After the sell-out success of the Christmas and Easter services, the Sicilia Express offers Sicilians living in north Italy a low-cost way to travel home this summer.Italy will offer a special rail service this summer with the return of the Sicilia Express, a sleeper train that links the northern city of Turin with the island of Sicily.The aim of the direct service - which debuted last Christmas before returning over the Easter holiday - is to give Sicilians based in the north a low-cost way to travel home for the summer with an alternative to flights which can be very expensive during holiday periods. Sicilia Express The 18-hour train service, organised by Italy's FS Treni Turistici with the support of Sicilian regional authorities, will leave Turin on 30 July and return from Sicily on 23 August. The train stops at the stations of Milan, Parma, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Salerno and Messina: from there, one leg goes to Siracusa in the south-east of Sicily and the other to Palermo in the north-west of the island. Tickets, which went on sale on Thursday, costs €29.90 per journey, with dining cars offering traditional Sicilian food and wine, with a €25 menu. Tickets Tickets for the Sicilia Express went on sale from Thursday 24 July via the Sicilia Express website and through official Trenitalia sales channels. Last year FS Treni Turistici launched new tourist trains on several routes including Rome to Puglia, Milan to the French Riviera, Milan to the coast of Tuscany and Rome to Assisi and Alba while this month saw the debut of a night train linking Rome with the French Riviera.

Italy will offer a special rail service this summer with the return of the Sicilia Express, a sleeper train that links the northern city of Turin with the island of Sicily. The aim of the direct service - which debuted  before returning over the - is to give Sicilians based in the north a low-cost way to travel home for the summer with an alternative to flights which can be very expensive during holiday periods. Sicilia Express The 18-hour train service, organised by Italy's FS Treni Turistici with the support of Sicilian regional authorities, will leave Turin on 30 July and return from Sicily on 23 August. The train stops at the stations of Milan, Parma, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Salerno and Messina: from there, one leg goes to Siracusa in the south-east of Sicily and the other to Palermo in the north-west of the island. Tickets, which went on sale on Thursday, costs €29.90 per journey, with dining cars offering traditional Sicilian food and wine, with a €25 menu. Tickets Tickets for the Sicilia Express went on sale from Thursday 24 July via the and through official Trenitalia sales channels. Last year FS Treni Turistici launched new tourist trains on several routes including , ,  and  while this month saw the debut of a night train linking .