaune– direction Comasina – 8 arrêts)
• Milano Rogoredo : métro 3 (ligne jaune – direction Comasina – 12 arrêts)
• Milano Porta Genova : métro 2 (ligne verte – direction Cologno/Gessate – 8 arrêts)

You can also use the journey planner at the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) web site to find connections to Varenna-Esino. If you don't enter a via station, these will be connections through Monza (faster); if you enter Tirano as via for a connection from e.g. Zürich or Basel, it will show connections via Albula/Bernina. Caution though: The journey planner may also display connections that make no sense, like sending you from Monza to Tirano and then back to Varenna-Esino, so if you want to travel by the Albula/Bernina lines, make sure that you actually use trains via Chur (or Landquart). Also, if it's important to you to experience the Albula line, double-check the intermediate stops - if the train stops at Klosters and Zernez, it's not using the Albula line, but the Vereina tunnel.

Note: As there is an update for Italy's train schedule on June 12, the SBB website lists currently no connections to Varenna-Esino after June 11, but the new schedule is already available at the Trenord web site. There are no big changes.

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