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Orte – Rimini Rail Journey

After an uninspiring time spent in Orte, I returned back to the railway station before it fell down. There was a station cleaner doing a remarkable job, but this railway station does perhaps need a modernisation.

A war memorial. The station itself first opened in 1865 and it was briefly a terminus before the line was extended.

There’s currently no waiting room at this railway station and there’s not much seating anywhere. It was all a little bleak. There’s a cafe which doubles up as a little shop, but I decided against getting any snacks at that point.

It was actually Trieste that I needed to get to, but that is a very long journey and so I decided just to get to Rimini and then work it out from there. By this point I still hadn’t had any sleep since leaving Luton Travelodge early the previous morning, so I was just pleased to get as far as Rimini.

The train came sweeping into the platform. There are three types of trains in Italy, the high-speed intercity, the long distance trains and the regional trains. This was the middle one of those, but it’s the regional trains that I like the most.

There are compulsory seat reservations on the train and it was relatively busy. There was an elderly lady who was insistent that a foreign passenger (I assume foreign as she didn’t speak Italian) should move. Unfortunately, there were some translation issues and the women sitting in the wrong seat didn’t move for about twenty minutes. On the third try, she got the hint.

I mentioned that I like the regional trains the best and that’s because they’re double deckers, they’re spacious, they have power outlets and you don’t get manacled by seat reservations. To be fair though, this one did though have power outlets and I liked having the table.

It’s quite a beautiful journey with the Adriatic Sea easily visible along the coastal stretch.

It all got quieter as we neared Rimini. This photo was taken near to Pesaro, currently in the centre of a Pavarotti statue debacle.

And safely into Rimini, on time and quite relaxed by now. I had another little nap on the train just to entirely catch up on sleep and I found the sea view quite entertaining. I suspect that the ticket check took place when I was asleep as I woke up and was the only one in the carriage who had their ticket checked. Well, I was either asleep or looked completely dodgy and like a fare evader, but I like the former.

Anyway, an enjoyable journey and that meant my travels were coming to an end for the day other than for a walk to the hotel and a little evening walk around Rimini.

December 3, 2025
Walk around Orte

I arrived in Orte early in the morning from Rome, with the plan to spend a couple of hours looking around here before going to Rimini. It didn’t really go to plan, but here’s a religious statue outside the railway station. As a warning for the rest of this post, don’t expect much of interest to happen here….

The railway station is in a new part of Orte, but I thought I’d walk the 30 minutes to the old city. However, I discovered that although Google Maps thought that I could walk it, there was no pavement beyond this point and there wasn’t even much of a pavement at this point.

I’m not walking along that and a quick scan of Google Streetview showed that it was unwalkable with no path. So, I abandoned that plan thinking this is remarkably unusual for a town to have forgotten to connect itself to the railway station. Although not entirely unique…..

The River Tiber is in there somewhere.

I was now very much struggling to find anything interesting, but here’s a nice sculpture.

And back to the railway station, so all rather an anti-climax. I’m pleased to note that the rest of my Italian adventure was somewhat more interesting than this. I accept that I could have got on a bus to Orte if I had time to work all that out, but I didn’t much fancy missing my train as I was stuck waiting for a bus back.

December 3, 2025
Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport – Orte Rail Journey

My plan was to get from Rome Airport across to Rimini during the day, where I had booked a hotel. The first part of that was from the airport railway station to Orte.

This meant amusing myself for a few hours overnight, so I decided to eat some crisps which is always a sensible thing to do to pass some time.

I went to look where the airport’s railway station was as I thought that might kill some time as well. It took up about three minutes.

It’s not difficult to find and they’re also building a new underpass to get there.

Mine was the 06:57 train to Orte. By this time it was 03:15 and I was starting to feel I had explored all that needed exploring at the airport.

I sat near the entrance to the railway station waiting and I then realised, at about 05:40, that it was possible to change my rail ticket for free to any train on the same day. With the digital tickets, you can do this until just before the train, but at that point, you’re committed. What this meant is that I could catch an earlier train, so the 05:57 train to Orte. This seemed a sensible plan as I didn’t have much else to do.

Here’s the train, all clean, shiny and well presented.

There was lots of space and I’ve come to really like these Rock trains (or Hitachi Caravaggio) that they use on regional routes. They’re modern, they have power outlets, they’re double deckers and they’re comfortable with clear signage.

I changed seating styles to have a little nap.

Getting there….

And safely in Orte for a little exploration. Although this transpired not to be very exciting, but more of that in the next post….

December 3, 2025