Sanremo. Meeting Room of the Civic Museum of Palazzo Nota in Sanremo packed yesterday for the presentation by the Esprit Sanremo, Perinaldo and La Cote association of the book by Stefano Alfano and Enrico Nigrelli “Stel. From the Stel to the Riviera Transport: 80 years of trolleybuses in Sanremo. (dea3c editions) Stel.
Esprit spokesman Cavalier Alessio Rossi underlined the importance of remembering an important page of the transport sector
Riviera, which many Sanremo residents would still like to be fully operational at least on the city circuit. Present for Esprt were the vice-president, Dr. Marco Mauro, the members of the Board of Directors, Dr. Maria Laura Vitali and Dr. Vincenzo Mario Farina.
From Stel to Riviera Transport. 80 years of trolleybuses in Sanremo: History of electric transport in Sanremo, from 1913 to today. From the tramway to the modern trolleybus, and the evolution of the network and rolling stock in the decades of the twentieth century and 2000.
The first 80 years of one of the longest and most beautiful trolleybus networks in Italy, the white and blue colors with the hippocampus on the sides have
characterized Stel trolleybuses for more than 40 years.
The book analyzes in detail the network, the operation and all the trolleybus models: from the Fiat 656, which inaugurated the service in 1942 to the renewal of the fleet in the 80s and 90s under the management of Riviera Trasporti, up to the recent Solaris Trollino .
Today the historic Fiat 2411 trolleybus n. 29 of 1958 is the precious witness of the golden era of the Stel. The tram that started electric traction operation in 1913 is not forgotten.
A dive between the past and the recent present looking at the road challenges that were faced starting from the “dreams” of the brothers Vincenzo and Roberto Marsaglia in 1904 when they wanted to give life to the Società Tramvie Elettriche Sanremo – coast, precisely the Stel.
