Nice to Italy by Train

Is it worth a day trip from Nice to Italy and if so where to?

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Definitely. Sanremo on Saturday mornings for its market and the nice town, Ventimiglia (Vintimille in French) on Friday mornings also for its market.

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I too would like to go from Nice into Italy and want to take the local coast train. But I am finding it impossible to use the www.sncf.com website. Even if I switch it to english, I can%26#39;t figure out what to select to find the train schedule for the train system that runs from Nice into Italy (Ventimiglia is on the border...I think it goes there). Any websites you can suggest that tell me about the schedule/prices for the coastal train? Thx!

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A good website for schedules is the German rail site www.bahn.de

There is an English page there. However, they don%26#39;t list prices for all trains outside Germany.

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This is the direct link to the DB English language page - good for cross-border timings: reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en…

For prices, if you can%26#39;t work the SNCF site (and a lot of us can%26#39;t, especially if we haven%26#39;t got fast broadband), a good rule of thumb is that the price from Nice to Ventimiglia is €6, and then add the price from Ventimiglia to wherever you%26#39;re going from http://www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html, which is a lot easier to work.

Ventimiglia is an interesting place to go in its own right, though if you don%26#39;t like crowds and markets avoid Fridays like the plague. At other times, don%26#39;t expect a sophisticated glamourous resort in the Cote d%26#39;Azur style - it%26#39;s much more downmarket, catering for locals and for French daytrippers looking for bargains, not luxury long-stayers. And the old town, an interesting place with a C12 cathedral, is rather run down for some people%26#39;s tastes.

San Remo is probably the obvious destination. Also consider Bordighera, smaller, reasonably upmarket, with a very pleasant pedestrian seafront, a few elegant streets inland and a pleasant little old town up the hill with a number of reasonbly priced restaurants. And an excellent seafront market on Thursday mornings,

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Thank you so much for the helpful info! I just couldn%26#39;t tell from looking at rail maps if the train from Nice into Italy hugged the coast and I could stop and get off at some towns. 6 euro from Nice to Ventimiglia is a steal, and taking a train would be so much more fun than a car. Thanks again.

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Just in case you%26#39;d misunderstood, it%26#39;s €6 each way - not quite so much of a steal!

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