Once you arrive at Rome Airport, collect your baggage and clear customs, you must transfer to the main Rome train station, Rome Termini. From Rome Termini, there are trains direct to Assisi.
The Leonardo Express Train from Fiumicino Airport (FCO) to Rome Termini (Main Train Station) runs 7 days a week at 5 and 35 minutes past the hour.
Price: €11 (one way)
Direct train times from Rome Termini to Assisi are listed below. Tickets may be bought at automatic booths at the train station.
Depart Rome Arrive Assisi
12:12—14:27
13:42—15:32
18:12—20:27
There are also indirect trains from Rome Termini to Assisi; for more information please visit http://www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html
Once you arrive at Assisi, cabs are available to La Cittadella or you hotel. Alternatively you can take the Bus Line C (Assisi-PZZA GARIBALDI)
Trains run daily from the Pisa Airport (PSA) to Florence. Price: €5,40 (one way) For more info please visit http://orario.trenitalia.com/b2c/TimeTable
Direct train times from Florence SMN to Assisi are listed below.
Depart Florence Arrive Assisi
8:09—10:40
12:09—14:40
14:09—16:41
18:09—20:40
There are also indirect trains from Florence to Assisi; for more information please visit http://www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html
Once you arrive at Assisi, cabs are available to La Cittadella or you hotel. Alternatively you can take the Bus Line C (Assisi-PZZA GARIBALDI)
Driving directions to Assisi: http://www.assisionline.com/arriasus.html
To get driving directions using Mapquest or Google, indicate the airport as Fiumicino, Italy
Parking: La Cittadella offers private parking spaces at €4 per day. 20 free parking spaces are available near La Cittadella with "Permesso di sosta card" ("permission to park card") from Cittadella on a first come, first served basis.
Car rental
Avis: http://www.avis.com Airport code is FCO
Europcar: http://www2.europcar.com Enter: ROME FIUMICINO AIRPORT
Hertz: https://www.hertz.com Airport code is FCO
Maggiore: http://www.maggiore.it/eng/master_eng.htm This website has limited English, however, National Car Rental is a partner of Maggiore, with a more accessible website. http://www.nationalcar.com/
General information about getting to Assisi by train: http://www.assisionline.com/treniasus.html
See Trenitalia web site for schedules http://www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html
Enter Fiumicino Aeroporto as the departure location.
The Metropolitan trains from the airport to Rome's Tiburtina Station take about 45 minutes. In addition there is an express train called "Leonardo Express" which travels only from the airport to the main train station in Rome,
Termini Station and takes about 30 minutes. This one is more expensive than the metropolitan train, and takes you to the same line to Assisi one stop earlier. The Trenitalia website will show both options.
From Rome the train to Assisi takes about 2 hours; some have another change at Foligno. There are many trains to Assisi every day.
Remember to get your train ticket stamped in a yellow validation machine just before using it.
In Assisi, the train station is at the bottom of the hill about three miles from the center of town. Bus line "C" (ASSISI - P.ZZA MATTEOTTI-FS-P.ZZA GARIBALDI) will take you the rest of the way. Or take a taxi.
There are daily bus connections from Rome's Fiumicino Airport (International Departure Terminal "C") to Assisi (Piazza San Pietro). For a bus schedule in English, see http://www.sulga.it/autolinee/linee/orario.asp?ID=3
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