Departure Lounge: Experience a bygone era of travel with a train journey across Italy

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Explore some of this week's best getaway opportunities

Explore some of this week's best getaway opportunities

A bygone era of rail travel

Romance, elegance, nostalgia – the idea of a Grand Tour evokes so many thrilling travel tales of a bygone era. And now a new Italian rail journey, The Grand Tour, aboard the exquisite La Dolce Vita Orient Express, allows you to experience Italy like the cultural elite of old.

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