COSENZA – With the arrival of summer, FlixBus expands routes with the province of Cosenza and Calabria, focusing both on seaside and inland locations. This reflects the company’s desire to facilitate knowledge of the area by supporting a more environmentally friendly approach to travel, based on the use of collective means of transport.
There are over 30 destinations in the Cosentino area that can be reached with FlixBus from large, medium and small Italian centres, in some cases even at night. In the province, the operator’s network extends from the Ionian coast to the Tyrrhenian coast, passing through Pollino, Sila and the Crati Valley, offering itself as an ideal solution for an immersive exploration of the territory. Tickets can be booked from the site, from the app and at physical retailers.
For the whole summer Cosenza it will be connected, among others, with Rome, Messina and Catania up to approximately 30 times a week. Up to 14 weekly connections will be active from the airports of Catania and Rome Fiumicino, with the possibility for those departing overseas to reach Calabria by bus. They will operate up to 14 trips per week to Cosenza also from Palermo, Florence, Milan and Matera.
In addition to the city bus station, FlixBus will also stop at It makesand on many routes it will operate night connections which will allow travelers to optimize their times.
The coasts will also see an increase in routes with cities such as Rome, Naples, Milan, Turin and Bologna: FlixBus will connect Trebisacce, Sibari, Corigliano-Rossano, Mirto Crosia, Pietrapaola, Calopeti, Mandatoriccio And Decayed on the Ionian side e Dove grey, Scalea, Santa Maria del Cedro, Diamond, Maritime Belvedere, Cetraro, Piedmontese Guard, Paola And Fuscaldo on the Tyrrhenian one.
The strengthening of the offer in the Cosenza area is not limited to the areas affected by seaside tourism. In the Pollino area, FlixBus will operate weekly direct connections with Castrovillari, Frascineto, I sign And Mormanno; in the Crati Valley, green buses will continue to provide trips to Acre, Bisignano, Luzzi, Torano Castle, Inlay, Mongrassano And Spezzano Albanese; the operational routes towards the Sila area, where FlixBus reaches, complete the picture San Giovanni in Fiore, Saint George Albanese, Albanian Vaccarizzo And Saint Sophia of Epirus
In addition to encouraging the discovery of lesser-known territories in the region, with these routes FlixBus also aims to contribute to the deconcentration of tourist flows and the promotion of internal areas, recognized by the public debate as possible development hubs for more sustainable lifestyles.
With the strengthening of summer connections, The number of cities in Calabria that can be reached rises to over 50 on board the green buses. Of these, 44 (around 90%) are municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants: by guaranteeing connections also with various smaller centres, FlixBus intends to facilitate people’s movements even towards locations less easily reachable from other regions.
«We believe that an efficient and widespread collective mobility offer can best combine the need for sustainability with that of cost-effectiveness, as well as contributing to creating opportunities for the tourism development of the area», he stated Andrea Incondi, Managing Director of FlixBus Italia. «Also for this summer, in addition to increasing the frequency of connections on the most well-known and popular national routes, we wanted to enhance lesser-known locations in our beautiful country. The variety of our heritage is a priceless wealth, and we believe it is essential to facilitate access even to less frequented centres. In this way we can contribute to highlighting the particularities of the territory by encouraging environmentally friendly forms of travel, with the possibility of generating a spin-off for local economies and encouraging an approach to discovering places that can also benefit the destination communities“, he added Incondi.
How to reconcile sustainability and cost-effectiveness? The bus as a possible solution
If we consider the emission factors in Europe, a personal car produces on average 166 grams of CO2 per passenger per km, while a FlixBus bus is characterized by an average emission factor of only 27.8 grams of CO2 per passenger per km, more than 5 times lower.
By preferring the bus to the car, those who travel will be able to reduce their impact at a low cost. The benefits of this approach to the choice of medium, which combines the needs of sustainability and cost-effectiveness, can be seen above all in the long term: in 2023, those who preferred FlixBus and FlixTrain to other solutions in the over 40 countries where the company operates made it possible to save over 1 million tons of CO2of which 152,000 in Italy alone.
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