Rome, 3 March 2025
Making the most of difficulties in order to evolve and start again. This is the path that Lorenzo Cherubini, aka Jovanotti, tells readers of the March edition of La Freccia. After a cycling accident in 2023, the subsequent operation, hospital stay and a lot of physiotherapy, the singer-songwriter is back on stage with a new autobiographical album and the PalaJova tour, for which Frecciarossa is the Official Train. Evolution is also the keyword of the FS Group's Infrastructure Modernisation Plan, which with courage and vision, will lead our country's rail transport system towards a more functional and efficient future.
Visionary is also the name of the project of the American artist Bill Fontana who, through an installation realised with the support of the FS Group, transforms the muted echoes of St. Peter's Campanone into an immersive acoustic work to be listened to while walking along the portico of the Basilica.
Rome also hosts the Acea Run Rome The Marathon, now in its 30th edition. While in England, the women's national rugby team, for which Frecciarossa is the Official Train, plays the first match of the Six Nations tournament.
March is synonymous with spring. The perfect season to discover Gorizia and the Slovenian Nova Gorica, two border towns united by a common history and nominated European Capital of Cross-border Culture for 2025. The months leading up to summer are ideal for visiting Italy following the itineraries suggested by the British Financial Times between the excavations of Pompeii, Palladian villas and a trip on board the La Dolce Vita Orient Express train. While a tour of Florence's independent bookshops will help you discover a less touristy and more authentic city at a slow pace.
There is no shortage of interviews with the stars of show business and culture, such as Simone Cristicchi and the Coma_Cose duo, fresh from their success at Sanremo, literary populariser Edoardo Prati, who is touring theatres with Cantami d'amore, and writer Lorenza Pieri, one of the jurors of the literary competition for newcomers organised by the FS Group in collaboration with the Turin International Book Fair.
Lastly, appointments dedicated to art. In Rome, the Ara Pacis Museum hosts the exhibition Franco Fontana. Retrospective, which traces the master's career through his brilliantly coloured shots. The Gallerie d'Italia in Turin pays tribute to the photographer Olivo Barbieri with a monographic exhibition on his work in China. At the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Art Déco. Il trionfo della modernità celebrates the movement one hundred years after its birth, and a complementary exhibition by the Fondazione FS narrates the Royal Pavilion at the Central Station.
All this and more in March’s La Freccia, available in digital format on FS Italiane and in take-away print magazine on Trenitalia Frecce trains, in the FRECCIALounge and in FRECCIAClubs.