Venezia Santa Lucia/Venice S. L. (Venezia / Venice / Venedig)

There isn't a high speed line on the eastern side of Italy, but the Frecciarossa 700 trains, are used for this useful direct connection between Venice/Venezia and the coastal resorts and ferry ports on the Adriatic

There isn't a high speed railway between Venice/Venezia and Bologna, but high speed Frecce and Italo trains heading to Rome and beyond, provide the fastest express train services on this route.
Though as is typical, the faster a train, the more expensive it is likely to be; but the difference between journey times isn't particularly extreme on this route.

However, if you will be booking tickets last minute at the station, then taking the slowest Regionale Veloce trains will be a money saver.

There isn't a high speed railway between Venice/Venezia and Desenzano, but high speed Frecce and Italo trains heading to Milano and beyond, provide the only direct train services on this route.

There isn't a high speed railway between Venice/Venezia and Ferrara but Frecce trains provide the fastest express services on this route.

Those faster Frecce trains are typically the best option if you can book in advance, you may not have to pay much more for the speed and comparative comfort and tickets also include complimentary seat reservations.
Though you'll need to commit to taking a specific departure when booking the cheapest type of tickets.

In contrast, if you'll be booking last minute tickets at the station, the slower and more frequent Regionale Veloce (RV) trains will be the cheaper option - so they become the best option for a spontaneous day trip to beautiful Ferrara by train.

The 'Frecce' trains operated by Trenitalia share this route with Italo trains
They have similar speeds, so the differences between the two services are to do with the on-board experiences, check out the 'Trains' guides below; and the fact that tickets for the Italo trains and Frecce trains can be purchased from different online booking agents - it's a route on which you can save by booking in advance.

The Frecce and Italo trains are now the only option for taking a direct train from Venice to Florence.

Making the rail journey from Venice to western Switzerland is straightforward thanks to the locations being linked by comparatively comfortable trains.
Though the daily direct train isn't scheduled to arrive in Geneve until after 23:00 - and the optimum alternative also has an evening arrival

If you will be planning a travel itinerary which includes both Geneva and Venice, if you travel by direct train in the opposite direction you'll get to experience the fabulous views, which can be seen during the daytime.

All that’s good to know about taking the direct train from Venice to Genoa with easy access to ticket, train and station info.

Step on board for one of Europe's most glorious railway journeys which gets better and better the nearer the train gets to Innsbruck.
So at weekends, when two departures are available, taking the first train of the day from Venice/Venezia to Innsbruck is recommended.

Look up a journey by train from Venice/Venezia to Lugano on the rail ticket booking services and most of the journey options you will see involve taking a Frecce train to Milano Centrale station and connecting there for an EC express train to Lugano.

However, there is usually a direct train available, though it isn't due to arrive into Lugano until around 19:30.
If you want to arrive in the Swiss lake resort town (Lake Lugano is cited an Italian lake, but Lugano is in Switzerland) sooner, particularly good connections are usually available when departing from Venezia S. Lucia at around 05:40; 11:45; 12:45; 13:45 and 15:45.

When booking tickets for journeys by the direct train or the connecting between Frecce and EC trains in Milano, complimentary seat reservations for both trains will be included.
Though users of Eurail of InterRail passes will have to pay for those seat reservations, so if you will be travelling with a rail pass, a money saving option is to hop between Venice and Lugano on three regional trains, making connections in Verona and Milano.

Now that the first stage of the Venezia to Milano high speed line has opened west of Brescia, the rail service between Venice/Venezia and Milan/Milano is provided by

1. high speed 'Frecce' trains operated by the national rail company, Trenitalia
2. high speed Italo trains
3. EuroCity (EC) trains which be travelling on to Switzerland (these trains don't use the high speed line).

When taking the train from Venezia/Venice
to München/Munich you can either opt to take the fantastically scenic daytime journey, or travel overnight on a sleeper train.

However, due to construction works in Austria, the direct night train service will be suspended from November 18th to July 27th.

The 'Frecce' trains operated by Trenitalia share this route with Italo trains
They have similar speeds, so the differences between the two services are to do with the on-board experiences, check out the 'Trains' guides below; and the fact that tickets for the Italo trains and Frecce trains can be purchased from different online booking agents - it's a route on which you can save by booking in advance.

The Frecce and Italo trains are now the only option for taking a direct train from the historical heart of Venice (Venezia S. Lucia station) to Naples/Napoli.

Beautiful Padova/Padua is the closest city to Venezia/Venice so it's an easy and short journey by train.
Though when making a spontaneous day trip, the Regionale/Regionale Veloce trains are the best option, you won't lose out financially by not booking in advance, so you can book at the station and hop on the next train to depart.

If you book ahead for the express trains, you'll have to commit to a specific departure in order to save money on the ticket price, but there is little point in doing so, when there are so many departures per day.

There isn't a high speed railway between Venice/Venezia and Peschiera, but high speed Frecce and Italo trains heading to Milano and beyond, provide the only direct train services on this route.

The 'Frecce' trains operated by Trenitalia share the high-speed section of the route between Bologna and Roma, with Italo trains.
They have similar speeds, so the differences between the two services are to do with the on-board experiences, check out the 'Trains' guides below; and the fact that tickets for the Italo trains and Frecce trains can be purchased from different online booking agents - it's a route on which you can save by booking in advance.

However, some trains from Venice/Venezia to Rome/Roma take an entirely different and much longer cross-country route.
If ticket price and not speed is your key criteria, you can usually save money by taking these trains and they're a cheaper option for rail pass users; but they are not as frequent as the high speed services.

The 'Frecce' trains operated by Trenitalia are currently the only direct trains available when making a rail journey from Venezia/Venice to Torino/Turin.

Pre-pandemic Italo trains were available and they were also many more departures by Frecce trains, so hopefully the current level of service is a temporary reduction.

Despite the distance between Venice/Venezia and Trieste, the only direct train sevices which connect the historical heart of Venice with its fellow city on The Adriatic are the Regionale Veloce (RV) trains.
Express trains, on which seats can be reserved, aren't available when travelling from Venezia S. Lucia station.

That's because the relatively small number of express trains which head to Trieste from other Italian cities would have to divert off their direct routes to call at S. Lucia station, so they only call at Venezia Mestre station on the mainland.

There isn't a high speed railway between Venice/Venezia and Verona, but high speed Frecce and Italo trains heading to Milano and beyond, plus EC trains heading to Switzerland provide the fastest express train services on this route.
Though as is typical, the faster a train, the more expensive it is likely to be; but the difference in journey times between the express trains and the regional trains isn't particularly extreme on this route.

So if you will be booking tickets last minute at the station, for a spontaneous day trip from Venice to Verona, then taking the slower Regionale Veloce trains will be a money saver.

There isn't a high speed line (yet) between Venice and Vicenza, so all of the trains take the same route, but due to the comparatively short distance, the express trains (Frecce, Italo, EC) are less than 10 mins faster than the Regionale trains, despite being more expensive.

Hence SMTJ's advice is to ignore those express trains and only take the Regionale Veloce (RV) trains when taking the train from Venice to beautiful Vicenza.

This journey by train from to Venice/Venezia to Vienna/Wien is near the top of Europe's must do journeys by train lists.
The two beautiful cities are connected by top tier day and night trains and the route between them is stunning!

The daily direct train to Zurich is typically scheduled to depart at 15:18 and arrive at around 22:30 on Monday to Saturday and an hour earlier on Sunday.
After September 2nd the daily arrival time will be 19:30, because from that date the Monday to Saturday services will also revert back to using the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland.

Though if the timings of this direct train don't suit, the other option is to take a train to Milano Centrale and connect there for a train on to Zurich.
Particularly good connections are usually available when departing from Venezia S. Lucia at around 05:40; 11:45; 12:45; 13:45 and 15:45.

Taking an overnight journey isn't a feasible option on this route.

There isn't a high speed railway between Bologna and Venice/Venezia, but high speed Frecce and Italo trains which have travelled from destinations further south, provide the fastest express train services on this route.
Though as is typical, the faster a train, the more expensive it is likely to be; but the difference between journey times isn't particularly extreme on this route.

Two of the daily departures are the Frecciabianca trains, which will have travelled up from Lecce; and if you can book ahead; and the timings suit, these trains can be cheapest option of all.

However, if you will be booking tickets last minute at the station, taking the slowest Regionale Veloce trains will be a money saver.

The 'Frecce' trains operated by Trenitalia share the route, which is high speed between Firenze and Bologna, with Italo trains.
They have similar speeds, so the differences between the two services are to do with the on-board experiences, check out the 'Trains' guides below; and the fact that tickets for the Italo trains and Frecce trains can be purchased from different online booking agents - it's a route on which you can save by booking in advance.

There are no longer any direct Intercity trains from Firenze/Florence to the heart of historical Venice/Venezia

On the usual timetable the daily direct train departs before 05:45am, but there are alternative journey options which only have one connection in Milano.

Step on board for one of Europe's most fabulous journeys by train.

Now that the first stage of the Milano to Venezia high speed line has opened to Brescia, the rail service between Milan/Milano and Venice/Venezia is provided by

1. high speed 'Frecce' trains operated by the national rail company, Trenitalia
2. high speed Italo trains
3. EuroCity (EC) trains which have travelled from Switzerland (these trains don't use the high speed line).

When taking the train from München/Munich to Venezia/Venice you can either opt to take the fantastically scenic daytime journey, or travel overnight on a sleeper train.

However, due to construction works in Austria, the direct night train service will be suspended from November 18th to July 27th.

Travelling by train from Paris to Venice / Venezia is compromised until summer 2024 due to the reconstruction of the route from France to Turin, as a consequence of a landslide.
Until then what are typically the longer, but more scenic, routes through Switzerland, are the only option for an end-to-end rail journey in a single day from Paris to Venice.

Hence when looking up the journey you will see a plethora of journey options because there are multiple trains between Paris to Switzerland and on from Switzerland to Milano - where connections need to be made for Venice / Venezia
(The first trains of the day from Paris to Switzerland arrive too late to connect into the direct trains from Switzerland to Venice).

What ShowMetheJourney has done is cherry pick from these journeys via Switzerland, to highlight the option which don't also require a third connection between trains in Switzerland.
So it isn't the fastest combination of trains, but it is the easiest option - until the line to to Torino reopens.

When that route taken by the direct Paris to Italy trains does have a confirmed open date, and tickets come back on sale, the notes below, will then re-apply.

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How you travel from Paris to Venezia / Venice by train depends on whether you set off from the French capital in the morning, or depart in the early afternoon.

Depart from Paris before 07:00 and the end-to-end journey involves taking the Italian Frecce train, which has been newly introduced to this route to Italy; and making a connection on to another Frecce train on to Venezia / Venice in Milano Centrale station.

Alternatively if you depart before 13:00 you will be taking a TGV train to Torino Porta Susa station and connecting there into a Frecce train on to Venezia / Venice; though that train from Torino arrives at Venezia Mestre and not at Venezia S. Lucia, which is the station on the Grand Canal.
So to reach the historical heart of Venezia, when departing Paris in the afternoon, a second connection into a local train from Mestre to S.Lucia is required.

Travelling overnight is no longer an option due to the termination of the sleeper train services between Paris and Venezia / Venice

The 'Frecce' trains operated by Trenitalia share the high-speed section of the route between Roma and Bologna, with Italo trains.
They have similar speeds, so the differences between the two services are to do with the on-board experiences, check out the 'Trains' guides below; and the fact that tickets for the Italo trains and Frecce trains can be purchased from different online booking agents - it's a route on which you can save by booking in advance.

However, some trains from Roma to Venice/Venezia take an entirely different and much longer cross-country route.
If ticket price and not speed is your key criteria, you can usually save money by taking these trains and they're a cheaper option for rail pass users; but they are not as frequent as the high speed services.

When heading to Venezia/Venice from Verona by train, there is a choice between taking:

1: The Regional trains, they're more frequent and are generally cheaper than the express trains (they will be when booking last minute at the station).
However, they're also the slower option and seats can't be reserved; though modern, smart double-decked trains are now used on most departures.

2: The express trains, which are faster and seats are assigned when booking, but the speed comes at a price because they tend to be more expensive; though if you can book far enough ahead to snap up the cheapest ticket prices, and won't mind committing in advance to a specific departure, they become the logical choice.

This journey by train from Vienna/Wien to Venice/Venezia is near the top of Europe's must do journeys by train lists.
The two beautiful cities are connected by top tier day and night trains and the route between them is stunning!

Doesn't taking a train from Switzerland to gorgeous Venice/Venezia seem like a fabulously romantic notion?
Well the reality doesn't disappoint and the icing on the cake is that wonderful brand new trains, complete with restaurant cars, are now being used on this route.