Italian trains, end of December

Hi Donna. Best website is trenitalia.com. I checked for 12/29 and see several trains per hour from Florence to Pisa. Note these are regional trains; not bookable online nor is there any reason to do so. (If you are curious about price, pick a day within next 7 days.) Check again and ping me if you still can't see times for last few days of Dec. Enjoy your trip!

Keep trying - on Trenitalia.com (not RailEurope). This is the time of the year that European railroad update their schedules for the next six month, and Italian Rail is always slow.

Italian trains do not shut down for the last days of the year. In fact, Trenitalia runs about 8,000 tran runs a day. Trenitalia runs about 20 runs a day to Pisa from Florence. Almost all trains on this run are Reginale or Regionale Veloce. I can see the runs for mid-February for Verona to Mantova. All are Regionale trains. Regionale trains do not permit seat reservations or booking online. They are like buses on fixed tracks. You buy your ticket, which is an open ticket good for 60 days, validate it before getting on, and then find your own seat. If no seats available, you can stand. Just like a bus. The journey time to Mantova from Verona is about 35 minutes. Here's the link I see. http://orario.trenitalia.com/b2c/nppPriceTravelSolutions.do?car=0&stazin=verona&stazout=mantova&datag=16&datam=02&dataa=2012&timsh=06&stazin_r=Staz_DA&stazout_r=Staz_A&timsm=11&timsm_r=11&lang=en&nreq=5&channel=tcom&npag=1&lang_r=en&nreq_r=5&channel_r=tcom&npag_r=1&x=33&y=9

Thanks so much Bob and Larry! So that explains the mystery about the Regionale NA codes!
Cool!