Homesick Sicilians have an affordable and sustainable new way to get home for Christmas this year: the Sicilia Express. The sleeper train has been organised for "workers or students...who wish to reach their loved ones to spend the Christmas holidays together" Sicily's regional president Renato Schifani said.

The Sicilia Express will leave Turin in northern Italy just before Christmas, on 21 December, and travel overnight to the island in the south. It will then return to Turin on 5 January, just before the Epiphany which is a bank holiday in Italy.