Rome, 2 November 2026
He doesn’t chase after ideas. He waits for them to find him. Fiorello’s shows stem from inspirational concepts, while he continues to take over the audience, with gems such as La pennicanza, on Rai Radio 2, and La nottatanza, a late-night version broadcast on Rai 1. Always ready to take on new challenges, he explores new forms of expression and new horizons, driven by curiosity and the desire to have fun.
His approach is similar to those who, setting off on a journey, board a train and let themselves be amazed by what they see. That’s the same attitude we should adopt when we go to the cinema. Actor Massimiliano Caiazzo rendered this analogy when presenting FS Group and Fondazione FS Italiane’s new ad, at the Rome Film Festival on 19 October. His monologue, Ogni viaggio è una storia (Every Journey is a Story), opens the November issue of La Freccia, capturing its central theme.
Focus of this issue is travel, understood also as a transformational experience. And travel you can across Italy, taking part in the ‘Strade maestre’ project, where secondary school pupils spend a year on the road, combining outdoor lessons with nights under the stars. Then, a literary trail takes us past the house-museums of writers, from Luigi Pirandello’s home in Agrigento to Giosué Carducci’s residence in Bologna. Finally, we head to Florence, searching for those restaurants that are re-imagining the local culinary tradition with a plant-based twist.
Don’t miss the interviews with leading personalities in entertainment and culture. Salvatore Esposito, star of season 2 of Piedone – Uno sbirro a Napoli. Paolo Conticini, at the Sistina Theatre in Rome from 17 December in the musical Mamma Mia! Silvia Salemi, intent on staging La voce nel cassetto. Soprano Eleonora Buratto, set to open La Scala’s season in Milan on 7 December as Desdemona in Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello. And Chiara Gamberale, whose novel Liberi tutti explores the emotional wounds of adults as seen through the eyes of children.
And on an end note, the cultural events. In Milan, an exhibition explores Salvador Dalí’s relationship with fashion. In Rome, over 70 works trace the Wassily Kandinsky’s creative stages. In Florence, Broken. Il potere del frammento, explores the power of incomplete sculpture. Meanwhile, in Bari, Picasso. Lo sguardo rivoluzionario traces the artist’s career, from technical experimentation to the creation of new artistic languages.
All this and more in the November issue of La Freccia, available in digital format on FS Italiane and in print on Trenitalia’s Frecce trains, in the FrecciaLounge and in FrecciaClub.