Undoubtedly, this isn’t the best moment to use public transports in Italy, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it. When it comes to romantic transport, fit for literature and movies,  trains are  king, but we Italians are attached to something else too, to our old  street cars. 

Street cars were  once common a bit everywhere in the country, but today are active only in a handful of cities, including Turin, Milan, Trieste, Rome, Florence, Naples, Palermo, Padova, Venezia, Bergamo and Messina. Many may wonder what’s the big deal with trams,  because “aren’t they just a mix between a bus and a train, in the end?” Well, somehow that’s true, they are: they travel on tracks just like trains and are moved by electricity, but they do look like buses and  operate in towns and cities just like them.