FlixBus strengthens its routes in Basilicata this summer: Policoro and Metaponto will be served by over 20 weekly connections with Bari, up to 14 from Palese airport
Milan, 21 June 2024 – With the arrival of summer, FlixBus strengthens the routes with the province of Matera and Basilicata, focusing both on the seaside resorts of the region and on those inland. 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 four destinations in Matera that can be reached with FlixBus from large, medium and small Italian centres, in some cases even at night. In addition to the capital, the operator’s network connects Policoro and Metaponto di Bernalda, along the Ionian coast, and Ferrandina, in the Matera hills, offering itself as an ideal solution for an immersive exploration of the area.
Tickets can be purchased through all the company’s channels: from the website, from the free FlixBus app and from physical retailers throughout Italy.
Throughout the summer Matera will be connected, among others, with Bari, Taranto and Naples approximately 30 times a week and with Rome and Altamura up to 20. Up to 21 trips a week will arrive in Matera from Palese airport, with the possibility for those arriving in the Apulian port from abroad to easily continue their journey in the Lucanian area. Furthermore, up to 14 weekly connections will be operational with many of the main Calabrian cities, such as Cosenza, Catanzaro and Lamezia Terme, and up to seven with some of the major Italian centers, such as Genoa, Florence and Catania.
Similarly, those leaving from Matera will be able to benefit from the available routes with renowned seaside destinations such as Gallipoli or Porto Cesareo.
Along the coast, Policoro and Metaponto will be served by over 20 weekly connections with Bari, up to 14 from Palese airport and up to seven from Naples, Florence and Genoa.
Furthermore, Policoro will be directly connected to Germany, with up to five direct operational connections with cities such as Munich, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.
The picture is completed by the operational routes with Ferrandina, which can be easily reached from cities such as Naples, Salerno and Rome up to six times a week.
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 public debate as possible development hubs for more sustainable lifestyles.[1]
There are a total of nine centers that can be reached on board the green buses in the Lucanian area. Of these, seven are municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants: by guaranteeing connections also with various smaller localities, FlixBus intends to facilitate people’s movements even towards areas 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», stated Andrea Incondi, Managing Director of FlixBus Italia . «For this summer too, 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 », added Incondi.
[Foto e comunicato, fonte: Ufficio Stampa FlixBus]
