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Buses

You can find all relevant information about local bus lines and schedules on Trieste Trasporti Website. The website is in Italian but easy to understand: You can find further explanations in English here: Local transport

Intercity buses are not very common way to travel in Italy. People mostly use trains. On the other hand, buses are commonly used to travel to nearby countries (like Slovenia, Croatia or Serbia) in Trieste. There are regular buses from Trieste to also other countries. We suggest you to visit website Time Table of Coaches From Trieste to see shedules of all buses departing from Trieste.

Trains

It is the most common way of intercity transport among Italians. You should visit website of [Trenitalia]to see shedules and ticket availability. Be avare that you will be charged a high fine if you don't have a ticket to take a train and it is controled on the way by the ticketman. You'd better stamp it with one of the yellow machines around the platforms just before the trip. This is compulsory.

There are two ways to buy a ticket: one is to consult the ticket office (Biglitteria) and another is to use automats in the train stations. You are charged a little amount of extra price (like 50 cents) at ticket offices but purchase is free of charge at the automats. Automat can be a better choice for the newcomers for its english options and simply english speaking clerk is not guarantied in Italy. Sometimes there are also a quick purchase automats which offers the closest departure train tickets.

Ferries

Airports Around Trieste

There are four convenient airports for national and international flights.

From closest to farthest:

1-Fruili Venezia Giulia Airport : This airport is less than an hour from Trieste. In order to get there you should that the APT bus 51, its cost is 3.25 euros per course and it leaves from the Trieste central station, its schedules are in [].

2-Ljubljana Airport (Slovenia): It is less than 2 hours way but it is tricky to arrive there. (There is a bus service which ment to be for drivers working at the Port of Trieste and this way can be used to reach Ljubljana airport. Otherwise, there is no direct way to go there except private car.)

3-Venice-Treviso Airport: To reach there you have to take a train to Treviso. Train trip lasts 2 hours more or less. When reached Treviso, one should get a bus from the main bus terminal which is just nearby the Central Train Station of Treviso. In total it takes around 2.5 hours to arrive in the airport.

4-Venice-Marco Polo Airport: To arrive to this airport you should take the train (see Trains) until the Venezia Mestre station and then take the [ATVO http://www.atvo.it/] bus to the Marco Polo Airport.