August’s issue of La Freccia: on the cover, Emanuela Fanelli, host of the Venice film festival
- The actress inaugurates this new role that replaces past editions’ sponsor
- In Venice with Paolo Mereghetti, in Marsala to discover the salt pans, around Italy to look at the stars
- Interviews with Roberto Abbado, Giacomo Ferrara, Mattia Furlani, Alice Guerra and Selvaggia Lucarelli
Rome, 5 August 2025
She achieved success on the big screen thanks to films such as C'è ancora domani, by Paola Cortellesi, and Follemente, by Paolo Genovese. Now Emanuela Fanelli is ready to lead the opening and closing nights of the 82nd Venice Film Festival, on 27 August and 6 September. The actress has accepted her new role as host - replacing the former role of sponsor - with self-mockery and self-awareness, making a courageous change.
Even though change can be difficult, it is sometimes necessary. Just like transforming the Italian railway network through the 1,200 construction sites spread across the nation. Building something is often a nuisance, especially when people are getting around to go on holiday. So, for those who patiently and understandingly choose to travel on the rails, FS Group offers timely communication on travel times and route deviations with QR codes in the train corridors and a detailed map of all the works, like the one attached to this issue of the Freccia.
In any case, the magazine will continue to entertain readers with its travel tips and interviews with leading figures from the world of entertainment and culture. It will take them to Venice, where an exceptional guide, film critic Paolo Mereghetti, accompanies them on an itinerary through the places that have made the history of cinema. Those interested in admiring Italy's most beautiful skies, can travel from Trentino to Campania instead, via the island of Elba, between night-time hikes, visits to observatories and nights with amateur astronomers. Finally, it is possible to descend to Marsala, near Trapani, to discover the thousand-year-old tradition of salt harvesting.
There are plenty of interviews: conductor Roberto Abbado, who, for the 25th Festival Verdi, brings a special version of Otello to the Teatro Regio in Parma; actor Giacomo Ferrara, in the cast of Ogni maledetto Fantacalcio, on Netflix from 27 August; long jump phenomenon Mattia Furlani, awaiting the World Athletics Championships, from 13 to 21 September in Tokyo. And, again, influencer Alice Guerra, out with her new book Non chiamatemi Jessica Fletcher, and journalist Selvaggia Lucarelli, who told the story of Guinean boxer Mohamed Diallo in a documentary.
And on an end note, the cultural events. The exhibition Himera dagli alti dirupi, at Palermo Central Station, narrates life in one of the largest Greek necropolis on Sicilian soil, through the finds that emerged during FS Group's track-doubling works on the Palermo-Messina line. While in Rome, another exhibition reconstructs the millennial pilgrimage to the city of the popes, connecting faith, railways and progress.
All this and more in August’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.